The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nix - Death by a thousand cuts
  

  nix
  

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• Don't Use Session (Signal Fork)
  

  security
  

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• The people should own the town square
  

  culture
  

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• Justified Text: Better Than Expected?
  

  css design
  

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• Use cases for <form method="dialog">
  

  web
  

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• Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
  

  historical programming
  

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• YJIT 3.4: Even Faster and More Memory-Efficient
  

  compilers ruby
  

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• The best laptop ever
  

  hardware mac
  

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• The gen auto-trait problem
  

  plt rust
  

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• BASIC Star Trek Games
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• DoomPDF
  

  pdf games
  

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• Thunderbolt ports aren’t all the same
  

  hardware mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security
  

  security
  

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• Software Design is Knowledge Building
  

  practices
  

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• 3 Shifted 3 Shapes: Making a w3m Logo
  

  design
  

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• Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit
  

  cryptography
  

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• What are you planning to learn in 2025?
  

  ask practices
  

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• What is a dependency?
  

  programming
  

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• Demoscene Basics from a Basic Demoscener
  

  graphics
  

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• Performance of LLMs on Advent of code 2024
  

  ai programming
  

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• LineageOS 22 released
  

  android
  

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• Static search trees
  

  performance
  

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• Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…"
  

  programming
  

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• How webcams with focus control work (Razer Kiyo Pro repair)
  

  hardware reversing
  

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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 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 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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