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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Deploying a Lobsters Clone: What I Learned
  show web
  Comments
• Pijul - The Mathematically Sound Version Control System Written in Rust
  vcs
  Comments
• Undeleting a file overwritten with mv
  programming
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• A better Kubernetes, from the ground up
  distributed
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• Reasons why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance
  databases
  Comments
• mhx/dwarfs: A fast high compression read-only file system
  programming
  Comments
• Run Python Applications Efficiently With malloc_trim
  programming python
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• Why doesn't Rust's BTreeMap have a with_capacity() method?
  rust
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• The Secrets of Monkey Island's Source Code
  games historical
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• GPG And Me
  email privacy security
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• Everything you need to know before try Emacs
  emacs
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• Text Only Websites
  browsers web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Stupid light software
  programming
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• On the Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro
  hardware mac
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• Lightning Introduction to Nix for Developers
  programming
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• No Config for Old Men
  practices rant
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• ReStuff: StuffIt as a Service
  historical mac
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• jointwt/twtxt is a Self-Hosted, Twitter™-like Decentralised microBlogging platform
  go programming
  Comments
• The Time I Wrote a White Noise Generator To Improve Loading Times
  javascript web
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• A Byzantine failure in the real world
  distributed
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• Stitcherd - Dynamic content for static sites
  show go web
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• Interval Tree Clocks
  distributed
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• Genode OS Framework 20.11
  osdev release
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• The Cult of Posits
  math programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My list of magic numbers for your turkey day enjoyment
  compsci debugging programming
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• SQLite as a document database
  databases
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• The NoJS Club
  show web
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• Digital Tools I Wish Existed
  practices
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• Lib-Ruby-Parser: A Ruby Parser Written in Rust
  ruby rust
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• 1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby
  ruby
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• The Unix Command Language - Ken Thompson (1976)
  historical unix
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• Why you should use Zig for your Elixir Nifs
  video elixir zig
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• Exactly how much physical memory is installed?
  linux
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• Mastering UNIX pipes, Part 1
  c freebsd linux netbsd openbsd
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• Parse, don’t type-check
  plt
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• How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
  linux
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protect domains that don’t send email
  email security
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• Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad
  api performance
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• I Spent 11 Years Working on This Line Rider Track
  art graphics
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• Git9 is self hosted now: Hosting git on Plan 9
  programming vcs
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• reasoning about colors
  art
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• Why you should use `nproc` and not grep /proc/cpuinfo
  linux
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• Cordless project closed down
  law
  Comments
• Filesystem and Database are not cutting the problem space right
  databases programming
  Comments
• PHP 8 Released
  php release
  Comments
• Rebuilding the Racket Compiler with Chez Scheme
  lisp programming
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• Blender 2.91
  graphics release
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• quiver: a modern commutative diagram editor
  show math
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• An API is a user interface
  api programming
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• What should a new OS have?
  ask osdev
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• A WIP CLI for Lobsters
  show programming
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• Rust library for homomorphic hashing
  show crypto release rust
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• FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet
  freebsd
  Comments
• Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 3 (Effect Systems)
  plt
  Comments
• Why I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
  web
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• PAM Bypass: when null(is not)ok
  linux security
  Comments
• Nix(OS) Thoughts
  linux
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• Someone attacked our company
  security
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• Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method (2014)
  education
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• Distributed Systems with Node.js: Building Enterprise-Ready Backend Services (2020, O'Reilly)
  distributed nodejs
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You might not need machine learning
  ai
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• Smithy --- A tiny git forge written in Go
  show go vcs
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• An opinionated list of best practices for textual websites
  web
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• Ruby on Rails: Still the Best Web App Framework for Most Teams
  ruby
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• What went wrong with the libdispatch. A tale of caution for the future of concurrency
  api
  Comments
• WireGuard for Windows 0.3: ARM support, enterprise features, & more
  crypto networking windows
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• Vulkan implementation for Rasperry Pi 4 is now conformant
  graphics
  Comments
• Cover Your Tracks - See how trackers view your browser
  privacy web
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• Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
  culture programming rust
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• Advice on advanced degrees in computer science?
  ask education
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• Play: Statically typed Forth, compiled to WASM
  elm plt wasm
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• 1x Forth by Charles Moore 4/13/99
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Getting started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi
  linux virtualization
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• Bitbucket is developer hell
  rant vcs
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• The Raspberry Pi makes a great USB webcam for $100
  hardware linux
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• A practical guide to URI encoding and URI decoding
  web
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• These are called opportunities
  performance
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• r/perl - Where is Perl used these days?
  perl
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• A magic eye that makes magic eyes
  art perl
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• If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
  databases
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• Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls
  linux security
  Comments
• DOOM on the Nintendo Game and Watch
  video hardware reversing
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• GNU Guix 1.2.0 released
  linux
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Booting from a vinyl record
  historical
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• PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Apple ARM M1 MacBook Pro 2020
  databases
  Comments
• How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
  linux
  Comments
• 250kb Club
  web
  Comments
• Glade Not Recommended
  linux
  Comments
• Haskell Proposal: Simplify Deriving
  haskell plt
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• Yellowstone Back From the Dead
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Even faster bash startup
  performance unix
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• OpenWrt and self-signed certificates
  security
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• GitHub Issues As Comments
  web
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• rust-script - Run Rust files and expressions as scripts without any setup or compilation step
  rust
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• Pikelet is a small, functional, dependently typed programming language
  plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers
  databases linux
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• What small change(s) has made a large impact on your life?
  ask practices
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• A Taste of OCaml's Predictable Performance
  assembly ml
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• Intro to DDlog
  compilers plt rust
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• Optimizing Your Web App 100x is Like Adding 99 Servers
  performance scaling
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• How to Setup Prometheus, Grafana and Loki on NixOS
  devops
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• A few ways to make money in FOSS
  culture
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• Shaking Down the Raspberry Pi 400
  linux programming
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• Exploiting dynamic rendering engines to take control of web apps
  security web
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• systemd targets and infrastucture layers
  systemd
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• Branch Prediction Is Not a Solved Problem
  hardware
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Starting January 4, Google will block all sign-ins to Google accounts from embedded browsers
  browsers
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• The tab programming language
  plt unix
  Comments
• An experimental O(1) Garbage Collector
  show plt programming
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• Introducing Bupstash
  release
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• Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
  linux windows
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• Nyxt browser Dashboard
  browsers emacs
  Comments
• Eight years of engine development at Roblox
  graphics performance
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• Before the BSD Kernel starts: Part One on AMD64
  netbsd osdev
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• Tailscale on OpenBSD
  openbsd
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• Caramel: an OCaml to Erlang compiler
  erlang ml
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• Executives don’t understand software and that’s a problem
  practices
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• Developing Wayland Color Management and High Dynamic Range
  graphics linux
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