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

• Nobody Gets Fired for Picking JSON, but Maybe They Should?
  

  api
  

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• Forced to upgrade
  

  hardware
  

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• All Your Codebase
  

  c c++ zig
  

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• Mozilla Firefox removes "Do Not Track"
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• A brief history of Mac servers
  

  historical mac
  

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• The Google Willow thing
  

  programming
  

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• Rails is better low code than low code
  

  ruby
  

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• The new Vim project - What has changed after Bram
  

  video vim
  

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• Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID)
  

  web
  

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• How to Actually Migrate Complex Systems in Infrastructure
  

  devops
  

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• Binary Versioning 1.0.0
  

  practices satire
  

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• Render README.org as HTML on Sourcehut
  

  emacs
  

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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
  

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• 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 10, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop
  

  ai
  

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• Compromising OpenWrt Supply Chain via Truncated SHA-256 Collision and Command Injection
  

  security
  

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• The Shepherd 1.0.0 released: the init system written in Scheme
  

  linux lisp
  

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• How to Think About Time
  

  practices
  

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• Memory-safe PNG decoders now vastly outperform C PNG libraries
  

  performance rust
  

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• Reducing CO₂ emissions with faster software
  

  performance
  

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• The rule of least client-side complexity
  

  javascript web
  

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• Should std::expected be [[nodiscard]]?
  

  c++
  

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• Defusing AGPL-3 With Batch Processing
  

  law rant
  

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• Jepsen Test on Patroni: A PostgreSQL High Availability Solution
  

  databases
  

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• Himalaya, CLI to manage emails: v1.0.0
  

  email release rust
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protect mode support in the original Windows 3.0 was basically a 1-man skunkworks project
  

  historical windows
  

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• Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit
  

  networking
  

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• The errors of TeX
  

  pdf historical practices
  

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• The Pentium FDIV bug, reverse-engineered
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad
  

  rant
  

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• qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt
  

  browsers
  

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• React 19 is now stable
  

  javascript release web
  

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• Galloping Search
  

  programming
  

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• How a solar Minecraft server is changing the way we play video games
  

  education games
  

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• Designing a const `array::from_fn` in stable Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Intuition in Software Development
  

  philosophy
  

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• How do I pay the publisher of a web page?
  

  finance web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Firefox is the superior browser
  

  browsers
  

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• Writing down (and searching through) every UUID
  

  math programming
  

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• Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 1: Algorithms for offline editing
  

  distributed
  

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• Advent of Criminally Bad Ruby Code
  

  ruby
  

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• The Biggest Shell Programs in the World (wiki)
  

  programming unix
  

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• Turn Android Phone to Batteryless Home Server
  

  hardware
  

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• Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing
  

  databases historical
  

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• Debian opens a can of username worms
  

  linux
  

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• Box64 v0.3.2 and Box86 v0.3.8 released
  

  assembly games linux
  

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• Understanding the Odin Programming Language
  

  book programming
  

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• funding.json - an open manifest for describing financial requirements for FOSS projects
  

  a11y practices
  

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• Why it took a long time to build that tiny link preview on Wikipedia [2018]
  

  web
  

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