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

• Nepenthes, a tarpit intended to catch web crawlers
  

  ai
  

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• Is Memory64 actually worth using?
  

  wasm
  

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• The DIY FOSS cyborg
  

  hardware linux
  

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• Fenwick Trees are Awesome
  

  programming
  

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• Using PCBs to create front panels for your projects
  

  hardware
  

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• The mess that is handling structure arguments and returns in LLVM
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Rosetta Code
  

  programming
  

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• Branchless UTF-8 Encoding
  

  programming rust
  

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• Async Rust is about concurrency, not (just) performance
  

  rust
  

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• The untouched goldmine of F#
  

  dotnet ml
  

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• Django vs. FastAPI, An Honest Comparison
  

  python
  

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• Landing the Nostromo
  

  fortran historical
  

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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 November 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
  

  databases
  

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• Git and jujutsu: in miniature
  

  vcs
  

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• Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1.0
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla
  

  vcs
  

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• Bus Number - The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write
  

  show culture
  

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• VMware Fusion and Workstation now free for all users
  

  virtualization
  

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• PostgreSQL "timestamp with time zone"s set in the future may become silently incorrect if DST abolished
  

  databases
  

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• Rust needs an official specification
  

  rust
  

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• Announcing .NET 9
  

  dotnet
  

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• When to Use Cosmos DB
  

  databases
  

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• 3rd edition of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering book now freely available for download
  

  book release security
  

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• fmt.Sprintf vs String Concat
  

  go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 11, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs
  

  ai
  

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• A BSD person tries Alpine Linux
  

  freebsd linux
  

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• Progressively enhancing (legacy) CGI apps with htmx
  

  web
  

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• Unused keys in vim
  

  vim
  

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• An alternative idea for a typed language living alongside/inside JavaScript
  

  javascript plt
  

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• Booleans Are a Trap
  

  practices
  

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• What's new in F# 9
  

  dotnet
  

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• RISC-V Vector Extension overview
  

  hardware performance
  

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• Algol 68 – A Retrospective
  

  plt
  

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• A mental model for Linux file, hard and soft links
  

  linux
  

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• The BPF instruction set architecture is now RFC 9669
  

  linux
  

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• Algol-68 seemed like a good idea – until it wasn’t
  

  historical plt
  

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

• SQLite rsync: Database Remote-Copy Tool For SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• What’s New in POSIX 2024 – XCU
  

  unix
  

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• OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it
  

  freebsd linux
  

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• A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C#
  

  dotnet rust
  

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• Jia Tanning Go code
  

  go security
  

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• Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame
  

  android
  

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• Transaction Isolation in Postgres, explained
  

  databases
  

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• Typeset: An HTML pre-proces­sor for web ty­pog­ra­phy
  

  css design
  

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• Introducing zizmor: now you can have beautiful clean workflows
  

  rust security
  

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• An unexpected discovery: Automated reasoning often makes systems more efficient and easier to maintain
  

  distributed formalmethods practices
  

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• Using less memory to look up IP addresses in Mess With DNS
  

  networking performance
  

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• EICAR test file: a string that can trigger anti-virus
  

  security
  

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