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 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Non-temporal store heuristics on the Apple M2
  

  hardware performance
  

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• NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git
  

  rust vcs
  

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• gtk3-classic: Patches to bring back a traditional experience for GTK+3
  

  linux
  

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• The Humble For Loop in JavaScript
  

  javascript practices
  

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• FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations
  

  hardware law
  

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• A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2
  

  ai programming
  

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• Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined
  

  c
  

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• the return of glfighters: porting a 23-year-old game to webassembly
  

  games retrocomputing wasm
  

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• Ad-Hoc Effects in Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• Thoughts on Rust hashing
  

  performance rust
  

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• proposal: spec: finite type set interface as union type · Issue #70752 · golang/go
  

  go
  

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• Keepin’ the Power Mac G5 running cool: What worked for me
  

  mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 10, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop
  

  ai
  

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• Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain via Truncated SHA-256 Collision and Command Injection
  

  security
  

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• The Shepherd 1.0.0 released: the init system written in Scheme
  

  linux lisp
  

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• How to Think About Time
  

  practices
  

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• Memory-safe PNG decoders now vastly outperform C PNG libraries
  

  performance rust
  

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• Reducing CO₂ emissions with faster software
  

  performance
  

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• The rule of least client-side complexity
  

  javascript web
  

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• Should std::expected be [[nodiscard]]?
  

  c++
  

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• Defusing AGPL-3 With Batch Processing
  

  law rant
  

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• Jepsen Test on Patroni: A PostgreSQL High Availability Solution
  

  databases
  

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• Himalaya, CLI to manage emails: v1.0.0
  

  email release rust
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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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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