The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
  

  databases historical
  

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• I still believe in the bicycle for your mind, and this is my ride
  

  linux
  

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• The web is too big, or scaling down
  

  web
  

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• Fabrice Bellard's ts_sms: Short Message Compression using LLM
  

  ai
  

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• lmno.lol - Drag and drop blogging minus the yucky bits of the modern web
  

  show web
  

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• Flame graphs can hide small overheads with big overall impact
  

  performance
  

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• How Multi-User Dungeons Taught Me To Code
  

  historical
  

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• booster: Fast and secure initramfs generator
  

  linux
  

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• The Cody Computer homebrew 6502 system
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• The Curious Case of Quentell
  

  ai
  

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• The Homa network protocol
  

  networking
  

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• Adding a fully-bootstrapped Mono to GNU Guix
  

  compilers dotnet linux
  

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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 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 21, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Enum of Arrays
  

  performance zig
  

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• My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red
  

  web
  

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• Half My Life with Perl
  

  video historical perl
  

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• Interactive Lustre tutorial on Gleam tours
  

  gleam web
  

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• Visitor Pattern Considered Pointless - Use Pattern Switches Instead (2021)
  

  java
  

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• The Better Daemons Of Our Profession
  

  culture
  

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• Debugging a network performance issue in an OCaml 5 program
  

  ml performance
  

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• Why We’re Moving to a Source Available License
  

  databases law
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Poetry(-core), or the ultimate footgun
  

  python rant
  

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• (1981) Interlisp-D Demonstration by Beau Sheil
  

  video lisp
  

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• The era of open voice assistants has arrived
  

  ai
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Survey Of System Languages (2024)
  

  plt
  

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• ergo: A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go
  

  go networking
  

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• Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Introduce support for the Meson build system - git.git@904339e
  

  programming vcs
  

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• Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm developer
  

  elixir elm javascript programming
  

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• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
  

  law web
  

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• Fixing C strings
  

  c
  

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• What are temporal and spatial memory safety?
  

  programming
  

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• Effectful - Build Fast & Reliable Haskell Applications
  

  haskell
  

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• Interactive diagrams for complex systems
  

  design graphics visualization
  

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• AI and Internet Hygiene
  

  ai
  

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• Murder Mystery: GCC Builds Failing After sbuild Refactoring in Debian
  

  d debugging linux testing
  

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