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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A "Better C" Benchmark
  c++ go rust zig
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• Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick
  hardware reversing
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• Fossil Chat
  vcs
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• Yahoo Pipes (2009)
  programming
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• Basic Animation in J
  video apl graphics
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• Donald Knuth’s “Algorithm D”, its implementation in “Hacker’s Delight”, and elsewhere
  assembly c go performance
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• Fully-Featured FM Synthesizer in the Browser made with Rust, Web Audio, and SIMD WebAssembly
  show browsers rust wasm web
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• Computational Algebraic Topology
  pdf math
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• Dependency on mimemagic 0.3.x no longer valid
  law ruby
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• GeoGuessing with Deep Learning
  ai programming
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• esoteric.codes
  art programming
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• Novell Meets Apple: How MacOS Nearly Went Intel in 1992
  historical mac
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace
  release
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• Crystal 1.0 - What to expect
  programming
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• My thoughts about editors in (early) 2021
  emacs vim
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• I finally escaped Node (and you can too)
  elixir nodejs
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• ZGC What’s new in JDK 16
  java
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• Automatic video editing
  graphics
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• ohmyksh - a framework for expanding OpenBSD’s ksh
  openbsd
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• The worst so-called “best practice” for Docker
  devops rant security
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• Plan 9 Historical Releases
  historical unix
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• Safe Systems Programming in Rust
  plt rust
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• SSH Keygen: a 2021 update
  crypto ruby
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• How to create a 1M record table with a single query
  databases
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Really leaving the Linux desktop behind
  linux rant
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• Getting Drunk with Datalog
  programming
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• Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
  browsers privacy
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• There is no such thing as a functional programming language
  plt
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• Darker Corners of Go
  go
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• B2 web UI seems to submit files to facebook
  privacy
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• Export Telegram group chats into static websites
  programming python
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• Vitals: a tiny macOS process monitor
  mac release
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• Interview with curl creator & software developer Daniel Stenberg
  person
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• Choosing a language to replace Javascript (and why it's F#)
  dotnet javascript ml web
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• Drawing GNOME App Mockups
  design
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• History of ZFS – Part 1: The Birth of ZFS
  unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Godot Engine Web Editor
  browsers graphics wasm
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• A look back at asynchronous Rust
  rust
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• An Ode to Stable Interfaces: R and R Core Deserve So Much Praise
  api programming
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• Release of Oil 0.8.8
  programming release unix
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• ARM gcc may generate illegal instructions in place of integer division by zero
  c
  Comments
• What have you failed to build?
  ask programming
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• When you have too much memory for SheepShaver
  historical virtualization
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• Generalized Dollar Cost Averaging
  finance math
  Comments
• Next Generation Shell 0.2.11 is out
  programming release
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• Diagrams for Penrose Tiles
  art graphics haskell math
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• Software Design for Flexibility
  book compsci lisp programming
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• FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Now Available
  freebsd release
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How safe is zig?
  c rust zig
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• A working D compiler on OpenBSD
  d openbsd
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• Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION
  databases performance
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• curl is 23 years old today
  historical
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• System Shock
  games historical
  Comments
• Response to flatkill.org
  linux
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• Securing my IRC (irssi, screen) session with dtach and systemd
  linux
  Comments
• Migrating from LastPass to pass
  android security vcs
  Comments
• LibrePlanet 2021
  event
  Comments
• ZPL: A cross-platform header-only C99 toolkit
  c
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• undocumented instructions in Intel CPUs which control microarchitectural state including microcode
  hardware reversing security
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• Emoji Pixel Art
  javascript web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fontemon - World's first video game in a font
  games
  Comments
• Rust support in linux-next.git
  linux rust
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• Going all-in with Ada: a manifesto
  programming
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• The biggest threat to Rust's sustainability
  rust
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• Linus Torvalds on how AMD and Intel are changing how processor interrupts are handled
  hardware osdev
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• Continuous Typography
  css visualization
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• Cookie Consent Speed Run
  privacy satire
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• A Directory of Personal Blogs, includes search option
  programming
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• Linux perf Examples
  linux performance
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• chibicc - A small C compiler
  c compilers
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• Rust async is colored, and that’s not a big deal
  rust
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• A few notes on message passing
  erlang
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why use old computers and operating systems?
  historical
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• Building a shared vision for Async Rust
  rust
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• Stealing arbitrary GitHub Actions secrets
  security
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• JEP 402: Unify the Basic Primitives with Objects (Preview)
  java
  Comments
• Algebraic Graphs with Class
  pdf haskell
  Comments
• Wayland in 2021
  linux
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• Fancy defines
  lisp
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• Attackers are trying awfully hard to backdoor iOS developers’ Macs
  ios mac security
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• Q&A with John Kozubik, rsync.net
  freebsd person practices unix
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• Build and run GTK 4 applications with Visual Studio
  c++ windows
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• manim: animation engine for explanatory math videos
  math python
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• A curated list of awesome, language-agnostic WebAssembly tools
  performance reversing security wasm
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• GitHub, f*ck your name change
  culture rant
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• frawk, a JITted and SIMD-optimized AWK written in Rust
  rust
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• Illegal content and the blockchain
  cryptocurrencies law
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• Remote X has been a life saver over this past year
  networking
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• runj is Experimental Proof of Concept OCI Compatible Runtime for FreeBSD Jails
  freebsd
  Comments
• How C++ Resolves a Function Call
  c++
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• Robust Soldier Crab Ball Gate
  pdf hardware
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• Unironically Using Kubernetes for my Personal Blog
  devops
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• 17 (ever so slightly) weird facts about the most popular dictionary format
  python reversing
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• Writing Small CLI Programs in Common Lisp
  linux lisp
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• SQLAlchemy 1.4.0 Released
  databases python
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• Charts CSS
  css visualization
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Chicken Story
  programming reversing
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• sd: my script directory
  programming unix
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• Why Senior Engineers Hate Coding Interviews
  practices
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• totally_safe_transmute, line-by-line
  compilers rust
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• Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old 'Pirated' Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS
  law
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• Why We Don’t Use Docker (We Don’t Need It)
  devops
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• Learning About ELF With Zig
  zig
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• WireGuard for FreeBSD in development for 13.y – and a note of how we got here
  freebsd security
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• FreeBSD 13.0: Full Desktop Experience
  freebsd
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• Exploring my doorbell
  reversing
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• What to look for in Fedora Workstation 34
  linux
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• What I've Learned From 10+ Years of Personal Projects and Startups
  show programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust
  c go performance python rust
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• The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t
  historical linux mobile
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• User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints (2018)
  distributed security
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• How to Read ARM64 Assembly Language
  assembly
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Text Adventures: how Twine remade gaming
  games
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• Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm
  graphics math
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• C++ killed the get & set accessors
  c++
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• CSS property usage in the wild updated by Google every 24 hours
  web
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• Why Programmers Should(n't) Learn Theory
  formalmethods plt
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• GitUI anniversary release v0.13
  release rust vcs
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• What's your experience been writing language tools ?
  ask plt
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