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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