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 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The State Of Garnet in 2025
  

  plt
  

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• What was the best research paper you read in 2024?
  

  ask compsci
  

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• Do Files want to be Actors?
  

  distributed linux
  

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• I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time
  

  historical mac
  

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• A preference for deterministic tools over probabilistic tools
  

  ai programming
  

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• Multi-Path TCP: revolutionizing connectivity, one path at a time
  

  linux networking
  

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• One Dog v. the Windows 3.1 Graphics Stack
  

  retrocomputing reversing windows
  

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• Ask engineers how they like what they've built
  

  practices
  

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• SQLite4 – SQLite on LSM Tree (2014)
  

  databases
  

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• The Evolution of SRE at Google
  

  devops distributed practices
  

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• Apple to pay $95 million to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping
  

  privacy
  

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• Project idea: pkg-config support in compilers
  

  programming
  

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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 22, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• dropping hyper
  

  c rust
  

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• The jank programming language
  

  clojure compilers plt
  

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• Pride Versioning
  

  practices satire
  

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• a raycaster in bash
  

  graphics unix
  

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• Turing Machines
  

  compsci historical retrocomputing
  

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• Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized
  

  c compilers rust
  

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• Rivet Actors, Cloudflare Durable Objects-like infrastructure built with Rust, FoundationDB, V8 Isolates
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Spreadsheets 1/3 - Rye Language
  

  programming
  

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• Optimize your shell experience
  

  programming
  

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• We Have Google Drive at Home: Musings on Merkle-Tree Based File Sharing
  

  merkle-trees
  

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• Nix is a build system
  

  nix
  

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• Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes
  

  assembly c c++
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xfce 4.20 released
  

  release
  

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• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?
  

  plt
  

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• Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
  

  historical
  

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• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG
  

  cryptography
  

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• Solving Advent of Code at Compile Time with Rust Macros
  

  rust
  

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• Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
  

  hardware
  

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• Swift Language focus areas heading into 2025
  

  swift
  

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• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
  

  video networking ruby web
  

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• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection
  

  compsci plt rust
  

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• Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables (2019)
  

  performance rust
  

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• Now we’re all Forked
  

  swift
  

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