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 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Google's official URL shortcut is compromised
  

  security
  

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• Build It Yourself
  

  practices programming
  

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• Tilde, my LLVM alternative
  

  c compilers
  

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• JavaScript Temporal is coming
  

  javascript
  

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• The preview of -fbounds-safety is now accessible to the community
  

  c c++ security
  

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• The Dusa Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• Eve Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• Results! - The Big Array Size Survey for C
  

  c
  

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• The state of Vim
  

  vim
  

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• A WebAssembly compiler that fits in a tweet
  

  compilers reversing wasm
  

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• UI is hell: four-function calculators
  

  programming
  

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• Invalid Niger Nameservers in the com zone
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Examples of quick hash tables and dynamic arrays in C
  

  c
  

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• C stdlib isn’t threadsafe and even safe Rust didn’t save us
  

  c rust
  

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• Elementary Water Rendering
  

  c++ graphics
  

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• Making “this” less annoying
  

  design editors
  

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• Guile Hoot 0.6.0 released
  

  lisp wasm
  

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• Oleg's Programming Site
  

  compsci plt programming
  

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• conduwuit: a very cool, featureful fork of conduit
  

  distributed rust
  

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• "We never update unless forced to" — cargo-semver-checks 2024 Year in Review
  

  rust
  

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• ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (1985)
  

  distributed
  

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• How many Alpine packages can you install at once?
  

  linux programming
  

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• Introducing RealtimeSanitizer for Rust
  

  rust testing
  

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• evo: Version control that works the way you think
  

  go vcs
  

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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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