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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Woo for its own sake
  programming rant
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• Haskell is a Bad Programming Language
  haskell rant
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• Hacking QR code design
  art design python web
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• Science confirms it: Websites really do all look the same
  design web
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• Ray Tracing in pure CMake
  graphics
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• Falsehoods programmers believe about… Biometrics
  programming
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• Reversing TL-WR840N
  hardware reversing security
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• C++ std::async with a concurrency limit (via semaphores)
  c++
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• Why are Reusable Components so Difficult? (2016)
  programming
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• How to Set Up Borg Backup on NixOS
  devops
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• Tails - Deprecation of the Tails Verification extension
  crypto security
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• Polyjuice: Automated, General-purpose Counterfactual Generation
  pdf ai
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 9, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Generational references 2.3x faster than reference counting (unoptimized)
  compilers performance plt
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• Steam's login method is kinda interesting
  security web
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• Lobsters battlestations and screenshots (2021)
  ask practices
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• Why I am Janet
  programming
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• Peter Norvig's Pytudes: Advent of Code 2020
  python
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• Hush Keyboards with Hushboard
  linux python
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• Library Writing Realizations
  practices
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• What are you working on this weekend?
  ask programming
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• How Tail Call Optimization Works
  programming
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• A lean HTML editor with instant preview
  browsers programming web
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• Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach | Lex Fridman Podcast #42
  video ai
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• Scipy Lecture Notes
  python science
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 8, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Plaintext HTTP in a Modern World
  web
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• Rebuilding the most popular spellchecker. Part 1 (Groking Hunspell)
  python reversing
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• My stack will outlive yours
  rant web
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• Introducing Preql - a new relational programming language, that compiles to SQL
  show databases programming python
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• The _intf trick
  ml
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• Encrypted Client Hello: the future of ESNI in Firefox
  browsers crypto
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• Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part I
  hardware mac reversing
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• The GL-MT300N A $20 hackable Linux Router
  hardware linux networking
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• Repair & restoration of a scratched PS2 game disc - How to resurface discs
  video hardware
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• Build tools for a multiplayer browser game
  games javascript web
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• Elegancy of Go's error handling
  go
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• Key Recovery on Google Titan Key
  crypto security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 7, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• dd, bs= and why you should use conv=fsync
  debugging linux
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• What "glue" lanugages do you use/like?
  ask practices programming unix
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• Extracting Files From an Archive Format I Understand Way Too Much
  games reversing rust
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• Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
  art historical
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• Unix shell pipelines have two usage patterns
  unix
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• DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
  ai
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• Wasmer 1.0
  release rust wasm
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• Introducing the tag
  show javascript
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• RISC-V Vector Instructions vs ARM and x86 SIMD
  compsci hardware
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• Who’s at the Helm?
  devops security
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• Lokke: Clojure for Guile Scheme
  clojure lisp
  Comments
• Installing Microsoft Windows 98 in DOSBox-X
  historical windows
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 6, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• systemd user services
  systemd
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• LibreSSL languishes on Linux
  linux
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• Crustaceans, 2021 will be the year of ${TECHNOLOGY}
  ask practices
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• How to Free Disk Space on MacBook used for Development
  mac practices web
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• A few bytes here, a few there, pretty soon you’re talking real memory
  go performance
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• Getting root on a 4G LTE mobile hotspot
  debugging security windows
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• Load testing is hard, and the tools are... not great. But why?
  testing
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• How to Build a To-Do App with Rust – A Hands-On Intro to the Rust Programming Language
  rust
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• Why I Consistently Reach for Server-Driven Content Negotiation (For Versioning)
  api web
  Comments
• What books are you reading?
  ask book
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• How to survive?
  vcs
  Comments
• Handel: procedural programming language for writting songs in browser
  art javascript programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 5, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ditherpunk: The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
  art graphics
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• How to open a file in Emacs
  emacs performance
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• The first two hours of Kakoune in two minutes
  unix
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• Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability
  practices
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• ARM support in Linux distributions demystified
  linux
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• IoT: Internet-Optional Things
  show hardware
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• Learn Go in ~5mins
  go programming
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• hlang in 30 Seconds
  satire wasm
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• Fuzix: A Unix-ish operating system for small machines by Alan Cox
  osdev
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• Minimal base.html
  web
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix
  historical unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 4, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hosting Update
  announce
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• Zig in 30 minutes
  programming zig
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• 
  devops
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• On repl-driven programming
  programming
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• Simple.css - A classless CSS framework
  css web
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• List of some Shell goodies for OpenBSD
  openbsd
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• Rust Design Patterns
  rust
  Comments
• Open Source Design
  design
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• Two Kinds of Code Review
  practices
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• Using checksums to verify syncing 100M database records
  databases performance
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• Your dev environment matters less than you think
  practices programming
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• GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces
  c graphics
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 3, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What RSS reader/aggregator do you use?
  ask web
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• A half-hour to learn Rust
  rust
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• Who's hiring? Q1Y2021
  ask job
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• Encrypted Backup Shootout
  crypto performance
  Comments
• The Great Software Stagnation
  programming
  Comments
• How do you document and track your personal goals?
  ask practices
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• Lets talk about changelogs, or, how I loathe 'bugfixes and performance improvements'
  practices rant
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• ReactOS in 2020
  osdev
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• Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood
  video compsci
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• Deprogramming the Programmer
  philosophy
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• Lichee Nano Pi (32mb ram) - Will it run Debian?
  linux
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• schollz/rwtxt - a cms for absolute minimalists
  web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 2, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• TabFS
  unix web
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• Happy New Year
  meta
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• Bitcoin is a disaster
  cryptocurrencies rant
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• The Tectonic Typesetting System
  rust
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• How Graphviz thinks the USA is laid out
  art visualization
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• State machines are wonderful tools
  programming
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Plan 9 on epaper (SPI driver)
  hardware osdev
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• FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM
  freebsd hardware
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• Pi 0 Audio book player
  hardware
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• How I Improve My (C) Code Quality
  c practices
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• Godot 2020 Year in Review: New Features for Godot 4.0 and 3.2.x
  video games graphics
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 1, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Two Concepts of Legibility
  philosophy programming
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• Hiding messages in chess games
  crypto games
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• Kubernetes Pondering
  devops
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• Nim in 2020: A short recap
  programming
  Comments
• Managing my personal server in 2020
  practices
  Comments
• Contest: Reverse engineering the BioNTech vaccine RNA optimization algorithm
  science
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• PyPy is looking for sponsorship to support Apple Silicon
  python
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• Hacker News vs Lobste.rs in C++, an exercise in parsing json http api's and date/time/timezones
  c++
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• Interview with Donald Knuth
  pdf person
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• Solving a set of linear congruences in Rust
  math rust
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• A case against text protocols
  programming
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• Creating Beautiful Github Streaks
  vcs
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