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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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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