The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The fizzbuzz that did not get me the job
  

  javascript plt programming
  

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• wild: A very fast linker for Linux
  

  performance
  

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• Life pro tip: Oracle Linux is the best local VM for MacBooks
  

  linux mac
  

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• Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
  

  editors
  

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• What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
  

  ai
  

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• SDL 3.2.0
  

  release
  

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• The Drunken Plagiarists - Working with Co-pilots
  

  ai rant
  

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• TabBoo: Add random jumpscares to sites you're trying to avoid
  

  web
  

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• December Project Goals Update
  

  rust
  

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• VIC-20 Elite
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• buzz 0.5.0 release
  

  plt zig
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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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 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 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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