The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xfce 4.20 released
  

  release
  

  Comments
• Load is not what you should balance: Introducing Prequal
  

  distributed performance
  

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• Should Programming Languages be Safe or Powerful?
  

  plt
  

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• Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the Commodore 64
  

  historical
  

  Comments
• Far From Random: Three Mistakes From Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG
  

  cryptography
  

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• Solving Advent of Code at Compile Time with Rust Macros
  

  rust
  

  Comments
• Energy-Harvesting Electronic Holiday Card 2024
  

  hardware
  

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• Swift Language focus areas heading into 2025
  

  swift
  

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• WebTransport (WebSockets 2.0) talk at RubyConf
  

  video networking ruby web
  

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• Garbage Collected Smart Pointers in Rust via Concurrent Cycle Collection
  

  compsci plt rust
  

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• Performance of Rust's match vs. lookup tables (2019)
  

  performance rust
  

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• Now we’re all Forked
  

  swift
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Jujutsu version control system
  

  vcs
  

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• "Rules" that terminal programs follow
  

  unix
  

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• 3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or "My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash."
  

  practices release
  

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• Majjit LSP
  

  vcs
  

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• Cursor Size Problems In Wayland, Explained
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• Helix: Why (And How) I Use It
  

  editors
  

  Comments
• The Humble For Loop in Rust
  

  practices rust
  

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• C++ exception performance three years later
  

  c++ performance
  

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• Things You Never Wanted To Know About Go Interfaces
  

  compilers go
  

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• API Design of X (Twitter) Home Timeline
  

  programming
  

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• Less talk, more code
  

  practices
  

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• Programmers want flow. when programming, light turns RED
  

  show culture
  

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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
  

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

  linux lisp
  

  Comments
• How to Think About Time
  

  practices
  

  Comments
• 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 07, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Maliciously crafted GitHub branch name embeds crypto miner into a released package
  

  security
  

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• How to Pronounce Chinese Names a Little Better
  

  culture
  

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• Fedora Moves Towards Forgejo
  

  osdev vcs
  

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• frood, an Alpine initramfs NAS
  

  devops linux
  

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• A simple live calculator with tree-sitter + cranelift jit
  

  programming rust
  

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• Flightle – Web-based 2D sidescrolling flight simulator
  

  show games
  

  Comments
• NASA Graphics Design Manual (1976)
  

  pdf design
  

  Comments
• Breakage! in the Cargo.toml — How Rust Package Features Work (And Break)
  

  release rust
  

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• Reversing Anti-Cheat's Detection-Generation Cycle With Configurable Hallucinations
  

  games
  

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• Start With the Go Standard Library
  

  go
  

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• Launching the 2024 State of Rust Survey
  

  rust
  

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• You can’t get more adversarial than PvP MMORPGs
  

  games security
  

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