The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Apple's Software Quality Crisis: When Premium Hardware Meets Subpar Software
  

  ios rant
  

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• Tangled — a git collaboration platform built on atproto
  

  show distributed vcs
  

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• Effective Rust
  

  rust
  

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• illuminant - ActivityPub server with NNTP interface
  

  distributed haskell web
  

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• Why Can’t We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices?
  

  mac
  

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• The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three
  

  hardware historical
  

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• How fast can you open 1000 files?
  

  linux mac
  

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• Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn
  

  rust
  

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• Cleaner codebase, happier mind
  

  practices
  

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• VT220 font emulation in browser
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• A Mechanically Verified Garbage Collector for OCaml
  

  pdf formalmethods ml
  

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• Emacs Tree-sitter custom highlighting, part 1
  

  emacs
  

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

• How Copyover MUD Servers Worked
  

  c unix
  

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• Undergraduate Invents Faster Hash Table
  

  compsci
  

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• You Should Use /tmp/ More
  

  practices
  

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• We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly
  

  go web
  

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• Some terminal frustrations
  

  osdev
  

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• Your AI can’t see gorillas
  

  ai visualization
  

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• pkarr: Public Key Addressable Resource Records (sovereign TLDs)
  

  distributed
  

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• A catalog of ways to generate SSA
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Free Wiki Hosting, No Ads
  

  web
  

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• Introduction to Operating System Abstractions using Plan 9
  

  osdev
  

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• NixOS and Actually Portable Executables
  

  linux nix
  

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• Boring tech is mature, not old
  

  rant
  

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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 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 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OpenAI quietly funded independent math benchmark before setting record with o3
  

  ai
  

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• The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
  

  historical rant
  

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• Automatic Server Reloading in Rust on Change
  

  rust
  

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• When the Simplest Concurrent Program Goes Against All Intuition
  

  compsci formalmethods
  

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• dinit: Service monitoring / "init" system
  

  linux
  

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• Hash Design and Goodhart's Law
  

  compsci math performance
  

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• Poisoning AI scraper responses with Versara
  

  release web
  

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• Migrating away from bcachefs
  

  linux
  

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• Using eSIMs with devices that only have a physical SIM slot via a 9eSIM SIM card with Android and Linux
  

  hardware linux
  

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• The surprising struggle to get a UNIX Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++
  

  c c++ programming unix
  

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• Encrypted NixOS home server with passwordless reboot
  

  linux nix
  

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• Yet Another Perl-Powered Company: Geolytica
  

  perl
  

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