The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protect mode support in the original Windows 3.0 was basically a 1-man skunkworks project
  

  historical windows
  

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• Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit
  

  networking
  

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• The errors of TeX
  

  pdf historical practices
  

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• The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad
  

  rant
  

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• qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt
  

  browsers
  

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• React 19 is now stable
  

  javascript release web
  

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• Galloping Search
  

  programming
  

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• How a solar Minecraft server is changing the way we play video games
  

  education games
  

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• Designing a const `array::from_fn` in stable Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Intuition in Software Development
  

  philosophy
  

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• How do I pay the publisher of a web page?
  

  finance web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Firefox is the superior browser
  

  browsers
  

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• Writing down (and searching through) every UUID
  

  math programming
  

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• Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
  

  distributed
  

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• Advent of Criminally Bad Ruby Code
  

  ruby
  

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• The Biggest Shell Programs in the World (wiki)
  

  programming unix
  

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• Turn Android Phone to Batteryless Home Server
  

  hardware
  

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• Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing
  

  databases historical
  

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• Debian opens a can of username worms
  

  linux
  

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• Box64 v0.3.2 and Box86 v0.3.8 released
  

  assembly games linux
  

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• Understanding the Odin Programming Language
  

  book programming
  

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• funding.json - an open manifest for describing financial requirements for FOSS projects
  

  a11y practices
  

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• Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia [2018]
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 07, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Maliciously crafted GitHub branch name embeds crypto miner into a released package
  

  security
  

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• How to Pronounce Chinese Names a Little Better
  

  culture
  

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• Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo
  

  osdev vcs
  

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• frood, an Alpine initramfs NAS
  

  devops linux
  

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• A simple live calculator with tree-sitter + cranelift jit
  

  programming rust
  

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• Flightle – Web-based 2D sidescrolling flight simulator
  

  show games
  

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• NASA Graphics Design Manual (1976)
  

  pdf design
  

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• Breakage! in the Cargo.toml — How Rust Package Features Work (And Break)
  

  release rust
  

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• Reversing Anti-Cheat's Detection-Generation Cycle With Configurable Hallucinations
  

  games
  

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• Start With the Go Standard Library
  

  go
  

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• Launching the 2024 State of Rust Survey
  

  rust
  

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• You can’t get more adversarial than PvP MMORPGs
  

  games security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 06, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Keyset Cursors, Not Offsets, for Postgres Pagination
  

  databases
  

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• Praise to scdoc to generate man pages
  

  unix
  

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• What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser?
  

  ask meta
  

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• The "simple" 38 step journey to getting an RFC
  

  networking
  

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• Alpine Linux 3.21
  

  linux release
  

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• First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new llm-bedrock plugin)
  

  ai
  

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• The Cloud Container Iceberg
  

  devops
  

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• Structured binding upgrades in C++26
  

  c++
  

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• Advent Of Code 2024 in Nix - Day 01-03
  

  nix
  

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• The Hoare Cube
  

  formalmethods
  

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• The Art of the Propagator
  

  lisp plt programming
  

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• PyMyFlySpy: track your flight using its headrest data
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 05, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Egoless Engineering
  

  scaling
  

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• Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here! - Phoenix Blog
  

  elixir release
  

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• A Brief Introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby
  

  c compilers ruby rust
  

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• The Tube Computer: wall-mounted 8-bit homebrew computer from vintage thermionic valves
  

  hardware historical retrocomputing
  

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• Transferring Python Build Standalone Stewardship to Astral
  

  python
  

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• Rust9x update: Rust 1.84.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust
  

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• Precomputation
  

  compsci
  

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• The Return of Procedural Programming
  

  video historical plt
  

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• New era of slop security reports for open source
  

  ai security
  

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• The Next Generation of the Heroku Platform
  

  devops
  

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• Designing Wild's incremental linking
  

  compilers
  

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