The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
  

  distributed
  

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• Be aware of the Makefile effect
  

  programming
  

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• This month in Servo: dark mode, keyword sizes, XPath, and more
  

  browsers
  

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• I quit my job to work on my programming language
  

  c++ clojure plt
  

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• Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me
  

  rant satire
  

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• Portals and Quake
  

  graphics historical python
  

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• IP-over-Toslink
  

  networking
  

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• Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures)
  

  compilers
  

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• WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI
  

  security windows
  

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• dnsclay: DNS UPDATE/AXFR/NOTIFY to many custom DNS operator APIs gateway
  

  networking
  

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• Alloy 6.2.0 released
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim
  

  vim
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title
  

  security
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released
  

  release
  

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• How I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
  

  linux
  

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• Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
  

  ai
  

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• Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems
  

  historical windows
  

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• Tools Worth Changing To in 2025
  

  practices
  

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• Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
  

  databases
  

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• I’m Lovin’ It: Exploiting McDonald’s APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny
  

  security
  

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• Compiler Explorer in 2024
  

  compilers web
  

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• Goodbye Github Pages, Hello Coolify
  

  philosophy web
  

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• Migrating Immich from Docker to NixOS
  

  devops nix
  

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• Solving Advent of Code 2024 in Under 1ms
  

  assembly performance rust
  

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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 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 25, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Merry Everything and Happy Holidays my favorite crustaceans
  

  meta
  

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• From Nix to Eos
  

  nix practices
  

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• A worked example of copy-and-patch compilation
  

  compilers plt
  

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• twice: chrome extension asking you to think twice when visit social media sites
  

  show browsers web
  

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• Controlling Nondeterminism in Model-Based Tests with Prophecy Variables
  

  databases formalmethods testing
  

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• Application blackbox
  

  debugging linux
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Problem Driven Development
  

  practices programming
  

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• Debian’s approach to Rust - Dependency handling (2022)
  

  practices rust
  

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• Goodhart's Law Isn't as Useful as You Might Think
  

  practices
  

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• Hacking Life into My Little Counter
  

  hardware
  

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• Lock Files Considered Harmful
  

  practices
  

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