The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Does current AI represent a dead end?
  

  ai practices
  

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• Perfect Desk
  

  design freebsd
  

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• Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato
  

  api graphics networking release unix
  

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• CobolCraft: A Minecraft server written in COBOL
  

  programming
  

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• Debugging memory corruption: Who wrote ‘2’ into my stack?
  

  debugging
  

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• The Matrix Holiday Special 2024
  

  distributed
  

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• The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
  

  cogsci
  

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• sudo-rs: A memory safe implementation of sudo and su
  

  rust security unix
  

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• Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
  

  ai math
  

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• Chimera Linux Entering beta
  

  linux
  

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• Running NetBSD 10.1 on a 1998 Toshiba laptop
  

  netbsd retrocomputing
  

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• Electronics Test Gear on the Cheap
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 27, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ghostty 1.0
  

  release
  

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• Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
  

  api web
  

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• 150 papers for Software Engineers
  

  compsci distributed programming
  

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• Lua is so underrated
  

  lua
  

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• what's some of your favorite software?
  

  ask culture
  

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• Into CPS, never to return
  

  compilers lisp plt
  

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• One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj
  

  games vcs zig
  

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• Accurate Timekeeping in a DAW (2022)
  

  programming
  

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• Seconds Since the Epoch
  

  unix
  

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• USB-C head-to-head comparison
  

  hardware
  

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• How I debugged a 2 year old "fake debugged" multithreading bug
  

  debugging python
  

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• I Thought I Found a Bug…
  

  c historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jujutsu Megamerges and jj absorb
  

  vcs
  

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• Ruby 3.4.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• 38C3 lobste.rs meetup
  

  event
  

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• Minimal Version Selection Revisited
  

  practices
  

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• ncurses-rs has been archived
  

  rust
  

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• AI-generated tools can make programming more fun
  

  ai
  

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• What custom keyboard or layout are you using?
  

  ask hardware
  

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• Tiny challenges for learning WebAssembly
  

  wasm
  

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• Symbolic Execution by Overloading __bool__
  

  formalmethods python
  

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• 2024 State of the Adélie Linux Distribution
  

  linux
  

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• Cashing in on GIF by charging royalties
  

  historical
  

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• Serpent OS Enters Alpha
  

  linux release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Merry Everything and Happy Holidays my favorite crustaceans
  

  meta
  

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• From Nix to Eos
  

  nix practices
  

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• A worked example of copy-and-patch compilation
  

  compilers plt
  

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• twice: chrome extension asking you to think twice when visit social media sites
  

  show browsers web
  

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• Controlling Nondeterminism in Model-Based Tests with Prophecy Variables
  

  databases formalmethods testing
  

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• Application blackbox
  

  debugging linux
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Problem Driven Development
  

  practices programming
  

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• Debian’s approach to Rust - Dependency handling (2022)
  

  practices rust
  

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• Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think
  

  practices
  

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• Hacking Life into My Little Counter
  

  hardware
  

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• Lock Files Considered Harmful
  

  practices
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My colleague Julius
  

  philosophy
  

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• How many links overlap between Lobste.rs and HN?
  

  meta culture
  

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• C++ Is An Absolute Blast
  

  c++ plt
  

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• How Many Hours Can You Code?
  

  practices
  

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• Unnecessary Optimization in Rust: Hamming Distances, SIMD, and Auto-Vectorization
  

  performance rust
  

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• Hello emacs.tv
  

  emacs
  

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• A Tour of WebAuthn
  

  cryptography web
  

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• UIs Should Be Versioned, Just Like We Version APIs
  

  design
  

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• Making a Trello clone using htmx
  

  web
  

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• Debu.gs: Try Inferno without Installing It
  

  historical osdev
  

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• sqlite.directory
  

  databases
  

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• Cramming scrapscript into msgpack
  

  distributed networking plt web
  

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