The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
  

  cryptography
  

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• Glue work considered harmful
  

  practices
  

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• Who's Hiring? Q1 2025
  

  job
  

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• sixos: a nix os without systemd
  

  video nix systemd
  

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• Ruby 3.4 highlights
  

  ruby
  

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• Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE
  

  games lua
  

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• Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
  

  practices
  

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• Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over
  

  security
  

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• Postgres UUIDv7 + per-backend monotonicity
  

  databases
  

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• Rules for Writing Software Tutorials
  

  practices programming
  

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• Bogus Software
  

  historical windows
  

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• jj for developing Go
  

  go vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 02, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title
  

  security
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 1 Has been released
  

  release
  

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• How I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
  

  linux
  

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• Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
  

  ai
  

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• Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems
  

  historical windows
  

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• Tools Worth Changing To in 2025
  

  practices
  

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• Databases in 2024: A Year in Review
  

  databases
  

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• I’m Lovin’ It: Exploiting McDonald’s APIs to hijack deliveries and order food for a penny
  

  security
  

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• Compiler Explorer in 2024
  

  compilers web
  

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• Goodbye Github Pages, Hello Coolify
  

  philosophy web
  

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• Migrating Immich from Docker to NixOS
  

  devops nix
  

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• Solving Advent of Code 2024 in Under 1ms
  

  assembly performance rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 01, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Passkey technology is elegant, but it’s most definitely not usable security
  

  security
  

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• Software Design is Knowledge Building
  

  practices
  

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• 3 Shifted 3 Shapes: Making a w3m Logo
  

  design
  

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• Colliding with the SHA prefix of Linux's initial Git commit
  

  cryptography
  

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• What are you planning to learn in 2025?
  

  ask practices
  

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• What is a dependency?
  

  programming
  

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• Demoscene Basics from a Basic Demoscener
  

  graphics
  

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• Performance of LLMs on Advent of code 2024
  

  ai programming
  

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• LineageOS 22 released
  

  android
  

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• Static search trees
  

  performance
  

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• Systems Ideas that Sound Good But Almost Never Work—"Let's just…"
  

  programming
  

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• How webcams with focus control work (Razer Kiyo Pro repair)
  

  hardware reversing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 30, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fish 4.0: The Fish Of Theseus
  

  linux rust
  

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• Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug
  

  hardware historical
  

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• How to add metaprogramming to Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Hello eBPF: Writing a Linux scheduler in Java with eBPF
  

  java linux performance
  

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• How to Create HTML/ZIP/PNG Polyglot Files
  

  web
  

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• Stuff I learnt in 2024
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Django in 2024
  

  python web
  

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• Tips for New Open Source Maintainers (2014)
  

  practices
  

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• James Gosling on Java - Historical Oddities & Persistent Itches
  

  video java
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• IOCCC28, the 40th anniversary contest, is starting tonight
  

  c release
  

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• How I’m trying to use BlueSky without getting burned again
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Visualizing All ISBNs — $10k by 2025-01-31
  

  visualization
  

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• On Ada's Dependent Types, and its Types as a Whole
  

  plt programming
  

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• That's Not an Abstraction, That's Just a Layer of Indirection
  

  practices
  

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• Revisiting the NetBSD build system
  

  netbsd
  

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• Everything you ever wanted to know about “hello, world” but were afraid to ask
  

  pdf c programming
  

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• 38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
  

  databases
  

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• Write your Own Virtual Machine
  

  c
  

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• Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom
  

  culture
  

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• A Simple ELF
  

  assembly c hardware linux visualization
  

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• I Almost Died for a Full Sentry Database
  

  practices
  

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• Keeping secrets secret with git-crypt
  

  practices vcs
  

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