The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 39C3: To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG & friends
  

  security
  

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• Replacing JS with just HTML
  

  web
  

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• Release age v1.3.0: post-quantum (and more)
  

  cryptography release
  

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• On LLMs in programming
  

  vibecoding
  

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• gpg.fail
  

  video cryptography security
  

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• Goodbye Sass
  

  web
  

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• The production bug that made me care about undefined behavior
  

  c++
  

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• You can't design software you don't work on
  

  practices
  

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• CVE-2025-14847: MongoBleed
  

  databases security
  

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• Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
  

  retrocomputing windows
  

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• Easel Turns One! One year of building my own IDE in Clojure
  

  clojure editors
  

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• MongoBleed explained simply
  

  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 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How uv got so fast
  

  performance
  

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• TIL: serde's borrowing can be treacherous
  

  rust
  

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• Are Two Heads Better Than One?
  

  math
  

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• Writing an NES emulator in Haskell
  

  haskell retrocomputing
  

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• I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
  

  culture hardware
  

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• Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4
  

  security
  

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• Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
  

  performance python
  

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• When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions
  

  hardware openbsd
  

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• One formula that demystifies 3D graphics
  

  video education graphics
  

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• The Algebra of Loans in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Ancient Greek geometry
  

  design games math
  

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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 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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