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
  

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• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
  

  distributed performance
  

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• 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
  

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• 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
  

  video networking ruby 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
  

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• Security Review for Mullvad VPN
  

  pdf security
  

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

  browsers linux
  

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• 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
  

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• 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
  

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• "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
  

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• Cursor Size Problems In Wayland, Explained
  

  linux
  

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• Helix: Why (And How) I Use It
  

  editors
  

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• The Humble For Loop in Rust
  

  practices rust
  

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• C++ exception performance three years later
  

  c++ performance
  

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• 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
  

  show culture
  

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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
  

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• The Humble For Loop in JavaScript
  

  javascript practices
  

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• 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
  

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

  c
  

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• 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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