The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How Android's calculator works with real numbers
  

  android math
  

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• fixi.js - minimal general hypermedia controls
  

  javascript web
  

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• NASA has a list of 10 rules for software development
  

  practices
  

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• GulfOfMexico: perfect programming language
  

  satire
  

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• Run LLMs on macOS using llm-mlx and Apple’s MLX framework
  

  ai mac python
  

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• Can atproto scale down?
  

  distributed web
  

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• AI is Stifling Tech Adoption
  

  ai
  

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• How I implement SSA form
  

  compilers
  

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• Gemini (protocol)
  

  networking web
  

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• Modding the Gulf of Mexico Back (in Google Maps)
  

  video javascript reversing
  

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• Hosting Multiple Websites Under One NearlyFreeSpeech Site
  

  web
  

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• Civic Tech's Third Wave
  

  culture
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
  

  culture linux
  

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• Reassessing Wayland
  

  graphics linux
  

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• How I Automated My Computer Life With macOS Folder Actions
  

  mac
  

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• A Descent Into the Vᴏ̈ʀᴛᴇx
  

  databases testing zig
  

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• Tiny JITs for a Faster FFI
  

  ruby
  

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• why I built a hyper-personalized seach engine that isn't very good
  

  lisp lua web
  

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• Ki Editor now supports Reveal
  

  editors
  

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• FLAC 1.5.0 released
  

  c performance release
  

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• Derivative AT a Discontinuity
  

  math
  

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• Are Efficiency and Horizontal Scalability at odds?
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone
  

  hardware
  

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• Reasoning models are just LLMs
  

  ai
  

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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 February 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Asdf Version Manager Has Been Re-Written in Golang
  

  go
  

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• HTML Whitespace is Broken
  

  web
  

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• It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety
  

  security
  

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• Hotline for modern Apple systems
  

  culture programming
  

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• String vs &str
  

  rust
  

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• Go Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Package Exploits Go Module
  

  go security
  

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• SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated
  

  databases performance
  

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• A Java JIT Compiler and Runtime in Common Lisp
  

  compilers java lisp
  

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• All Bear blogs can use hashtags now via Octothorpes
  

  web
  

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• FreeBSD and hi-fi audio setup: bit-perfect, equalizer, real-time
  

  freebsd
  

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• Profiling in production with function call traces
  

  performance
  

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• Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
  

  ai
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 05, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
  

  rust zig
  

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• Developer philosophy
  

  practices
  

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• Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time
  

  art graphics
  

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• Best Simple System for Now
  

  practices programming
  

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• No-Panic Rust: A Nice Technique for Systems Programming
  

  rust
  

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• Seeking Support After Equinix Metal Sunsets
  

  linux
  

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• How languages influence each other and evolve
  

  historical programming
  

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• Perfect is the enemy of good
  

  programming
  

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• WebAssembly from the Ground Up
  

  book compilers education wasm
  

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• Retaking The Web Browser, One Small Step At A Time
  

  browsers culture
  

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• So You Want To Remove The GVL?
  

  performance ruby
  

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• clr: Checker for Lifetimes and other Refinement types
  

  zig
  

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