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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Visualizing All ISBNs — $10k by 2025-01-31
  

  visualization
  

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• On Ada's Dependent Types, and its Types as a Whole
  

  plt programming
  

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• That's Not an Abstraction, That's Just a Layer of Indirection
  

  practices
  

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• Revisiting the NetBSD build system
  

  netbsd
  

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• Everything you ever wanted to know about “hello, world” but were afraid to ask
  

  pdf c programming
  

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• 38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Advent of Code 2024 in pure SQL
  

  databases
  

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• Write your Own Virtual Machine
  

  c
  

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• Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom
  

  culture
  

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• A Simple ELF
  

  assembly c hardware linux visualization
  

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• I Almost Died for a Full Sentry Database
  

  practices
  

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• Keeping secrets secret with git-crypt
  

  practices vcs
  

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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 19, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Survey Of System Languages (2024)
  

  plt
  

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• ergo: A modern IRC server (daemon/ircd) written in Go
  

  go networking
  

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• Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Introduce support for the Meson build system - git.git@904339e
  

  programming vcs
  

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• Impressions of React and TypeScript from an Elixir/Elm developer
  

  elixir elm javascript programming
  

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• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
  

  law web
  

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• Fixing C strings
  

  c
  

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• What are temporal and spatial memory safety?
  

  programming
  

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• Effectful - Build Fast & Reliable Haskell Applications
  

  haskell
  

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• Interactive diagrams for complex systems
  

  design graphics visualization
  

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• AI and Internet Hygiene
  

  ai
  

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• Murder Mystery: GCC Builds Failing After sbuild Refactoring in Debian
  

  d debugging linux testing
  

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