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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nim v1.6.0 released
  programming release
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• How BSD Authentication Works
  openbsd
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• IHP v0.15.0 has been released
  haskell release web
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• Proper use of the author checkbox
  meta
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• Trustworthy computing in 2021
  security
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• What's in a hostname?
  networking programming
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• Why you shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
  python
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• The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
  perl rant
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• Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment
  freebsd
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• Cracking Random Number Generators using Machine Learning – Part 2: Mersenne Twister
  ai cryptography
  Comments
• The Challenges of Fuzzing 5G Protocols
  security
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• Early days of Unix and design of sh
  video historical unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What to learn
  practices programming
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• Arthur-PC - a HD64180 based computer
  hardware historical
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• What every software engineer should know about search (2017)
  programming
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• My story of Javascript dependency woes
  javascript practices rant
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• L0phtCrack is now open source
  security
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• Printf("%s %s", dependency, injection)
  compsci
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• Features of Excellent Code Review Tools
  practices
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• Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3
  python testing
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• ArcaOS: Using OS/2 In 2021 - Install and Review
  video historical
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• Where would you start with a new desktop environment for Linux?
  ask graphics linux
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• What =delete means
  c++
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A viable solution for Python concurrency
  python
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• OpenTTD 12.0 released
  c++ games release
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• Our Algorithm Problem Solving Club Is Beginning This Week
  math programming
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• nLab
  math philosophy
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• Genode - Sculpt Operating System 21.10
  osdev security
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• Stiff asks, great programmers answer (2006)
  historical person
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• Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers Running on the Right Time Zone
  linux person
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• Implementation of in-memory hash tables for Tcl
  c
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• Three tools to profile django app
  python
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• include-what-you-use - A tool for use with clang to analyze #includes in C and C++ source files
  c c++ performance
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• Optimization without Inlining
  c++ performance
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• Scene at MIT: Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo code (2016)
  historical
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What we can learn from "_why" the long lost open source developer
  programming ruby
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• NixOS in the Cloud, step-by-step
  devops linux
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• Pip vs Conda: an in-depth comparison of Python’s two packaging systems
  python
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• Don’t change the Go standard library because of generics yet
  go
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• Feedback Loops are Bullshit
  philosophy practices
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• Implementing Hash Tables in C
  c programming
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• Putting Judge to the test
  lisp testing
  Comments
• Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust
  performance
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• Feature freeze for C23
  c
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• minias - A mini x86-64 assembler for fun and learning
  assembly programming release
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• The lost art of software design
  pdf slides practices
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• Reverse engineering a thermal printer's WiFi setup commands
  hardware
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• October Update: Introducing the PinePhone Pro
  hardware linux mobile
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• Python Multithreading without GIL
  python
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• How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%
  windows
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• Speed matters
  practices programming
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• Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
  design
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• Phantom Types in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• LANtenna attack reveals Ethernet cable traffic contents
  networking security
  Comments
• Designing an API Client in Rust: New Rspotify Version a Year Later
  api practices rust
  Comments
• Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning
  pdf privacy security
  Comments
• Paradox of the perfect code editor
  programming
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• Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
  practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OpenBSD 7.0
  openbsd release
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• Announcing Parcel v2
  javascript release rust
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• Lightning-fast rebases with git-move
  vcs
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• Hacking YouTube With MP4
  security
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• Ubuntu 21.10 has landed
  linux release
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• You Already Know Formal Methods
  formalmethods
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• Selling Lisp by the Pound
  lisp
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• DOOM Rendered via Checkboxes
  javascript web
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• Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (1996)
  pdf plt
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• Migrations: migrating attributes, pt. I
  databases
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• Memory-Model Recommendations for Rusting the Linux Kernel
  linux rust security
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• Verification for Dummies: SMT and Induction
  plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District
  security
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• Relational Databases Aren’t Dinosaurs, They’re Sharks
  databases
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• Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021
  assembly
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• Psycopg 3.0 released
  databases python
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• The 100 MHz 6502
  hardware historical
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• FreeBSD audio from a perspective of a happy user
  freebsd
  Comments
• How APT does its fancy progress bar?
  python
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• Cwtch: Decentralized, Surveillance Resistant Infrastructure
  privacy security
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• Interface ergonomics: automation isn't just about time saved
  programming
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• It's Ada Lovelace Day! Learn the Ada programming language in 2021
  devops osdev programming
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• compudanzas — uxn tutorial
  assembly
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• Circular Harmonics
  math
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rust and GCC, two different ways
  compilers rust
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• YoHa: A Practical Hand Tracking Engine
  show graphics
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• A Case Against Lookup Tables
  performance programming
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• Quadlet, an easier way to run system containers [with podman]
  systemd
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• Building Tiny Raspberry Pi Linux Images With Buildroot
  hardware linux
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• Interview with Bill Joy (1984)
  historical unix
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• algoheader: Programmatically generate beautiful header images for blogs or social media accounts
  ruby
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• The Return of the Unix Shell
  unix
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• About Halo game's backend
  games scaling
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• How to win at CORS
  browsers web
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• The problem with macros
  lisp plt
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• How (not) to use readdir_r(3) (2012)
  security unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• RIP Jörg Schilling
  person
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• Scribe - An alternative frontend to medium.com
  show release
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• I keep making things out of checkboxes
  art browsers graphics
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• EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug
  law
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• When can glibc be built with Clang?
  c linux
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• Better operator precedence
  plt
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• Parsing JSON is a Minefield (2018)
  programming
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• Fleeting Memories of Youth and the Increasing Impermanence of Culture
  historical
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• Memcached vs Redis - More Different Than You Would Expect
  databases
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• Conditional Border Radius In CSS
  css
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• Apple II Programming
  audio 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 October 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• nix-gui: Use NixOS Without Coding
  linux osdev programming
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• SerenityOS: Year 3 in review
  c++ osdev
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• V7 Unix had no stack size limit, and when Unix acquired one
  c unix
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• An IDE for the Oberon+ programming language using Mono/CLI instead of LuaJIT
  c++ compilers dotnet programming
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• Lisp in a weekend
  c lisp
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• Finding and reporting an asyncio bug in Python 3.10
  python
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• Improving Git's Autocorrect Feature
  vcs
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• Setting up IPv6 on a Linux Router
  linux networking
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• When JPEGs compress worse than PNGs
  graphics
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• Singularity – Microsoft’s Experimental OS
  dotnet osdev
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• The Immaturity of JavaScript
  javascript rant
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• ProleText
  historical
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