The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 28, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Does current AI represent a dead end?
  

  ai practices
  

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• Perfect Desk
  

  design freebsd
  

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• Arcan 0.7 – The All Tomato
  

  api graphics networking release unix
  

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• CobolCraft: A Minecraft server written in COBOL
  

  programming
  

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• Debugging memory corruption: Who wrote ‘2’ into my stack?
  

  debugging
  

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• The Matrix Holiday Special 2024
  

  distributed
  

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• The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
  

  cogsci
  

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• sudo-rs: A memory safe implementation of sudo and su
  

  rust security unix
  

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• Can AI do maths yet? Thoughts from a mathematician
  

  ai math
  

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• Chimera Linux Entering beta
  

  linux
  

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• Running NetBSD 10.1 on a 1998 Toshiba laptop
  

  netbsd retrocomputing
  

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• Electronics Test Gear on the Cheap
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 27, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ghostty 1.0
  

  release
  

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• Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated
  

  api web
  

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• 150 papers for Software Engineers
  

  compsci distributed programming
  

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• Lua is so underrated
  

  lua
  

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• what's some of your favorite software?
  

  ask culture
  

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• Into CPS, never to return
  

  compilers lisp plt
  

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• One day with Zig, Raylib, and jj
  

  games vcs zig
  

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• Accurate Timekeeping in a DAW (2022)
  

  programming
  

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• Seconds Since the Epoch
  

  unix
  

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• USB-C head-to-head comparison
  

  hardware
  

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• How I debugged a 2 year old "fake debugged" multithreading bug
  

  debugging python
  

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• I Thought I Found a Bug…
  

  c historical
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jujutsu Megamerges and jj absorb
  

  vcs
  

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• Ruby 3.4.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• 38C3 lobste.rs meetup
  

  event
  

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• Minimal Version Selection Revisited
  

  practices
  

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• ncurses-rs has been archived
  

  rust
  

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• AI-generated tools can make programming more fun
  

  ai
  

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• What custom keyboard or layout are you using?
  

  ask hardware
  

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• Tiny challenges for learning WebAssembly
  

  wasm
  

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• Symbolic Execution by Overloading __bool__
  

  formalmethods python
  

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• 2024 State of the Adélie Linux Distribution
  

  linux
  

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• Cashing in on GIF by charging royalties
  

  historical
  

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• Serpent OS Enters Alpha
  

  linux release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why we use our own hardware at Fastmail
  

  devops hardware
  

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• Do Not Fix Bugs Reported in Your Open Source Projects
  

  practices
  

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• Plan 9 is a bicycle
  

  unix
  

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• darktable 5.0.0 released
  

  release
  

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• How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster
  

  databases
  

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• Four limitations of Rust’s borrow checker
  

  plt rust
  

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• Introducing S2: The Log – made serverless
  

  databases distributed
  

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• making a website is hard
  

  rant web
  

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• On Long Term Software Development
  

  programming
  

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• CandyFab: A DIY 3D Sugar Printer
  

  art hardware
  

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• State of JavaScript 2024
  

  javascript
  

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• Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++
  

  c++ compilers objectivec
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• fish-shell 4.0b1, now in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• How do you do, fellow web developers? A growing disconnect
  

  culture web
  

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• Java in the Small
  

  java
  

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• Home Manager: dotfiles management
  

  nix
  

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• Elixir v1.18 released: type checking of function calls, Language Server listeners, built-in JSON, and ExUnit improvements
  

  elixir release
  

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• Piccolo OS, a small multitasking OS for the Raspberry Pi Pico
  

  assembly c education hardware
  

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• Announcing Chapel 2.3
  

  plt release
  

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• Eternal Terminal
  

  networking unix
  

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• The RAM myth
  

  performance
  

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• Announcing NetBSD 10.1 (Dec 16, 2024)
  

  netbsd
  

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• Go advanced concurrency patterns: unlimited buffer channels
  

  go
  

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• The Intel 80376 – a Legacy-Free i386 (with a Twist!) (2010)
  

  hardware historical
  

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