The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
  

  culture
  

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• Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
  

  css web
  

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• UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah
  

  historical unix
  

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• Rust’s Block Pattern
  

  rust
  

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• Pedagogy Recommendations
  

  education
  

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• What do people love about Rust?
  

  rust
  

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• Building a Transparent Keyserver
  

  cryptography
  

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• 8-bit Boléro (the world’s most ambitious chiptune?)
  

  audio video art hardware retrocomputing
  

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• A love letter to Raycast
  

  mac
  

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• When Scope Lies: The Wildcard Pattern Drop Footgun in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The scariest boot loader code
  

  hardware netbsd openbsd
  

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• Backing up Spotify
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers?
  

  performance rant
  

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• I Tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I Get the Hype
  

  gleam programming
  

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• The state of the kernel Rust experiment
  

  linux rust
  

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• VACUUM Is a Lie: About Your Indexes
  

  databases
  

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• YOCaml a framework used to describe static site generator
  

  ml web
  

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• 50 years of proof assistants
  

  compsci historical
  

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• The Typeframe PX-88 Portable Computing System
  

  hardware
  

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• The (Mostly) Complete Unicode Spiral (2022)
  

  art
  

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• Concrete syntax matters, actually
  

  video plt
  

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• Django: what’s new in 6.0
  

  python
  

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• I couldn't find a logging library that worked for my library, so I made one
  

  javascript
  

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• async dns
  

  c networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• bidicalc: a bidirectional calculator
  

  math
  

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• Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers
  

  web
  

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• Oils 0.37.0 - Alpine Linux, YSH, and mycpp
  

  release unix
  

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• Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder
  

  linux
  

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• Being a SysAdmin is hard
  

  devops networking
  

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• Building smaller Docker images faster
  

  devops performance
  

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• Google’s code review practices
  

  practices
  

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• Cosmic Desktop is a fantastic first draft
  

  video linux
  

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• Freeing a Xiaomi Humidifier from the Cloud
  

  hardware
  

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• Rethinking sudo with object capabilities
  

  security unix
  

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• Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
  

  programming rant
  

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• Pop goes the...population count?
  

  assembly compilers
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
  

  linux rust
  

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• How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
  

  ai visualization
  

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• New tag suggestion: "genai-assisted"
  

  meta
  

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• Stop Breaking TLS
  

  rant security
  

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• You Don't Need an ORM
  

  video databases gleam
  

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• My favourite small hash table
  

  c
  

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• Size of Life
  

  art science
  

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• Do Not Optimize Away
  

  performance
  

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• Gin is a very bad software library
  

  go rant web
  

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• Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler"
  

  compilers
  

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• Linux kernel version numbers
  

  linux
  

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• Maybe we don't need a server
  

  privacy
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`
  

  browsers security web
  

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• Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
  

  design mac
  

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• potential security breach in syncthing-fork
  

  android security
  

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• Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness
  

  concatenative programming
  

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• One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics
  

  hardware historical unix
  

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• F35 Fighter Jet’s C++ Coding Standards
  

  pdf c++
  

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• The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to
  

  culture web
  

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• Practical guide to XHTML (2021)
  

  web
  

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• From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Nova Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• 150.000 nodes in a Virtual DOM? No problem
  

  video web
  

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