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 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Visualizing All ISBNs — $10k by 2025-01-31
  

  visualization
  

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• On Ada's Dependent Types, and its Types as a Whole
  

  plt programming
  

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• That's Not an Abstraction, That's Just a Layer of Indirection
  

  practices
  

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• Revisiting the NetBSD build system
  

  netbsd
  

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• Everything you ever wanted to know about “hello, world” but were afraid to ask
  

  pdf c programming
  

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• 38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
  

  databases
  

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• Write your Own Virtual Machine
  

  c
  

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• Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom
  

  culture
  

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• A Simple ELF
  

  assembly c hardware linux visualization
  

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• I Almost Died for a Full Sentry Database
  

  practices
  

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• Keeping secrets secret with git-crypt
  

  practices vcs
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My colleague Julius
  

  philosophy
  

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• How many links overlap between Lobste.rs and HN?
  

  meta culture
  

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• C++ Is An Absolute Blast
  

  c++ plt
  

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• How Many Hours Can You Code?
  

  practices
  

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• Unnecessary Optimization in Rust: Hamming Distances, SIMD, and Auto-Vectorization
  

  performance rust
  

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• Hello emacs.tv
  

  emacs
  

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• A Tour of WebAuthn
  

  cryptography web
  

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• UIs Should Be Versioned, Just Like We Version APIs
  

  design
  

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• Making a Trello clone using htmx
  

  web
  

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• Debu.gs: Try Inferno without Installing It
  

  historical osdev
  

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• sqlite.directory
  

  databases
  

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• Cramming scrapscript into msgpack
  

  distributed networking plt web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why we use our own hardware at Fastmail
  

  devops hardware
  

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• Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects
  

  practices
  

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• Plan 9 is a bicycle
  

  unix
  

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• darktable 5.0.0 released
  

  release
  

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• How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
  

  databases
  

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• Four limitations of Rust’s borrow checker
  

  plt rust
  

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• Introducing S2: The Log – made serverless
  

  databases distributed
  

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• making a website is hard
  

  rant web
  

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• On Long Term Software Development
  

  programming
  

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• CandyFab: A DIY 3D Sugar Printer
  

  art hardware
  

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• State of JavaScript 2024
  

  javascript
  

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• Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++
  

  c++ compilers objectivec
  

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