The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The hardest working font in Manhattan
  

  graphics hardware
  

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• Devenv telemetry warning
  

  nix
  

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• TeX and Typst: Layout Models
  

  graphics
  

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• How do modern compilers choose which variables to put in registers?
  

  compilers plt
  

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• The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 Wifi Networks
  

  hardware networking
  

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• How Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal
  

  games reversing
  

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• Type safe variadic printf, without macros
  

  api plt
  

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• Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000
  

  security
  

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• The Tiny Book of Great Joys
  

  design hardware
  

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• The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking
  

  pdf ai cogsci
  

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• How to Backdoor Large Language Models
  

  ai
  

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• First analysis of Apple's USB Restricted Mode bypass (CVE-2025-24200)
  

  security
  

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

• How Copyover MUD Servers Worked
  

  c unix
  

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• Undergraduate Invents Faster Hash Table
  

  compsci
  

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• You Should Use /tmp/ More
  

  practices
  

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• We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly
  

  go web
  

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• Some terminal frustrations
  

  osdev
  

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• Your AI can’t see gorillas
  

  ai visualization
  

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• pkarr: Public Key Addressable Resource Records (sovereign TLDs)
  

  distributed
  

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• A catalog of ways to generate SSA
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Free Wiki Hosting, No Ads
  

  web
  

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• Introduction to Operating System Abstractions using Plan 9
  

  osdev
  

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• NixOS and Actually Portable Executables
  

  linux nix
  

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• Boring tech is mature, not old
  

  rant
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig
  

  zig
  

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• getaddrinfo sucks. everything else is much worse
  

  networking
  

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• AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
  

  ai privacy security
  

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• Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot
  

  nix
  

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• Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)
  

  c++
  

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• Cloudflare incident on February 6, 2025
  

  networking
  

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• We are destroying software
  

  api culture rant
  

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• Fun Friday: what's the weirdest automation you've ever made?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Refined: simple refinement types for Rust
  

  show rust
  

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• polysubml-demo: A simple ML-like language with subtyping, polymorphism, higher rank types, and global type inference
  

  ml plt
  

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• Synctrain: a rethought iOS client for Syncthing
  

  ios release
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Is NixOS truly reproducible?
  

  nix
  

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• My failed attempt to shrink all npm packages by 5%
  

  javascript performance
  

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• Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, and absolutely no sense, just a power button and a USB port
  

  hardware
  

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• What're the Best Things you Read and Learned in 2024?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Maps are faster in Go 1.24
  

  go
  

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• Pebble smartwatches open-sourced
  

  mobile
  

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• Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering
  

  video graphics
  

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• noria: Fast web applications through dynamic, partially-stateful dataflow
  

  databases
  

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• Fixing my monitor's power button
  

  hardware
  

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• Two Bites of Data Science in K
  

  apl
  

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• Building personal software with Claude
  

  ai practices
  

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• The Future of Microprocessors
  

  video hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platforms
  

  privacy security
  

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• dreaming of smel shell
  

  design plt unix
  

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• I'll think twice before using Github Actions again
  

  vcs
  

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• Using Linear Programming to find optimal builds in League of Legends
  

  games programming
  

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• Twine Data
  

  programming
  

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• Building a tiny Linux from scratch
  

  linux nix
  

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• InAppBrowser.com: see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser (2022)
  

  mobile security web
  

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• The hunt for error -22
  

  debugging rust
  

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• Things people get wrong about Electron
  

  javascript web
  

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• Reminiscing on my early days writing software (2023)
  

  practices
  

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• Async Pipeline Pattern - Eager to work
  

  rust
  

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• Type Inference in Rust and C++
  

  c++ plt rust
  

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