The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
  

  design ios mac
  

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• Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026
  

  email security
  

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• How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
  

  culture vcs
  

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• 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
  

  practices
  

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• Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
  

  databases
  

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• Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1
  

  hardware reversing
  

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• Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them
  

  rust
  

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• Go 1.26 interactive tour
  

  go
  

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• Utopian Scholastic
  

  philosophy
  

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• 4 Ways to Improve A Perfect Join Algorithm
  

  databases
  

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• Decorative Cryptography
  

  cryptography security
  

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• CheriBSD: FreeBSD that takes advantage of CHERI
  

  freebsd osdev security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?
  

  assembly performance rust
  

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• Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes To Midnight
  

  osdev release
  

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• pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken
  

  vcs
  

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• Play the Monty Hall game
  

  games math
  

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• 39C3: Power Cycles Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Simplifying the build process for vst3-rs
  

  rust
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• This PNG will show different version if you open it in Chrome than in Safari
  

  graphics
  

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• Show: Twine - A tool to dynamically trace calls in production Elixir systems
  

  show elixir
  

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• Automating What Backblaze Lifecycle Rules Don't Do Instantly
  

  devops linux nix systemd
  

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• QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop Brings QNX 8.0 To A Wayland + Xfce Desktop
  

  osdev
  

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• From Intent to Proof: Dafny Verification for Web Apps
  

  formalmethods
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
  

  performance programming vcs
  

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• Gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025
  

  gleam
  

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• Ruby 4.0.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• ssh tiny.christmas
  

  art
  

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• Newtype Index Pattern In Zig
  

  zig
  

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• phoenix - A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
  

  graphics
  

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• cjanet
  

  c lisp
  

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• The HTML Elements Time Forgot
  

  historical web
  

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• (My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)
  

  games linux
  

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• Avoid mini-frameworks
  

  programming
  

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• Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
  

  video cryptography distributed math
  

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• Wayback 0.3 Released
  

  linux release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
  

  plt vibecoding
  

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• I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants
  

  practices
  

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• Debian’s git transition
  

  linux vcs
  

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• I Program on the Subway
  

  programming
  

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• Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
  

  debugging
  

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• What’s new in Python 3.15
  

  python
  

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• Lua 5.5 Released
  

  lua release
  

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• ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun
  

  programming
  

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• Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java
  

  compilers emacs java
  

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• An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker
  

  linux
  

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• Inverse parentheses
  

  plt
  

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• The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
  

  retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• i'm just having fun
  

  art person
  

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• "Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
  

  security
  

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• November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and more
  

  browsers
  

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• Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++
  

  show c++ rust
  

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• Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git (2024)
  

  rust vcs
  

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• D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop
  

  linux rant
  

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• "Are you the one?" is free money
  

  math
  

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• No Graphics API
  

  graphics
  

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• TLA+ modeling tips
  

  distributed formalmethods
  

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• Rust GCC backend: Why and how
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Torvalds On Linux Security Modules
  

  linux security
  

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• ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server
  

  python release
  

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