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

• OpenAI quietly funded independent math benchmark before setting record with o3
  

  ai
  

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• The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
  

  historical rant
  

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• Automatic Server Reloading in Rust on Change
  

  rust
  

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• When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition
  

  compsci formalmethods
  

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• dinit: Service monitoring / "init" system
  

  linux
  

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• Hash Design and Goodhart's Law
  

  compsci math performance
  

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• Poisoning AI scraper responses with Versara
  

  release web
  

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• Migrating away from bcachefs
  

  linux
  

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• Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM card with Android and Linux
  

  hardware linux
  

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• The surprising struggle to get a UNIX Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++
  

  c c++ programming unix
  

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• Encrypted NixOS home server with passwordless reboot
  

  linux nix
  

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• Yet Another Perl-Powered Company: Geolytica
  

  perl
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing Lix 2.92 "Bombe glacée"
  

  nix release
  

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• 2D Syntax
  

  lisp
  

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• Moving on from React, a Year Later
  

  javascript
  

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• Woodpecker CI v3.0.0 release
  

  release
  

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• Block AI scrapers with Anubis
  

  ai release web
  

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• Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products
  

  ai security
  

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• Dillo release 3.2.0
  

  browsers release
  

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• Thoughts On A Month With Devin
  

  ai
  

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• The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Podcast: Type Theory Forall
  

  audio ml plt
  

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• Rust Coreutils 0.0.29 release
  

  release rust
  

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• Preventing data races with Pony
  

  plt programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Comic Mono
  

  editors
  

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• Cheatsheet for jj's builtin diff editor
  

  vcs
  

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• Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
  

  hardware security
  

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• Git Trailers
  

  devops release vcs
  

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• Project MINI RACK - a Homelab Revolution
  

  video hardware networking
  

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• Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv
  

  python
  

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• Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
  

  c databases
  

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• Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet
  

  security
  

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• How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
  

  math unix
  

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• Wasm GC isn’t ready for realtime graphics
  

  graphics lisp wasm web
  

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• Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness
  

  cogsci graphics
  

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• isd (interactive systemd) — a better way to work with systemd units
  

  linux python systemd
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Earthstar
  

  distributed
  

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• How I think about Zig and Rust
  

  rust zig
  

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• core.async.flow Rationale
  

  clojure
  

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• What to Expect from Release Month (0.14.0)
  

  zig
  

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• A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
  

  security
  

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• Prototyping in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025
  

  culture event
  

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• Announcing Six Day and IP Address Certificate Options in 2025
  

  security
  

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• Hands-on graphics without X11
  

  netbsd
  

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• Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 1)
  

  linux lisp nix
  

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• Improve Rust Compile Time by 108X
  

  rust
  

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• Private Keys in the Fortigate Leak
  

  cryptography security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nepenthes, a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers
  

  ai
  

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• Is Memory64 actually worth using?
  

  wasm
  

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• The DIY FOSS cyborg
  

  hardware linux
  

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• Fenwick Trees are Awesome
  

  programming
  

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• Using PCBs to create front panels for your projects
  

  hardware
  

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• Rosetta Code
  

  programming
  

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• The mess that is handling structure arguments and returns in LLVM
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Branchless UTF-8 Encoding
  

  programming rust
  

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• Async Rust is about concurrency, not (just) performance
  

  rust
  

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• The untouched goldmine of F#
  

  dotnet ml
  

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• Django vs. FastAPI, An Honest Comparison
  

  python
  

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• Landing the Nostromo
  

  fortran historical
  

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