The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Be Skeptical of All Code - Not Just the Funny Stuff
  

  security
  

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• How we are defending Software Freedom against Apple at the EU's highest court
  

  law
  

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• baffled by generational garbage collection
  

  lisp performance plt
  

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• A Simple Serialization System
  

  c programming
  

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• Qalculate hacks
  

  math
  

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• Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?
  

  math
  

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• Fully Dynamically Linked Rust Binary: An Experiment
  

  rust
  

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• Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget
  

  ai hardware
  

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• Docker Bake is Now Generally Available
  

  devops programming release testing
  

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• Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
  

  games
  

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• The Visible Zorker
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Lume, an MIT-licensed CLI to virtualize macOS environments
  

  virtualization
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reversing the Pixel 4a battery update
  

  android reversing
  

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• TV Setup
  

  ios
  

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• Building a (T1D) smartwatch from scratch
  

  hardware
  

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• "Will I ever use this in the real world?"
  

  education math
  

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• Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails
  

  devops
  

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• Using v2ray with Caddy to Access the Internet in China
  

  linux web
  

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• The Death of Email Forwarding
  

  email
  

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• How I Use "AI"
  

  ai practices
  

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• Equinix Sunset, future of gitlab.freedesktop.org
  

  linux
  

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• Hell (Haskell shell)
  

  haskell programming
  

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• Why Trees Without Branches Grow Faster: The Case for Reducing Branches in Code
  

  databases performance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OpenAI quietly funded independent math benchmark before setting record with o3
  

  ai
  

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• The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
  

  historical rant
  

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• Automatic Server Reloading in Rust on Change
  

  rust
  

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• When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition
  

  compsci formalmethods
  

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• dinit: Service monitoring / "init" system
  

  linux
  

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• Hash Design and Goodhart's Law
  

  compsci math performance
  

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• Poisoning AI scraper responses with Versara
  

  release web
  

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• Migrating away from bcachefs
  

  linux
  

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• Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM card with Android and Linux
  

  hardware linux
  

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• The surprising struggle to get a UNIX Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++
  

  c c++ programming unix
  

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• Encrypted NixOS home server with passwordless reboot
  

  linux nix
  

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• Yet Another Perl-Powered Company: Geolytica
  

  perl
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Comic Mono
  

  editors
  

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• Cheatsheet for jj's builtin diff editor
  

  vcs
  

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• Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
  

  hardware security
  

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• Git Trailers
  

  devops release vcs
  

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• Project MINI RACK - a Homelab Revolution
  

  video hardware networking
  

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• Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
  

  c databases
  

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• Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv
  

  python
  

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• Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet
  

  security
  

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• How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
  

  math unix
  

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• Wasm GC isn’t ready for realtime graphics
  

  graphics lisp wasm web
  

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• Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness
  

  cogsci graphics
  

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• isd (interactive systemd) — a better way to work with systemd units
  

  linux python systemd
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing Rust 1.84.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Go is a Well-Designed Language, Actually
  

  go
  

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• Why Go Should Sometimes Be a No-Go
  

  go rant
  

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• Not every user owns an iPhone
  

  performance web
  

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• 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 available now
  

  hardware release
  

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• Installing NixOS with the latest kernel
  

  nix
  

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• Northeastern’s redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons the fundamentals of computer science
  

  education
  

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• Embedding Scheme in Rust
  

  lisp rust
  

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• A Pixel Parable
  

  art games historical
  

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• Arch Linux User Repository Requires Packages To Support x86_64: No ARM-Only Software
  

  linux
  

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• Name Collision of the Year: Vector
  

  databases math
  

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• A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator
  

  ruby
  

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