The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Your favorite pieces of technical writing?
  

  ask meta
  

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• I'm returning my Framework 16
  

  hardware
  

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• They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)
  

  historical mac
  

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• cpu: cpu command in Go, inspired by the Plan 9 cpu command
  

  go osdev
  

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• An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape
  

  retrocomputing unix
  

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• folder.zone: Share end-to-end encrypted folders live
  

  show cryptography web
  

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• Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode
  

  c unix
  

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• dirlock
  

  linux
  

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• Reproducing the NixOS 25.11 Minimal Installation ISO
  

  nix
  

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• Vigil - A clean, fast build watcher for Zig (inspired by Bacon for Rust)
  

  show zig
  

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• The wonder of MSBuild
  

  dotnet
  

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• How and why I moved from Apple Services to my own server
  

  linux
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc
  

  show web
  

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• I foretold that Mac app notarization is security theater
  

  mac security
  

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• What's "new" in Miri (and also, there's a Miri paper!)
  

  rust
  

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• mquickjs: Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine
  

  javascript
  

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• FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update
  

  freebsd
  

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• Email Simplicity vs Decentralized Chat
  

  ask email networking
  

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• Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
  

  databases osdev
  

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• From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality in Lean 4
  

  compsci formalmethods
  

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• The Linux kernel is just a program
  

  go linux
  

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• Are we Loong yet?
  

  hardware
  

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• Introducing Open Forms
  

  release
  

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• Proposed Rust kernel extensions in place of eBPF
  

  linux rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
  

  a11y rant
  

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• Tag proposal: decentralization
  

  meta
  

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• Ruby's website got an overhaul
  

  design ruby
  

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• Go feature: Modernized go fix
  

  go
  

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• I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
  

  networking
  

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• The atomic time scale at NIST Boulder has failed
  

  devops networking
  

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• How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers
  

  web
  

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• dumbphone journey -- eight month update
  

  philosophy privacy
  

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• romforth: Ultra Portable, Small, Baremetal Forth for various processors
  

  concatenative
  

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• Granule, a statically-typed linear functional language with graded modal types
  

  plt
  

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• ARIN IPv4 misissue incident
  

  devops networking
  

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• Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers
  

  go
  

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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 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go ahead, self-host Postgres
  

  databases devops
  

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• how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick
  

  web
  

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• WireGuard® implementation written in Rust
  

  cryptography networking rust
  

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• I got hacked, my server started mining Monero this morning
  

  devops security
  

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• dogalog: Prolog-based livecoding music environment
  

  art vibecoding
  

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• Help my website is too small
  

  satire web
  

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• Making the Most of Bit Arrays
  

  gleam
  

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• Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how?
  

  ai
  

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• Booleans don't exist in Ruby (2022)
  

  ruby
  

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• headson: head/tail for structured data - summarize/preview JSON/YAML and source code
  

  rust
  

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• Remote code execution via ND6 Router Advertisements
  

  freebsd security
  

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• Partial inlining
  

  compilers performance
  

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