The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title
  

  security
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released
  

  release
  

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• How I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
  

  linux
  

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• Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
  

  ai
  

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• Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems
  

  historical windows
  

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• Tools Worth Changing To in 2025
  

  practices
  

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• Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
  

  databases
  

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• I’m Lovin’ It: Exploiting McDonald’s APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny
  

  security
  

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• Compiler Explorer in 2024
  

  compilers web
  

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• Goodbye Github Pages, Hello Coolify
  

  philosophy web
  

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• Migrating Immich from Docker to NixOS
  

  devops nix
  

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• Solving Advent of Code 2024 in Under 1ms
  

  assembly performance rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
  

  databases historical
  

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• I still believe in the bicycle for your mind, and this is my ride
  

  linux
  

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• The web is too big, or scaling down
  

  web
  

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• Fabrice Bellard's ts_sms: Short Message Compression using LLM
  

  ai
  

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• lmno.lol - Drag and drop blogging minus the yucky bits of the modern web
  

  show web
  

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• Flame graphs can hide small overheads with big overall impact
  

  performance
  

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• How Multi-User Dungeons Taught Me To Code
  

  historical
  

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• booster: Fast and secure initramfs generator
  

  linux
  

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• The Cody Computer homebrew 6502 system
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• The Curious Case of Quentell
  

  ai
  

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• The Homa network protocol
  

  networking
  

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• Adding a fully-bootstrapped Mono to GNU Guix
  

  compilers dotnet linux
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Visualizing All ISBNs — $10k by 2025-01-31
  

  visualization
  

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• On Ada's Dependent Types, and its Types as a Whole
  

  plt programming
  

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• That's Not an Abstraction, That's Just a Layer of Indirection
  

  practices
  

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• Revisiting the NetBSD build system
  

  netbsd
  

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• Everything you ever wanted to know about “hello, world” but were afraid to ask
  

  pdf c programming
  

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• 38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
  

  databases
  

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• Write your Own Virtual Machine
  

  c
  

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• Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom
  

  culture
  

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• A Simple ELF
  

  assembly c hardware linux visualization
  

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• I Almost Died for a Full Sentry Database
  

  practices
  

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• Keeping secrets secret with git-crypt
  

  practices vcs
  

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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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