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 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 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The fizzbuzz that did not get me the job
  

  javascript plt programming
  

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• wild: A very fast linker for Linux
  

  performance
  

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• Life pro tip: Oracle Linux is the best local VM for MacBooks
  

  linux mac
  

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• Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
  

  editors
  

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• What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
  

  ai
  

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• SDL 3.2.0
  

  release
  

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• The Drunken Plagiarists - Working with Co-pilots
  

  ai rant
  

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• TabBoo: Add random jumpscares to sites you're trying to avoid
  

  web
  

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• December Project Goals Update
  

  rust
  

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• VIC-20 Elite
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• buzz 0.5.0 release
  

  plt zig
  

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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 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• CVSS is dead to us
  

  c security
  

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• MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years
  

  security
  

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• tell me of weird, obscure, or proprietary C compilers and environments past and present
  

  ask c
  

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• The Juggler's Curse
  

  practices
  

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• Bun 1.2
  

  javascript nodejs release
  

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• The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Tailwind CSS v4.0
  

  css release
  

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• First release of OpenVox, the community fork of Puppet
  

  devops release
  

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• Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel
  

  security
  

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• Denuvo Analysis
  

  compsci cryptography security
  

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• Creating a highly-integrated open-source laptop from scratch
  

  hardware
  

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• Stratoshark: Wireshark for the Cloud
  

  debugging networking security
  

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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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