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

  compilers plt
  

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• Rosetta Code
  

  programming
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nix - Death by a thousand cuts
  

  nix
  

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• Don't Use Session (Signal Fork)
  

  security
  

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• The people should own the town square
  

  culture
  

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• Justified Text: Better Than Expected?
  

  css design
  

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• Use cases for <form method="dialog">
  

  web
  

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• Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
  

  historical programming
  

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• YJIT 3.4: Even Faster and More Memory-Efficient
  

  compilers ruby
  

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• The best laptop ever
  

  hardware mac
  

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• The gen auto-trait problem
  

  plt rust
  

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• BASIC Star Trek Games
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• DoomPDF
  

  pdf games
  

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• Thunderbolt ports aren’t all the same
  

  hardware mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fluid Simulation Pendant
  

  art hardware
  

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• Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
  

  vcs
  

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• Usable DOS-based live USB media, for distraction-free writing
  

  show release retrocomputing
  

  Comments
• RP2350 Hacking Challenge results
  

  hardware security
  

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• Radical CS
  

  pdf cryptography practices
  

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• Grist - a modern relational spreadsheet
  

  databases visualization
  

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• The missing tier for query compilers
  

  databases
  

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• RSYNC: 6 vulnerabilities
  

  security
  

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• The Campsite codebase is now source available
  

  ruby
  

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• Split Out Unrelated Changes
  

  practices
  

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• Go 1.24 interactive tour
  

  go
  

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• Haiku Activity & Contract Report, December 2024 (ft. Iceweasel)
  

  osdev
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments
  

  security
  

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• Creator of Ghostty talks Zig over Go
  

  video go zig
  

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• From ASCII to ASIC: Porting donut.c to a tiny slice of silicon
  

  graphics hardware
  

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• Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study
  

  games retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Running LLMs on the Nintendo Switch
  

  ai graphics hardware
  

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• proposal: spec: reduce error handling boilerplate using ?
  

  go
  

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• Enlightenment 0.27.0 Release
  

  graphics release
  

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• Doug Lenat's source code for AM and EURISKO
  

  ai historical lisp
  

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• quicknotes: A notes application that makes taking notes... quick
  

  show rust
  

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• Derivative grammars: a symbolic approach to parsing with derivatives
  

  pdf plt
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes
  

  historical unix
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I Chose Common Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• The Most Elegant Configuration Language
  

  ml plt
  

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• niri v25.01 released
  

  linux release
  

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• Today I learned that bash has hashmaps
  

  unix
  

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• boreDOM: another boring JS framework
  

  javascript
  

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• All Your Codebase: C/C++ projects for the Zig build system
  

  c c++ zig
  

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• 2025 Predictions
  

  programming
  

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• Viewing images
  

  graphics
  

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• Replicated KV store in Rust using a shared log service
  

  databases distributed rust
  

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• Release UCM Desktop v1.0.0
  

  distributed elm release
  

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• Comptime as Configuration
  

  zig
  

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• Highlights from Git 2.48
  

  vcs
  

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