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

• Can we communally deprecate git checkout?
  

  rant vcs
  

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• An introduction to Magit, an Emacs mode for Git
  

  emacs
  

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• A look at Firefox forks
  

  browsers
  

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• TinyKVM: The Fastest Sandbox
  

  linux virtualization
  

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• i-cant-believe-its-not-webusb: Hacking around lack of WebUSB support in Firefox
  

  hardware web
  

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• What Programming Concepts do you Struggle to Grok or Use in Production?
  

  ask compsci programming
  

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• IO devices and latency
  

  performance visualization
  

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• Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 / Expat 2.7.0 released, includes security fixes
  

  c programming security
  

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• It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself
  

  compsci games
  

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• fsync() after open() is an elaborate no-op
  

  databases
  

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• did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?
  

  databases debugging
  

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• PAM unixsock
  

  security unix
  

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

• Be Skeptical of All Code - Not Just the Funny Stuff
  

  security
  

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• How we are defending Software Freedom against Apple at the EU's highest court
  

  law
  

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• baffled by generational garbage collection
  

  lisp performance plt
  

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• A Simple Serialization System
  

  c programming
  

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• Qalculate hacks
  

  math
  

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• Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?
  

  math
  

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• Fully Dynamically Linked Rust Binary: An Experiment
  

  rust
  

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• Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget
  

  ai hardware
  

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• Docker Bake is Now Generally Available
  

  devops programming release testing
  

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• Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
  

  games
  

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• The Visible Zorker
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Lume, an MIT-licensed CLI to virtualize macOS environments
  

  virtualization
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres
  

  databases
  

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• Git and jujutsu: in miniature
  

  vcs
  

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• Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1.0
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla
  

  vcs
  

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• Bus Number - The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write
  

  show culture
  

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• VMware Fusion and Workstation now free for all users
  

  virtualization
  

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• PostgreSQL "timestamp with time zone"s set in the future may become silently incorrect if DST abolished
  

  databases
  

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• Rust needs an official specification
  

  rust
  

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• Announcing .NET 9
  

  dotnet
  

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• When to Use Cosmos DB
  

  databases
  

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• 3rd edition of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering book now freely available for download
  

  book release security
  

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• fmt.Sprintf vs String Concat
  

  go
  

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