The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Meets Subpar Software
  

  ios rant
  

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• Tangled — a git collaboration platform built on atproto
  

  show distributed vcs
  

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• Effective Rust
  

  rust
  

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• illuminant - ActivityPub server with NNTP interface
  

  distributed haskell web
  

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• Why Can’t We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices?
  

  mac
  

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• The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
  

  hardware historical
  

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• How fast can you open 1000 files?
  

  linux mac
  

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• Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn
  

  rust
  

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• Cleaner codebase, happier mind
  

  practices
  

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• VT220 font emulation in browser
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• A Mechanically Verified Garbage Collector for OCaml
  

  pdf formalmethods ml
  

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• Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 1
  

  emacs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OpenAI quietly funded independent math benchmark before setting record with o3
  

  ai
  

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• The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
  

  historical rant
  

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• Automatic Server Reloading in Rust on Change
  

  rust
  

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• When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition
  

  compsci formalmethods
  

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• dinit: Service monitoring / "init" system
  

  linux
  

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• Hash Design and Goodhart's Law
  

  compsci math performance
  

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• Poisoning AI scraper responses with Versara
  

  release web
  

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• Migrating away from bcachefs
  

  linux
  

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• Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM card with Android and Linux
  

  hardware linux
  

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• The surprising struggle to get a UNIX Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++
  

  c c++ programming unix
  

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• Encrypted NixOS home server with passwordless reboot
  

  linux nix
  

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• Yet Another Perl-Powered Company: Geolytica
  

  perl
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 11, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose
  

  distributed
  

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• Be aware of the Makefile effect
  

  programming
  

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• This month in Servo: dark mode, keyword sizes, XPath, and more
  

  browsers
  

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• I quit my job to work on my programming language
  

  c++ clojure plt
  

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• Stop Trying To Schedule A Call With Me
  

  rant satire
  

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• Portals and Quake
  

  graphics historical python
  

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• IP-over-Toslink
  

  networking
  

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• Flattening ASTs (and Other Compiler Data Structures)
  

  compilers
  

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• WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI
  

  security windows
  

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• dnsclay: DNS UPDATE/AXFR/NOTIFY to many custom DNS operator APIs gateway
  

  networking
  

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• Alloy 6.2.0 released
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in vim
  

  vim
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Never Have Outdated Footer Dates Again
  

  satire
  

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• I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone
  

  privacy
  

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• The Alder Lake SHLX anomaly
  

  assembly performance
  

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• Helix 25.01 Highlights
  

  editors release
  

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• Bevy Efficiency on Mobile
  

  show practices rust
  

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• DOOM® CAPTCHA
  

  games web
  

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• iTerm2 3.5.11 released with a critical security fix
  

  release security
  

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• Origins and developments
  

  plt rust
  

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• How can we compare expressive power between two Turing-complete languages?
  

  formalmethods plt
  

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• Remote reboots with encrypted disks (2022)
  

  linux security
  

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• Reversing the Animal Crossing letter system (2018)
  

  games reversing
  

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• Can we use this index, please? – Why not?
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus
  

  linux rust
  

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• Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
  

  hardware historical
  

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• How to add metaprogramming to Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Hello eBPF: Writing a Linux scheduler in Java with eBPF
  

  java linux performance
  

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• How to Create HTML/ZIP/PNG Polyglot Files
  

  web
  

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• Stuff I learnt in 2024
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Django in 2024
  

  python web
  

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• Tips for New Open Source Maintainers (2014)
  

  practices
  

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• James Gosling on Java - Historical Oddities & Persistent Itches
  

  video java
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• IOCCC28, the 40th anniversary contest, is starting tonight
  

  c release
  

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• How I’m trying to use BlueSky without getting burned again
  

  web
  

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