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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Vim Clutch | A Hardware Pedal for Vim
  hardware python vim
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• You Can't Prove Everything That's True
  video compsci math
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• Playing with DJGPP and GCC 10 on DOS
  compilers
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• rustc_codegen_gcc can now run libcore’s tests and pass most of them
  rust
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• Exclude lines in less (or journalctl)
  linux
  Comments
• The Unwritten Contract of Solid State Drives
  databases hardware
  Comments
• C++20: Building a Thread-Pool With Coroutines
  c++
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• Writing A Brain**** Compiler, Part 2
  programming
  Comments
• How to maintain your Emacs configuration
  emacs vcs
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• The Kernel Programming Language
  lisp plt
  Comments
• Spot instances for personal servers
  show devops
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• The crypt function from unistd.h as a command
  c crypto linux
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A long rant about Ruby, its value, its innovations, and its (sad) fate
  historical ruby
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• Zig Makes Rust Cross-compilation Just Work
  rust zig
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• Free Your Technical Aesthetic from the 1970s (2010)
  unix
  Comments
• Floppinux - An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy
  linux
  Comments
• NetBSD coding style guide
  netbsd osdev programming unix
  Comments
• Constant-Time Big Numbers: An Introduction
  crypto go
  Comments
• Rust on the Frontend and Backend
  rust wasm web
  Comments
• Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It? (1985)
  pdf hardware osdev
  Comments
• Quickly copy the output of the last shell command you ran
  unix
  Comments
• NNCP: Lossless Data Compression with Neural Networks
  ai compsci
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• My Road to Erlang
  erlang
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• Slashdot interview with Rob Pike (2004)
  historical
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sublime Text 4
  release
  Comments
• Text Editing Hates You Too (2019)
  programming
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• Building LLVM in 90 seconds using Amazon Lambda
  c++ distributed performance
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• Counterexamples in Type Systems
  plt
  Comments
• Some thoughts on APLs (real or imagined) beauty, and the value of very concise languages
  apl
  Comments
• Android 12 will finally let alternative app stores update apps on their own
  android
  Comments
• Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning: 1.2M API req/s on a 4 vCPU EC2 Instance
  performance
  Comments
• Naming Your Lifetimes
  rust
  Comments
• The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
  security
  Comments
• Data61 drops world-class seL4 security team
  formalmethods osdev security
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• Rust heads into the kernel? [LWN.net]
  linux rust
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Teenager's Guide to Avoiding Actual Work
  historical reversing
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• Nyxt browser 2.0.0
  browsers emacs lisp
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• Undefined behavior in C is a reading error
  c security
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• Pinebook Pro first impressions
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Internet Explorer 11 will be retired and go out of support on June 15, 2022
  web
  Comments
• Language Compilation Speed
  compilers performance
  Comments
• Getting a repeatable build, every time
  linux programming unix
  Comments
• Accessibility is hard. It's also your job
  a11y web
  Comments
• Stop building websites for iPhones
  performance web
  Comments
• Why RISC-V doesn't (yet) support KVM
  linux virtualization
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• gmock and gtest on OpenBSD 6.9 hate each other
  c openbsd
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• Modelling data pipelines with Alloy
  formalmethods
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Libera Chat
  culture
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• The Matrix Space Beta
  distributed programming
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• Chad Strings – The Chad way to handle strings in C
  c
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• The state of toolchains in OpenBSD
  compilers openbsd
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• Improving Firefox stability on Linux
  browsers debugging linux
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• Elixir v1.12 released
  elixir release
  Comments
• A retro game engine for Python
  games python
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• NixOS/patchelf: A small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables
  osdev
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• Two Different Views of What Decoupled Code Means
  practices
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• Automatically make unit tests
  lisp
  Comments
• File Descriptor Limits
  linux osdev
  Comments
• An experiment in helping users and web publishers create deeper connections on Chrome
  browsers web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can't Unsee
  design
  Comments
• Khan Academy's migration from Python 2 to Go
  go
  Comments
• Prefer the MIT License
  clojure law
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• Why did Windows 95 keep window coordinates at multiples of 8?
  graphics historical performance windows
  Comments
• The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company
  c hardware javascript python
  Comments
• Introducing Firefox’ new Site Isolation Security Architecture
  browsers
  Comments
• The data model behind Notion's flexibility
  web
  Comments
• Bit banger
  art assembly graphics hardware
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• Communicating sequential processes (1978)
  pdf programming
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• Multiplayer Doom on Cloudflare Workers
  games networking wasm
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• Ghost Killer
  historical security
  Comments
• Reshaping JSON with jq
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Clarity is an underrated skill
  programming
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• Cosmopolitan libc v1.0
  c release
  Comments
• Humanity wastes about 500 years per day on CAPTCHAs. It’s time to end this madness
  security
  Comments
• How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS
  mac
  Comments
• A new service manager for Linux distributions
  linux
  Comments
• A URL shortener with an interesting storage backend
  show go
  Comments
• Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years
  javascript
  Comments
• A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages
  show video plt
  Comments
• NetBSD 9.2 released
  netbsd release
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• Dark Side Of Posix Apis
  rust unix
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• The PGP Problem: A Critique
  security
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• Structuring the System Layer with Dataspaces
  distributed plt systemd
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Home network 10 Gbit/s upgrade
  hardware networking
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• I Have a Lot to Say About Signal’s Cellebrite Hack
  law security
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• systemd: The Good Parts
  video systemd
  Comments
• Actions we propose to take on PR #835 audacity
  practices privacy
  Comments
• migrated back to mariadb; restore traffic and replies
  meta
  Comments
• Observing my cellphone switch towers
  mobile
  Comments
• Nim 2.0 -- thoughts
  programming
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• AI Mid 2021: Self Driving Car Meets Reality
  ai
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• 5 steps to faster web fonts
  a11y performance web
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• Why AI is Harder Than We Think
  ai cogsci
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• Why Heideggerian AI Failed and how Fixing it would Require making it more Heideggerian (2007)
  pdf ai philosophy
  Comments
• How to win at tech publishing
  philosophy
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Things you can’t do in Rust (and what to do instead)
  rust
  Comments
• The Graphics Gremlin: a Retro ISA Video Card
  graphics
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• The Bourne shell and Bash aren't the right languages for larger programs
  unix
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• Paper notes (2019)
  philosophy
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• PipeWire: the new audio and video daemon in Fedora Linux 34
  linux
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• AmigaOS 3.2 for all Classic Amigas released and available
  osdev release
  Comments
• Six Years of Rust
  rust
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• Atomics in Aarch64
  assembly
  Comments
• The Open-Source Software bubble that is and the blogging bubble that was
  historical
  Comments
• Unix Philosophy with an Example
  practices unix
  Comments
• in search of a dynamic medium
  philosophy
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• 5 things I learned while developing a billing system
  finance practices
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
  release web
  Comments
• System76 announced an open source mechanical keyboard "Launch"
  hardware
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• Scala 3 is here
  release scala
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• A love letter to s7 Scheme (2016)
  lisp plt
  Comments
• Rust Weird Expressions
  rust
  Comments
• kracekumar/python-typing-koans
  python
  Comments
• Understanding Nix's String Context
  plt
  Comments
• The stack monoid revisited
  graphics performance
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Learn ORCΛ
  art programming
  Comments
• Fly's Prometheus Metrics
  programming
  Comments
• PostgreSQL: ENUM is no Silver Bullet
  databases
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