The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal
  

  cryptography
  

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• New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code
  

  a11y ai philosophy
  

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• nes86: x86 emulation on the NES
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• ACCESS.bus: The Forgotten USB Competitor
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• These years in Common Lisp: 2023-2024 in review
  

  lisp
  

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• 0+0 > 0: C++ thread-local storage performance
  

  c c++ performance
  

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• The Mac Menubar and SwiftUI
  

  mac swift
  

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• What to do about SQLITE_BUSY errors despite setting a timeout
  

  databases
  

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• ArcaOS 5.1.1 released (modern OS/2)
  

  osdev release
  

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• Code Style Sheets: CSS for Code
  

  pdf css plt
  

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• New "faux bus" API merged for Linux 6.14, including both Rust & C bindings
  

  linux
  

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• Choosing a browser
  

  browsers philosophy privacy security
  

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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 February 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hollywood: split a computer console into multiple panes of genuine technical melodrama
  

  art
  

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• Five coding hats
  

  practices
  

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• Python free-threading guide
  

  python
  

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• Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
  

  privacy
  

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• Learn Common Lisp by Example: GTK GUI with SBCL
  

  lisp
  

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• RUSTSEC-2025-0004: openssl: ssl::select_next_proto use after free
  

  rust security
  

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• A selfish personal argument for releasing code as Open Source
  

  culture
  

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• it - utilities
  

  go
  

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• Safety in Programming Languages is a Means to an End
  

  plt programming testing
  

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• PanGui - A cross-platform UI library with a razor sharp focus on performance, simplicity and expressive power
  

  programming
  

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• Optimizing with Novel Calendrical Algorithms
  

  performance
  

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• For Sale: Binaries Compiled From Hand-Crafted Artisanal Code
  

  ai
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sunsetting Cursed Terminal Emulation
  

  osdev
  

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• A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
  

  compilers
  

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• You're thinking about passkeys wrong
  

  security web
  

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• My history with Forth & stack machines (2010)
  

  programming
  

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• MLX — Distributed Computing for Apple Silicon
  

  ai
  

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• Testable Examples in Go
  

  go testing
  

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• Can We Retain the Benefits of Transitive Dependencies Without Undermining Security?
  

  practices programming
  

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• Daily command-line ablutions
  

  practices
  

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• We got hit by an alarmingly well-prepared phish spammer
  

  security
  

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• Handwiki
  

  compsci science
  

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• Data Protection Day: Only 1.3% of cases before EU DPAs result in a fine
  

  privacy
  

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• Bidirectional Typechecking is Bidirectional
  

  plt
  

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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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