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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• C, what the fuck??
  c
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• The odd story of how Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound
  art historical windows
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• USB Polling Rate Adventure
  hardware programming
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• Coping with flexbox
  css
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• Why Dependent Haskell is the Future of Software Development
  haskell
  Comments
• Olin Improvements
  wasm
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• Delta chat
  crypto email privacy security
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• Wireguard OpenBSD Router
  openbsd privacy
  Comments
• A rapid admin generator for Elixir & Phoenix
  elixir web
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• Convert file I/O into pipe I/O with /dev/fd
  unix
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• Clojure by Example
  clojure
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• Challenging projects every programmer should try
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• reMarkable: the perfect tablet for academics
  math reversing
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• Poetry 1.0: Python dependency management and packaging made easy
  python release
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• Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers From Their Services
  browsers web
  Comments
• How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer
  programming unix
  Comments
• A/B Street: Traffic simulation game written in Rust
  games rust
  Comments
• Pony 0.33.1
  release
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• A function to sleep a 1000 years: explained
  c
  Comments
• The ARM SoC landscape from OS dev perspective
  osdev
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• Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it
  web
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• Designing APIs for cache friendliness
  api
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• Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Git
  security vcs
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• From iPhone to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
  ios security windows
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The cowardice of Brave
  browsers cryptocurrencies
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• Amazon's Rekognition shows its true colors
  privacy
  Comments
• Why computers suck and how learning from OpenBSD can make them marginally less horrible
  openbsd
  Comments
• vim 8.2 released
  release vim
  Comments
• Experiments in Constraint-based Graphic Design
  design python visualization
  Comments
• Modern garbage collection: Part 2
  java programming
  Comments
• What are your favorite good coding exercies?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Other examples of
  ask programming
  Comments
• Sleep for 1000 years
  programming
  Comments
• Subverting Elm packaging for fun and profit
  elm
  Comments
• Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
  cryptocurrencies
  Comments
• Meshing in a Minecraft Game
  graphics
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Amazon Premium
  programming
  Comments
• Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's dynamic loader (CVE-2019-19726)
  openbsd security
  Comments
• How we use IRC at Last.fm (2009)
  historical practices
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• uni: Query the Unicode database from the commandline, with good support for emojis
  show unix
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• The Growing Problem of Malicious Relays on the Tor Network
  privacy security
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• “Link In Bio” is a slow knife
  web
  Comments
• Introducing sqlc - Compile SQL queries to type-safe Go
  databases go
  Comments
• Why is open source social media unappealing to most?
  ask culture
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• Better UX when reading from stdin
  unix
  Comments
• Using zero knowledge proofs to prove set membership without exposing the set or the member
  crypto
  Comments
• How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time in 2019
  rust
  Comments
• disque, a message queue, is being ported to Redis
  databases
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• osxfuse is no longer open source
  law mac
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• ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop
  hardware
  Comments
• The IntercalScript Programming Language
  art
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• Creating the Ultimate T420
  hardware
  Comments
• Things end users care about but programmers don't
  design practices
  Comments
• Formatting is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Frontend Lobsters, what are your pet peeves about the languages / frameworks you use?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Depending Less on Structure
  compsci programming
  Comments
• A thread about Internet Archive's "Silent Killer"
  web
  Comments
• a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun
  c c++ distributed hardware networking
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• Twitter backing initiative for open and decentralized standard for social media
  web
  Comments
• CI/CD pipelines: Monad, Arrow or Dart?
  devops ml plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Old books worth reading
  ask book
  Comments
• Don't Use Email to SMS Gateways. Please
  email mobile
  Comments
• New books worth reading in 2019
  ask book
  Comments
• Rust is fun
  rust
  Comments
• Declarative UI Patterns in Rust
  video graphics rust
  Comments
• Democratizing AI – Finland offers free AI education to every EU citizen
  ai education
  Comments
• How to write an IRC bot (2018)
  networking
  Comments
• Soundness bugs in Rust libraries: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
  rust
  Comments
• A walk through the Magit interface
  emacs vcs
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• SVG + CSP: An Unappetizing Alphabet Soup
  browsers practices security
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• Chunking Optimizations: Let the Knife Do the Work
  c compilers performance
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• Type Families in Typescript
  plt programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
  databases
  Comments
• WireGuard VPN on track to land in 5.6
  linux networking security
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• Wasmcloud Progress: Hello, World
  wasm
  Comments
• Send SMS using python (Without Twilio)
  programming python
  Comments
• return true to win
  games security
  Comments
• Developers shouldn't distribute their own software
  linux
  Comments
• USB in a NutShell
  hardware
  Comments
• Tests for timezones
  testing
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• O(n^2), again, now in WMI
  performance windows
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• L-systems
  games graphics
  Comments
• Working with letsencrypt’s certbot for a Lisp webserver
  lisp
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• Agner's Software Optimization resources
  api assembly c c++ freebsd linux mac netbsd performance windows
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 9, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Privacy Analysis of Tiktok’s App and Website
  privacy
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• Smalltalk with the GraalVM
  compilers java programming
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• TLA+ for startups (part 1)
  formalmethods
  Comments
• How Amazon builds and operates distributed systems
  distributed practices
  Comments
• Require is an Anti-Pattern
  scala
  Comments
• How to do hermetic builds
  practices
  Comments
• The Go runtime scheduler's clever way of dealing with system calls
  go
  Comments
• Introduction to Gate
  wasm
  Comments
• CompCertM: CompCert with C-Assembly Linking and Lightweight Modular Verification
  assembly c formalmethods
  Comments
• A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
  pdf math
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• The Night Before Code Freeze
  art devops
  Comments
• NetBSD now runs Doom in Linux compat mode (1995)
  games linux netbsd
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 8, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• W3C Recommends WebAssembly to push the limits for speed, efficiency and responsiveness
  api release web
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• Implementing pid1 with Rust and async/await
  rust
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• Haskell vs OCaml
  haskell ml
  Comments
• JSON Support in Oil Shell
  programming unix
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• The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5
  compsci
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• make website - a preview
  unix web
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• Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks (2018)
  science
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• AnyDSL - A Partial Evaluation Framework for Programming High-Performance Libraries
  compilers performance plt
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• File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Backends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution
  historical osdev
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• Elixir Module and Struct Interoperability for Erlang
  elixir erlang
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• NanoNeuron - 7 simple JavaScript functions that will give you a feeling of how machines can learn
  ai javascript programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 7, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby, Where do We Go Now?
  programming ruby
  Comments
• There is no “Linux” Platform (Part 1)
  linux practices
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• Zsh prompt with asynchronous Git status
  unix vcs
  Comments
• Creating a Rootkit to Learn C
  c linux security
  Comments
• Choose Your Docker Base Image Wisely
  devops ruby web
  Comments
• `MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM`: The Biggest Bignum in TI Lisp Machines (2008)
  historical lisp plt
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• Git tips for trunk-based development
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Monads aren't as hard as you think
  haskell python
  Comments
• Strongly Typed Events
  plt web
  Comments
• SwiftLaTeX
  browsers wasm
  Comments
• sysget: A single front end for every unix package manager
  unix
  Comments
• PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious
  databases
  Comments