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 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing Lix 2.92 "Bombe glacée"
  

  nix release
  

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• 2D Syntax
  

  lisp
  

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• Moving on from React, a Year Later
  

  javascript
  

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• Woodpecker CI v3.0.0 release
  

  release
  

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• Block AI scrapers with Anubis
  

  ai release web
  

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• Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products
  

  ai security
  

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• Dillo release 3.2.0
  

  browsers release
  

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• Thoughts On A Month With Devin
  

  ai
  

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• The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Podcast: Type Theory Forall
  

  audio ml plt
  

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• Rust Coreutils 0.0.29 release
  

  release rust
  

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• Preventing data races with Pony
  

  plt programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Earthstar
  

  distributed
  

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• How I think about Zig and Rust
  

  rust zig
  

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• core.async.flow Rationale
  

  clojure
  

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• What to Expect from Release Month (0.14.0)
  

  zig
  

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• A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
  

  security
  

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• Prototyping in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025
  

  culture event
  

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• Announcing Six Day and IP Address Certificate Options in 2025
  

  security
  

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• Hands-on graphics without X11
  

  netbsd
  

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• Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 1)
  

  linux lisp nix
  

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• Improve Rust Compile Time by 108X
  

  rust
  

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• Private Keys in the Fortigate Leak
  

  cryptography security
  

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

• Nix - Death by a thousand cuts
  

  nix
  

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• Don't Use Session (Signal Fork)
  

  security
  

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• The people should own the town square
  

  culture
  

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• Justified Text: Better Than Expected?
  

  css design
  

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• Use cases for <form method="dialog">
  

  web
  

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• Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
  

  historical programming
  

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• YJIT 3.4: Even Faster and More Memory-Efficient
  

  compilers ruby
  

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• The best laptop ever
  

  hardware mac
  

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• The gen auto-trait problem
  

  plt rust
  

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• BASIC Star Trek Games
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• DoomPDF
  

  pdf games
  

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• Thunderbolt ports aren’t all the same
  

  hardware mac
  

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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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