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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
  crypto go unix
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• Barebones git
  devops vcs
  Comments
• Why Privacy Matters Even if “You have nothing to hide”
  privacy
  Comments
• A personal API
  api web
  Comments
• Readable Code
  practices
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• Sourcetrail is now free and open-source software
  programming release
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• A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines
  programming rust
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• Why Clojure Is My Favourite Language
  clojure
  Comments
• The TLA+ Toolbox
  formalmethods
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• Beginner's guide to networking w/ Golang?
  ask go networking
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• Windows 3.0 Test Drive: a demo, bundled with a magazine
  historical windows
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• std::unique_ptr, or how to express explicit ownership
  c++
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Eternal Novice Trap
  practices
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• A plea to Haskellers everywhere: Write Junior Code
  haskell
  Comments
• glow: a stylish markdown viewer for the CLI
  show go release
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• "server" is hard to define
  devops
  Comments
• Wifi deauthentication attacks and home security
  networking security
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• 36C3 live Streaming
  video event
  Comments
• The Unix C library API can only be reliably used from C
  c unix
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• Astuto: an open source customer feedback tool
  show javascript release ruby
  Comments
• Can We Build Trustable Hardware?
  hardware security
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• My HP 9000 712/60 "Gecko" Workstation (2015)
  hardware historical
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• Simulating physical reality with a quantum computer
  compsci
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• Writing a Vim Plugin
  vim
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Some reasons for Go to not make system calls through the standard C library
  c go openbsd
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• What do you plan to learn in 2020?
  ask practices
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• Firefox contained in Flatpak vs Snap comparison
  browsers linux
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• [36C3] Who is attending? Where are you staying?
  event
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• C Is Not a Low-level Language
  c
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• PicoLisp conf 2020
  event lisp
  Comments
• Booting the HP 712
  hardware
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• Cubbit NAS is an IoT datacenter-trojan for your home
  hardware networking
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• Publish and Perish
  practices science
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• Reproducible MirageOS unikernel builds
  unix
  Comments
• Chrono For Humans
  c++
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• Writing a Chrome Plugin with Elm
  api browsers elm
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tracking flight details while in the air
  programming
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• How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?
  games programming
  Comments
• All you need to know about Ruby 2.7
  ruby
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• Deploying authoritative OCaml-DNS servers as MirageOS unikernels
  ml networking
  Comments
• Happy Holidays From HardenedBSD
  freebsd
  Comments
• The Clojure Mindshare
  clojure
  Comments
• Grumpy Website: Showcase of Bad UI
  design rant
  Comments
• Strict aliasing in GCC
  c compilers
  Comments
• How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16 in 45 days
  distributed scaling
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• The Bitcoin Piñata - no candy for you
  cryptocurrencies
  Comments
• The One Weird Trick SecureROM Hates
  pdf slides ios security
  Comments
• Learning hardware programming as a software engineer
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My Business Card Runs Linux
  hardware linux
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• Mass Surveillance, is an (un)Complicated Business
  ios reversing security
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• My tmux setup
  devops unix
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• luastatus — universal status bar content generator
  show lua
  Comments
• jann - Configuration deployment utility (alternative to GNU Stow)
  linux rust unix
  Comments
• Visual Studio Code port for FreeBSD
  release
  Comments
• Flattening quadratic Béziers
  graphics
  Comments
• Objective-Smalltalk
  objectivec plt programming
  Comments
• On let vs const
  javascript
  Comments
• Why your Python code should be flat and sparse
  python
  Comments
• Java JIT vs Java AOT vs Go for small, short-lived processes
  go java performance
  Comments
• When did we start calling our code "programming languages?
  historical programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protobuffers Are Wrong
  programming rant
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• Sort By Controversial
  ai satire
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• The Lost Worlds of Telnet
  historical
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• Exploiting Null Byte Buffer Overflow for a $40,000 bounty
  security
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• Merry Christmas! What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Learn Rust the Dangerous Way
  c rust
  Comments
• NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
  crypto historical
  Comments
• WTF Python
  programming python
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• Oil Example: Recognizing Python Integer Literals
  programming unix
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• Humourous looks at programming languages
  historical programming satire
  Comments
• Clojure Start Time in 2019
  clojure
  Comments
• When class-based React beats Hooks
  javascript web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The future of the web, isn't the web
  a11y web
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• It's time to start writing
  practices
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• How I set up an IRC daemon on Kubernetes
  show programming
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• The joy of Perl (1998)
  perl
  Comments
• Go + Services = One Goliath Project
  go python
  Comments
• A list of compiler jobs
  compilers job
  Comments
• Anyone Can Build This Open Source, DRM-Free Kindle Alternative
  hardware
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• The Kernel Change That May Be Slowing Down Your App
  devops linux performance
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• Tiny Tiny RSS + Readability == The best way to read RSS feed
  browsers web
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• Which machines do computer architects admire?
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Ember.js: Octane is Here
  javascript
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• On Linux's Random Number Generation
  linux
  Comments
• Sarah2: A strong pen-and-paper cipher
  crypto
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• The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland
  rant web
  Comments
• New to SDR?
  networking
  Comments
• I'm building a tiny CRM for software engineers
  databases
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• In Memoriam: Chuck Peddle
  hardware historical person
  Comments
• My impressions using the System76 Oryx Pro
  hardware
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• Trade Money For Time
  practices
  Comments
• What problem does BERT hope to solve for search?
  ai
  Comments
• ScreensaverStopper, 14kb C++ utility to stop the screensaver
  c++ windows
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• Plasma Mobile as Daily Driver on PinePhone
  hardware mobile
  Comments
• Monica, open source personal CRM
  person web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
  compsci performance
  Comments
• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
  privacy
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• Fundraising for qutebrowser (a vim-like browser) with shirts and stickers
  show browsers vim
  Comments
• Google Reader Killed RSS
  historical practices
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• Use GitHub actions at your own risk
  devops security
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• putting stuff in a proliant dl325
  hardware
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• The Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns
  practices python
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• Optimizing for Size
  c performance
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• Nim Community Survey 2019
  programming
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• Block bad hosts with PF
  networking openbsd security
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• Programming Language for the ancient Chinese
  programming
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• Signal Technology Preview for secure value recovery
  crypto privacy security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• This Page is Designed to Last
  javascript performance web
  Comments
• How tracking pixels work
  privacy web
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• Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision
  practices release
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• Escape from System D, episode VI: freedom in sight
  linux systemd
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• Building a new Win 3.1 app in 2019 Part 1: Slack client
  historical programming windows
  Comments
• A Failed SaaS Postmortem
  practices
  Comments
• Awesome Concurrency with Elixir Tasks
  slides elixir
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• telnet postcard.sfconservancy.org 2333
  graphics
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• What You Probably Didn’t Know About Sudo
  unix
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• citop: Monitor CI pipelines from the command line
  go unix
  Comments
• Alpine 3.11.0 released
  linux
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• Why Functional Programming
  clojure lisp
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