The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• CRUNCH - a compiler for statically typed Scheme with a minimal runtime
  

  compilers lisp plt
  

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• Everyone gets bidirectional BFS wrong
  

  programming
  

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• Let's Encrypt will begin offering 6-day certificates
  

  security
  

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• Go Protobuf: The new Opaque API - The Go Programming Language
  

  go
  

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• Go's Weird Little Iterators
  

  go
  

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• Moon
  

  visualization
  

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• Tools for Go modules
  

  go
  

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• What's new in Ruby 3.4
  

  ruby
  

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• Why Should a Unix Shell Have Objects?
  

  programming unix
  

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• Contributing an mdoc reader to Pandoc
  

  haskell programming
  

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• Golang 1.24 is looking seriously awesome
  

  go
  

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• 20 years of Linux on the Desktop (part 2)
  

  historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 25 years of Dillo
  

  browsers historical
  

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• Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization
  

  web
  

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• Kubernetes Spec Explorer
  

  devops
  

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• Conway's Game of Life implemented by a manual page
  

  unix
  

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• Using Guile for Emacs
  

  emacs lisp
  

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• Crash recovery in 256 bytes
  

  osdev rust
  

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• Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z
  

  netbsd retrocomputing
  

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• Why GCC 1.42 on the Tektronix 4404 — with a C compiler from 1979
  

  c retrocomputing
  

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• I Tried Creating a Native App in TypeScript
  

  compilers web
  

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• Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS
  

  retrocomputing rust
  

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• Atmosphère is a work-in-progress customized firmware for the Nintendo Switch
  

  osdev
  

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• Adélie Linux 1.0-BETA6 Released
  

  linux release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xfce 4.20 released
  

  release
  

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• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?
  

  plt
  

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• Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
  

  historical
  

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• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG
  

  cryptography
  

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• Solving Advent of Code at Compile Time with Rust Macros
  

  rust
  

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• Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
  

  hardware
  

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• Swift Language focus areas heading into 2025
  

  swift
  

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• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
  

  video networking ruby web
  

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• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection
  

  compsci plt rust
  

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• Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables (2019)
  

  performance rust
  

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• Now we’re all Forked
  

  swift
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SCCS roach motel
  

  vcs
  

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• Luon high-level programming language similar to Oberon+, integrating concepts from Lua, and targeting the LuaJIT VM
  

  lua
  

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• Ki, a multi-cursor structural editor
  

  editors
  

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• Auth bypass in Go SSH package
  

  go security
  

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• In search of a faster SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• When should we require that firmware be free?
  

  law
  

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• Security Review for Mullvad VPN
  

  pdf security
  

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• When Your Webcam Doesn’t Work: Solving Firefox and PipeWire Issues
  

  browsers linux
  

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• Algorithms for high performance terminal apps
  

  design
  

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• A new video captures a remarkable 1968 demo of IBM’s Executive Terminal
  

  historical
  

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• Rust's incremental compiler architecture
  

  rust
  

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• TRELLIS: Structured 3D Latents for Scalable and Versatile 3D Generation
  

  ai art
  

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

• Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should?
  

  api
  

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• Forced to upgrade
  

  hardware
  

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• All Your Codebase
  

  c c++ zig
  

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• Mozilla Firefox removes "Do Not Track"
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• A brief history of Mac servers
  

  historical mac
  

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• The Google Willow thing
  

  programming
  

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• Rails is better low code than low code
  

  ruby
  

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• The new Vim project - What has changed after Bram
  

  video vim
  

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• Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID)
  

  web
  

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• How to Actually Migrate Complex Systems in Infrastructure
  

  devops
  

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• Binary Versioning 1.0.0
  

  practices satire
  

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• Render README.org as HTML on Sourcehut
  

  emacs
  

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