The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xfce 4.20 released
  

  release
  

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• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?
  

  plt
  

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• Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
  

  historical
  

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• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG
  

  cryptography
  

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• Solving Advent of Code at Compile Time with Rust Macros
  

  rust
  

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• Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
  

  hardware
  

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• Swift Language focus areas heading into 2025
  

  swift
  

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• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
  

  video networking ruby web
  

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• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection
  

  compsci plt rust
  

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• Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables (2019)
  

  performance rust
  

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• Now we’re all Forked
  

  swift
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Non-temporal store heuristics on the Apple M2
  

  hardware performance
  

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• NonStop discussion around adding Rust to Git
  

  rust vcs
  

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• gtk3-classic: Patches to bring back a traditional experience for GTK+3
  

  linux
  

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• The Humble For Loop in JavaScript
  

  javascript practices
  

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• FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations
  

  hardware law
  

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• A ChatGPT clone, in 3000 bytes of C, backed by GPT-2
  

  ai programming
  

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• Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined
  

  c
  

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• the return of glfighters: porting a 23-year-old game to webassembly
  

  games retrocomputing wasm
  

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• Ad-Hoc Effects in Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• Thoughts on Rust hashing
  

  performance rust
  

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• proposal: spec: finite type set interface as union type · Issue #70752 · golang/go
  

  go
  

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• Keepin’ the Power Mac G5 running cool: What worked for me
  

  mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 11, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust
  

  databases rust
  

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• Common Misconceptions about Compilers
  

  compilers
  

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• From where I left
  

  databases person
  

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• Tree Calculus
  

  plt programming
  

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• Building a Tiny CDN With pyinfra and Chimera Linux
  

  networking
  

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• Filesystems can tell the kernel to panic
  

  linux security
  

  Comments
• An Undefeated Pull Request Template
  

  practices programming
  

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• What are your favorite non-standard CLI utilities/applications
  

  ask unix
  

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• Rust Futures are not guaranteed to be lazy
  

  rust
  

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• Apple’s use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 18
  

  ios swift
  

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• An experimental (e)shell pager
  

  emacs lisp mac
  

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• Data structures as jigs for programmers (Go edition)
  

  go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 06, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Keyset Cursors, Not Offsets, for Postgres Pagination
  

  databases
  

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• Praise to scdoc to generate man pages
  

  unix
  

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• What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser?
  

  ask meta
  

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• The "simple" 38 step journey to getting an RFC
  

  networking
  

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• Alpine Linux 3.21
  

  linux release
  

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• First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs (via a new llm-bedrock plugin)
  

  ai
  

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• The Cloud Container Iceberg
  

  devops
  

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• Structured binding upgrades in C++26
  

  c++
  

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• Advent Of Code 2024 in Nix - Day 01-03
  

  nix
  

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• The Hoare Cube
  

  formalmethods
  

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• The Art of the Propagator
  

  lisp plt programming
  

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• PyMyFlySpy: track your flight using its headrest data
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 05, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Egoless Engineering
  

  scaling
  

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• Phoenix LiveView 1.0.0 is here! - Phoenix Blog
  

  elixir release
  

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• A Brief Introduction to OCI Containers on FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Speeding up Ruby by rewriting C in Ruby
  

  c compilers ruby rust
  

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• The Tube Computer: wall-mounted 8-bit homebrew computer from vintage thermionic valves
  

  hardware historical retrocomputing
  

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• Transferring Python Build Standalone Stewardship to Astral
  

  python
  

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• Rust9x update: Rust 1.84.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust
  

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• Precomputation
  

  compsci
  

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• The Return of Procedural Programming
  

  video historical plt
  

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• New era of slop security reports for open source
  

  ai security
  

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• The Next Generation of the Heroku Platform
  

  devops
  

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• Designing Wild's incremental linking
  

  compilers
  

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