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

• The hardest working font in Manhattan
  

  graphics hardware
  

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• Devenv telemetry warning
  

  nix
  

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• TeX and Typst: Layout Models
  

  graphics
  

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• How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?
  

  compilers plt
  

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• The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 Wifi Networks
  

  hardware networking
  

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• How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
  

  games reversing
  

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• Type safe variadic printf, without macros
  

  api plt
  

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• Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000
  

  security
  

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• The Tiny Book of Great Joys
  

  design hardware
  

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• The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking
  

  pdf ai cogsci
  

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• How to Backdoor Large Language Models
  

  ai
  

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• First analysis of Apple's USB Restricted Mode bypass (CVE-2025-24200)
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig
  

  zig
  

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• getaddrinfo sucks. everything else is much worse
  

  networking
  

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• AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
  

  ai privacy security
  

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• Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot
  

  nix
  

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• Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)
  

  c++
  

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• Cloudflare incident on February 6, 2025
  

  networking
  

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• We are destroying software
  

  api culture rant
  

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• Fun Friday: what's the weirdest automation you've ever made?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Refined: simple refinement types for Rust
  

  show rust
  

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• polysubml-demo: A simple ML-like language with subtyping, polymorphism, higher rank types, and global type inference
  

  ml plt
  

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• Synctrain: a rethought iOS client for Syncthing
  

  ios release
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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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 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 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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