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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What Is Nix
  devops linux
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• Patent case against GNOME resolved
  law
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• Microsoft loves Linux — a little too much?
  linux practices rant windows
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• The Deprecated *nix API
  unix
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• Firefox Tricks - Using alternate stylesheets
  browsers css
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• Question: How does git detect renames?
  vcs
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• The IKEA effect
  cogsci programming
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• Things I hate about Rust
  rant rust
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• Turning Signal App into a Coarse Tracking Device
  security
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• notqmail 1.08 released
  c email networking release security unix
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• WebPerl
  perl web
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• The HTTP headers you don't expect
  web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Experimental search engine for developers
  show programming
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• OpenBSD 6.7
  openbsd release
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• Why is This Website Port Scanning me
  browsers networking security
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• Remote Code Execution in qmail (CVE-2005-1513)
  email security
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• Red Alert and Tiberian Sun to be released under the GPL
  games release
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• Back of the envelope estimation hacks
  distributed practices scaling
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• The state of the AWK
  unix
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• DirectX on Linux
  graphics linux windows
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• Literate Calc Mode - embedded M-x calc with live updates
  show emacs
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• When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery
  games historical
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• Ray Tracing In Notepad.exe At 30 FPS
  graphics programming windows
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• Zettelkasten — How One German Scholar Was So Freakishly Productive (2019)
  person practices
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The 0 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Stop setting the language of your website based on my location
  web
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• Orb.Farm, a virtual aquatic ecosystem
  show games rust wasm
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• A Brief Exploration of Zig
  programming
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• An open letter to software engineers criticizing Neil Ferguson's epidemics simulation code
  practices science
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• What non-electron cross-platform GUI toolkit do you enjoy using?
  ask programming
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• Ronin: a Lisp-based image processing tool
  graphics lisp
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• Iosevka Font Version 3.0.0 released
  release
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• State of Emacs Lisp on Guile
  emacs
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• Sorcia – a Federated Git hosting engine
  programming
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• Why isn't there a formal grammar for Markdown? (2014)
  compsci
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• Nintendo 64 Architecture: A Practical Analysis
  hardware historical
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Experiences with email-based login
  email practices
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• Making Python Programs Blazingly Fast
  performance python
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• Jitsi: This is what end-to-end encryption should look like
  privacy security
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• RFCs and asynchronous-first culture
  practices
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• Common *nix commands written in Rust
  unix
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• Fragile narrow laggy asynchronous mismatched pipes kill productivity
  distributed networking
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• SIMD accelerated rank/select data structure
  performance rust
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• Some views on having your system timezone set to UTC
  practices
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• The Confessions of the Hacker Who Saved the Internet
  culture person security
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• Quasiquote - Literal Magic
  lisp plt
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• Of Elixir, Phoenix, and analogies to the Prime Directive
  elixir programming
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• Extracting ROM constants from the 8087 math coprocessor's die
  hardware
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• CERN posted build instructions for low-cost DIY particle detector
  hardware science
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• Release Notes: distri supersilverhaze (2020-05-16)
  linux osdev release
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• Serve Videos Instead of GIFs
  performance web
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• About Pool Sizing
  databases
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• The Great CoffeeScript to Typescript Migration of 2017
  javascript
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• macropy: syntactic macros for Python
  plt python
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• The Naked Truth About Writing a Programming Language (2014)
  d plt
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• About the Finder... (2003)
  design historical mac
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• re-frame: clojurescript state management
  clojure
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• Remote education does not require giving up rights to freedom and privacy
  education privacy
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• Ultimate C64 Memory Map
  historical
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• So You Want To Write Your Own CSV code? (2014)
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6
  databases distributed testing
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• Five Years of Rust
  rust
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• Inheritance considered harmful
  programming
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• int random() { return 4; /* Good enough. */ }
  crypto netbsd
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• How to prepare for losing your programming job
  practices
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• Write your own Go static analysis tool
  go
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• TLA+ on OpenBSD
  formalmethods openbsd
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• OpenBSD on the Microsoft Surface Go 2
  hardware openbsd
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• Are We There Yet
  video clojure philosophy
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• The PeerTube content bootstrap fund
  video culture
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• The doomsday machine
  haskell
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• Embedding Objective-Smalltalk
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Deno 1.0
  javascript release
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• Neuron 0.4 - Zettelkasten note management system
  show haskell release
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• An SSL certificate that works for any domain name (tested working in Chrome, Firefox)
  show crypto security
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• Should I use threads?
  programming rant
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• The History of Standard ML
  pdf historical ml plt
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• NuShell: the shell where traditional Unix meets modern development, written in Rust
  rust unix
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• Lomuto’s Comeback
  c++ d performance
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• Is going to conferences useless for learning? How do you learn?
  ask education event
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• Typesetting Markdown – Part 8: Annotations
  show linux programming
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• Why not Haskell? (2011)
  haskell
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• What every developer should know about TCP
  distributed networking
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• Subinterpreters for Python
  python
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tech Notes: The Success and Failure of Ninja
  performance
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• The logging framework isn't a bottleneck, and other lies your laptop tells you
  hardware performance
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• Small, sharp tools can cut you
  practices programming
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• Finding secrets by decompiling Python bytecode in public repositories
  python reversing security
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• Why AES-GCM Sucks
  crypto
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• My New Old Apple IIe Computer
  hardware historical
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• Erlang/OTP 23 Released
  erlang release
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• Keybase, Zoom and Messaging
  crypto privacy
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• Recommended readings for a recent CS graduate
  ask practices
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• Today I Realized that to live reload my Lisp web app is straightforward and so convenient
  lisp web
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• The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers
  culture web
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• When the sum of two actual ux improvements becomes a bigger ux problem
  design practices web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How do you take notes and organize your knowledge?
  ask education
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• WireGuard for OpenBSD Kernel Patches Posted
  crypto networking openbsd
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• Using Rust to Power Python Importing With oxidized_importer
  python rust
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• In Praise of AutoHotKey
  practices windows
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• What the heck happened with .org?
  practices
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• Web Wormhole
  go
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• Spacemacs and My Exit From VSCode
  emacs vim
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• Looking for people who'd like to read CS papers together remotely
  ask compsci event
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• Don't trust default timeouts
  networking
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• The 1-Bit Instrument
  hardware
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• BeOS Intro (1996)
  video historical osdev
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• Network Programming Self-Study
  networking
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