The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xfce 4.20 released

  release

  Comments
• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal

  distributed performance

  Comments
• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?

  plt

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• Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64

  historical

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• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG

  cryptography

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• Solving Advent of Code at Compile Time with Rust Macros

  rust

  Comments
• Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024

  hardware

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• Swift Language focus areas heading into 2025

  swift

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• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf

  networking ruby video web

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• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection

  compsci plt rust

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• Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables (2019)

  performance rust

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• Now we’re all Forked

  swift

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SCCS roach motel

  vcs

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• Luon high-level programming language similar to Oberon+, integrating concepts from Lua, and targeting the LuaJIT VM

  lua

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• Ki, a multi-cursor structural editor

  editors

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• Auth bypass in Go SSH package

  go security

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• In search of a faster SQLite

  databases

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• When should we require that firmware be free?

  law

  Comments
• Security Review for Mullvad VPN

  pdf security

  Comments
• When Your Webcam Doesn’t Work: Solving Firefox and PipeWire Issues

  browsers linux

  Comments
• Algorithms for high performance terminal apps

  design

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• A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal

  historical

  Comments
• Rust's incremental compiler architecture

  rust

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• TRELLIS: Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation

  ai art

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Jujutsu version control system

  vcs

  Comments
• "Rules" that terminal programs follow

  unix

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• 3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash."

  practices release

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• Majjit LSP

  vcs

  Comments
• Cursor Size Problems In Wayland, Explained

  linux

  Comments
• Helix: Why (And How) I Use It

  editors

  Comments
• The Humble For Loop in Rust

  practices rust

  Comments
• C++ exception performance three years later

  c++ performance

  Comments
• Things You Never Wanted To Know About Go Interfaces

  compilers go

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• API Design of X (Twitter) Home Timeline

  programming

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• Less talk, more code

  practices

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• Programmers want flow. when programming, light turns RED

  culture show

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Non-temporal store heuristics on the Apple M2

  hardware performance

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• NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git

  rust vcs

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• gtk3-classic: Patches to bring back a traditional experience for GTK+3

  linux

  Comments
• The Humble For Loop in JavaScript

  javascript practices

  Comments
• FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations

  hardware law

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• A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2

  ai programming

  Comments
• Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined

  c

  Comments
• the return of glfighters: porting a 23-year-old game to webassembly

  games retrocomputing wasm

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• Ad-Hoc Effects in Rust

  plt rust

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• Thoughts on Rust hashing

  performance rust

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• proposal: spec: finite type set interface as union type · Issue #70752 · golang/go

  go

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• Keepin’ the Power Mac G5 running cool: What worked for me

  mac

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 12, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should?

  api

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• Forced to upgrade

  hardware

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• All Your Codebase

  c c++ zig

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• Mozilla Firefox removes "Do Not Track"

  browsers privacy

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• A brief history of Mac servers

  historical mac

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• The Google Willow thing

  programming

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• Rails is better low code than low code

  ruby

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• The new Vim project - What has changed after Bram

  video vim

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• Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID)

  web

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• How to Actually Migrate Complex Systems in Infrastructure

  devops

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• Binary Versioning 1.0.0

  practices satire

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• Render README.org as HTML on Sourcehut

  emacs

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