The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Does current AI represent a dead end?
  

  ai practices
  

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• Perfect Desk
  

  design freebsd
  

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• Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato
  

  api graphics networking release unix
  

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• CobolCraft: A Minecraft server written in COBOL
  

  programming
  

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• Debugging memory corruption: Who wrote ‘2’ into my stack?
  

  debugging
  

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• The Matrix Holiday Special 2024
  

  distributed
  

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• The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
  

  cogsci
  

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• sudo-rs: A memory safe implementation of sudo and su
  

  rust security unix
  

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• Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
  

  ai math
  

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• Chimera Linux Entering beta
  

  linux
  

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• Running NetBSD 10.1 on a 1998 Toshiba laptop
  

  netbsd retrocomputing
  

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• Electronics Test Gear on the Cheap
  

  hardware
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Survey Of System Languages (2024)
  

  plt
  

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• ergo: A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go
  

  go networking
  

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• Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Introduce support for the Meson build system - git.git@904339e
  

  programming vcs
  

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• Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm developer
  

  elixir elm javascript programming
  

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• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
  

  law web
  

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• Fixing C strings
  

  c
  

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• What are temporal and spatial memory safety?
  

  programming
  

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• Effectful - Build Fast & Reliable Haskell Applications
  

  haskell
  

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• Interactive diagrams for complex systems
  

  design graphics visualization
  

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• AI and Internet Hygiene
  

  ai
  

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• Murder Mystery: GCC Builds Failing After sbuild Refactoring in Debian
  

  d debugging linux testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 03, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bicameral, Not Homoiconic
  

  lisp plt
  

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• You Have One Voice
  

  plt programming
  

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• RAII and the Rust/Linux Drama
  

  linux rust
  

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• Atomics for Humans
  

  programming
  

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• Breakout in Decker, Three Ways
  

  apl art games
  

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• A KeyLogger using eBPF
  

  linux rust security
  

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• The Linux Kernel Driver Interface
  

  linux practices
  

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• Category Theory in Programming
  

  education lisp math
  

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• What implementation-independent test file formats exist for language tooling?
  

  ask testing
  

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• How do Time Travel Debuggers Work?
  

  video debugging
  

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• Experimenting with Rust, Nix, K6 and Parca
  

  nix performance rust
  

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• DELETEs are difficult
  

  databases
  

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