The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reversing the Pixel 4a battery update
  

  android reversing
  

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• TV Setup
  

  ios
  

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• Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch
  

  hardware
  

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• "Will I ever use this in the real world?"
  

  education math
  

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• Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails
  

  devops
  

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• Using v2ray with Caddy to Access the Internet in China
  

  linux web
  

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• The Death of Email Forwarding
  

  email
  

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• How I Use "AI"
  

  ai practices
  

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• Equinix Sunset, future of gitlab.freedesktop.org
  

  linux
  

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• Hell (Haskell shell)
  

  haskell programming
  

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• Why Trees Without Branches Grow Faster: The Case for Reducing Branches in Code
  

  databases performance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing Rust 1.84.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Go is a Well-Designed Language, Actually
  

  go
  

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• Why Go Should Sometimes Be a No-Go
  

  go rant
  

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• Not every user owns an iPhone
  

  performance web
  

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• 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 available now
  

  hardware release
  

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• Installing NixOS with the latest kernel
  

  nix
  

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• Northeastern’s redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons the fundamentals of computer science
  

  education
  

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• Embedding Scheme in Rust
  

  lisp rust
  

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• A Pixel Parable
  

  art games historical
  

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• Arch Linux User Repository Requires Packages To Support x86_64: No ARM-Only Software
  

  linux
  

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• Name Collision of the Year: Vector
  

  databases math
  

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• A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator
  

  ruby
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• fish-shell 4.0b1, now in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
  

  culture web
  

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• Java in the Small
  

  java
  

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• Home Manager: dotfiles management
  

  nix
  

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• Elixir v1.18 released: type checking of function calls, Language Server listeners, built-in JSON, and ExUnit improvements
  

  elixir release
  

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• Piccolo OS, a small multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico
  

  assembly c education hardware
  

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• Announcing Chapel 2.3
  

  plt release
  

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• Eternal Terminal
  

  networking unix
  

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• The RAM myth
  

  performance
  

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• Announcing NetBSD 10.1 (Dec 16, 2024)
  

  netbsd
  

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• Go advanced concurrency patterns: unlimited buffer channels
  

  go
  

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• The Intel 80376 – a Legacy-Free i386 (with a Twist!) (2010)
  

  hardware historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protect mode support in the original Windows 3.0 was basically a 1-man skunkworks project
  

  historical windows
  

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• Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit
  

  networking
  

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• The errors of TeX
  

  pdf historical practices
  

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• The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad
  

  rant
  

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• qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt
  

  browsers
  

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• React 19 is now stable
  

  javascript release web
  

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• Galloping Search
  

  programming
  

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• How a solar Minecraft server is changing the way we play video games
  

  education games
  

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• Designing a const `array::from_fn` in stable Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Intuition in Software Development
  

  philosophy
  

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• How do I pay the publisher of a web page?
  

  finance web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 04, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The next platform
  

  devops scaling
  

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• Legacy Safety: The Wrocław C++ Meeting
  

  c++
  

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• No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4
  

  networking
  

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• Optimization adventures: making a parallel Rust workload even faster with data-oriented design (and other tricks)
  

  performance rust
  

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• FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE Announcement
  

  freebsd release
  

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• Dependency management fatigue, or why I forever ditched React for Go+HTMX+Templ
  

  go javascript web
  

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• 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production
  

  haskell ml
  

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• ContainerScript: Firefox Addon for programmatically assigning URLs to containers
  

  browsers
  

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• SQL best practices – don’t compare count(*) with 0
  

  databases performance
  

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• Democratizing Software
  

  culture education philosophy plt
  

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• How PlayStation graphics & visual artefacts work
  

  games graphics
  

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• Why Go slices still surprise me
  

  go
  

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