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 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Comic Mono
  

  editors
  

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• Cheatsheet for jj's builtin diff editor
  

  vcs
  

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• Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
  

  hardware security
  

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• Git Trailers
  

  devops release vcs
  

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• Project MINI RACK - a Homelab Revolution
  

  video hardware networking
  

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• Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
  

  c databases
  

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• Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv
  

  python
  

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• Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet
  

  security
  

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• How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
  

  math unix
  

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• Wasm GC isn’t ready for realtime graphics
  

  graphics lisp wasm web
  

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• Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness
  

  cogsci graphics
  

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• isd (interactive systemd) — a better way to work with systemd units
  

  linux python systemd
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 13, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I Chose Common Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• The Most Elegant Configuration Language
  

  ml plt
  

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• niri v25.01 released
  

  linux release
  

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• Today I learned that bash has hashmaps
  

  unix
  

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• boreDOM: another boring JS framework
  

  javascript
  

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• All Your Codebase: C/C++ projects for the Zig build system
  

  c c++ zig
  

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• 2025 Predictions
  

  programming
  

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• Viewing images
  

  graphics
  

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• Replicated KV store in Rust using a shared log service
  

  databases distributed rust
  

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• Release UCM Desktop v1.0.0
  

  distributed elm release
  

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• Comptime as Configuration
  

  zig
  

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• Highlights from Git 2.48
  

  vcs
  

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

• Building Bauble
  

  graphics
  

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• Apple is Killing Swift
  

  swift
  

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• German router maker is latest company to inadvertently clarify the LGPL license
  

  law
  

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• Relatively New Things You Should Know about HTML Heading Into 2025
  

  css web
  

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• Why is hash(-1) == hash(-2) in Python?
  

  python
  

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• My Thoughts on Kotlin: Perspectives after 4 years
  

  kotlin
  

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• What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?
  

  unix
  

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• Designing Code For Forward Progress
  

  plt programming
  

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• Homomorphic Encryption in iOS 18
  

  ios
  

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• Why isn't `__attribute__((cleanup(...)))` more known?
  

  ask c
  

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• Rewrite it in Rust: A Computational Physics Case Study
  

  pdf rust science
  

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• n2: revisiting Ninja
  

  compilers
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 08, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• UK Users: Lobsters needs your help with the Online Safety Act
  

  announce
  

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• Servo Revival: 2023-2024
  

  browsers rust
  

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• Zig's Comptime is Bonkers Good
  

  zig
  

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• Building Ultra Long Range TOSLINK
  

  hardware networking
  

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• Queues Don't Fix Overload (2014)
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Mecha Comet - Modular Linux Handheld Computer powered by Open-Source Software
  

  linux
  

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• Regex Chess: A minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions
  

  programming
  

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• Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
  

  rust
  

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• Write your own tiny programming system(s) Course
  

  plt programming
  

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• Now I have two problems
  

  javascript perl php
  

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• End-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer VPN tunnels for hackers
  

  c networking
  

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• Review of Orbit by Mozilla
  

  ai javascript privacy
  

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