The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nix - Death by a thousand cuts
  

  nix
  

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• Don't Use Session (Signal Fork)
  

  security
  

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• The people should own the town square
  

  culture
  

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• Justified Text: Better Than Expected?
  

  css design
  

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• Use cases for <form method="dialog">
  

  web
  

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• Why some DVLA digital services don't work at night
  

  historical programming
  

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• YJIT 3.4: Even Faster and More Memory-Efficient
  

  compilers ruby
  

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• The best laptop ever
  

  hardware mac
  

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• The gen auto-trait problem
  

  plt rust
  

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• BASIC Star Trek Games
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• DoomPDF
  

  pdf games
  

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• Thunderbolt ports aren’t all the same
  

  hardware mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fluid Simulation Pendant
  

  art hardware
  

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• Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
  

  vcs
  

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• Usable DOS-based live USB media, for distraction-free writing
  

  show release retrocomputing
  

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• RP2350 Hacking Challenge results
  

  hardware security
  

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• Radical CS
  

  pdf cryptography practices
  

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• Grist - a modern relational spreadsheet
  

  databases visualization
  

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• The missing tier for query compilers
  

  databases
  

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• RSYNC: 6 vulnerabilities
  

  security
  

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• The Campsite codebase is now source available
  

  ruby
  

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• Split Out Unrelated Changes
  

  practices
  

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• Go 1.24 interactive tour
  

  go
  

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• Haiku Activity & Contract Report, December 2024 (ft. Iceweasel)
  

  osdev
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 10, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing Rust 1.84.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Go is a Well-Designed Language, Actually
  

  go
  

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• Why Go Should Sometimes Be a No-Go
  

  go rant
  

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• Not every user owns an iPhone
  

  performance web
  

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• 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 available now
  

  hardware release
  

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• Installing NixOS with the latest kernel
  

  nix
  

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• Northeastern’s redesign of the Khoury curriculum abandons the fundamentals of computer science
  

  education
  

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• Embedding Scheme in Rust
  

  lisp rust
  

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• A Pixel Parable
  

  art games historical
  

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• Arch Linux User Repository Requires Packages To Support x86_64: No ARM-Only Software
  

  linux
  

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• Name Collision of the Year: Vector
  

  databases math
  

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• A simple trick to understand Ruby’s lazy enumerator
  

  ruby
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck
  

  games hardware linux
  

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• Why nextest is process-per-test
  

  rust
  

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• Operating System in 1,000 Lines
  

  osdev
  

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• Six Sins of Platform Teams
  

  devops practices
  

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• broccoli: A robust message queue system for Rust applications, designed as a Rust alternative to Celery
  

  distributed release rust scaling
  

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• Fidget
  

  graphics
  

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• SQLite Archive Files
  

  databases
  

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• How We Cracked a 512-Bit DKIM Key for Less Than $8 in the Cloud
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Bringing SerenityOS to real hardware, one driver at a time
  

  c++ osdev
  

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• An Introduction to Corewar (2009)
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Some Programming Language Ideas
  

  plt
  

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• The short outburst of activity during Ruby Changelog preparation—2025 edition
  

  show ruby
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 03, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
  

  cryptography
  

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• Glue work considered harmful
  

  practices
  

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• Who's Hiring? Q1 2025
  

  job
  

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• sixos: a nix os without systemd
  

  video nix systemd
  

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• Ruby 3.4 highlights
  

  ruby
  

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• Building Game Prototypes with LÖVE
  

  games lua
  

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• Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
  

  practices
  

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• Magic Links Have Rough Edges, but Passkeys Can Smooth Them Over
  

  security
  

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• Postgres UUIDv7 + per-backend monotonicity
  

  databases
  

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• Rules for Writing Software Tutorials
  

  practices programming
  

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• Bogus Software
  

  historical windows
  

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• jj for developing Go
  

  go vcs
  

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