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 22, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• dropping hyper
  

  c rust
  

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• The jank programming language
  

  clojure compilers plt
  

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• Pride Versioning
  

  practices satire
  

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• a raycaster in bash
  

  graphics unix
  

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• Turing Machines
  

  compsci historical retrocomputing
  

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• Compiling C to Safe Rust, Formalized
  

  c compilers rust
  

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• Rivet Actors, Cloudflare Durable Objects-like infrastructure built with Rust, FoundationDB, V8 Isolates
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Spreadsheets 1/3 - Rye Language
  

  programming
  

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• Optimize your shell experience
  

  programming
  

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• We Have Google Drive at Home: Musings on Merkle-Tree Based File Sharing
  

  merkle-trees
  

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• Nix is a build system
  

  nix
  

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• Rules to avoid common extended inline assembly mistakes
  

  assembly c c++
  

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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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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 02, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Brazilian CA issues google.com certificate
  

  security
  

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• Typst as a Language
  

  plt
  

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• The fascinating security model of dark web marketplaces
  

  security web
  

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• Compilation on the GPU? A feasibility study
  

  compilers performance
  

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• How do you manage Personal Email, Registar and Host Accounts to Prevent Lock Out?
  

  email privacy security
  

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• Why do we call it "boilerplate code?" (2022)
  

  historical
  

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• Learnings after 4 years working with +50 companies on data engineering projects
  

  databases
  

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• Inline Assembly Dangers
  

  assembly
  

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• 7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025
  

  databases
  

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• Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go)
  

  databases
  

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• The complexities of enabling OpenCL support
  

  graphics linux
  

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• Property-based Testing Patterns (2016)
  

  testing
  

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