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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 5, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hello world
  performance programming
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• V is for Vvork in Progress
  practices programming
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• Native Applications with Racket
  lisp mac swift
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• Oracle copied Amazon’s API - was that copyright infringement?
  api law
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• “Use Dumb Shell, don’t Reinvent the Wheel”
  rant
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• Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law
  law
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• [What's What] in the World of TeX
  programming
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• Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous
  api performance
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• RISC-V Stumbling Blocks
  assembly
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• Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System
  historical unix
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• Mutexes Are Faster Than Spinlocks
  performance
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• Lean versus Coq: The cultural chasm
  compilers formalmethods math programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 4, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• ESP8266 - 1+ Year 18650 battery lifetime
  hardware
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• Vim9
  vim
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• Why I'm focusing only on some programming languages
  programming
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• On Privacy versus Freedom
  privacy
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• Anybody who writes #pragma pack(1) may as well just wear a sign on their forehead that says "I hate RISC"
  c
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• Don't bet on an expected value
  finance math
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• How I once saved half a million dollars with a single character code change
  java performance
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• What tools do you use to maintain a personal log/journal ?
  ask practices
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• The Simple Haskell Initiative
  haskell
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• Scripting tmux
  linux
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• Make Vim Python plugin 10x faster using Rust
  performance python rust vim
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• Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
  games programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 3, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Good times create weak men
  performance practices
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• The polygons of Another World
  games graphics programming
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• A bug in my ThinkPad's display?
  hardware
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• Putting Devs Before Users: How Frameworks Destroyed Web Performance
  web
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• Python 2 Series to be Retired by April 2020
  practices python
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• EICAR test QR
  security
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• Why I’m still using jQuery in 2019
  javascript web
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• The man who made Wolfenstein
  culture games historical person
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• Making really tiny WebAssembly graphics demos
  art rust wasm
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• Home printer recommendations for free operating systems?
  ask hardware
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• Systemd Is Approaching 1.3 Million Lines
  systemd
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• Things we (finally) know about network queues (2017)
  networking
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 2, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm not feeling the async pressure
  networking python
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• Cutting the Wire
  privacy
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• Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust
  c++ rust
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• Re: The Ecosystem is Moving
  privacy
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• Advent of Code 2019 in Zsh
  programming
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• If you care about user privacy, do NOT use Facebook JS SDK
  javascript privacy
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• Circumventing the JVM's bytecode verifier
  java
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• Godot Engine - A decade in retrospective and future
  games
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• Developer Tropes: "Google does it"
  culture
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• Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
  distributed
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• Atypical: A Differently-Optimized Type System
  plt
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• Migrating my blog from Gatsby to a static site with Cryogen and AsciiDoctor
  web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 1, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Defunctionalization: Everybody Does It, Nobody Talks About It
  plt
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• A few comments on ‘age’
  crypto
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• lilith an OS made in Crystal
  osdev
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• Pi-hole: A black hole for internet advertisements
  privacy
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• Font inspired by paintings of Escher
  art design
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• Three books I enjoyed reading in 2019
  book
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• Measuring Mutexes, Spinlocks and how Bad the Linux Scheduler Really is
  c linux performance
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• Rewtro: play tiny videogames encoded in origami cartridges
  art games
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• SerenityOS was hacked in a 36c3 CTF! (Exploit and write-up)
  osdev security
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• mvdan/sh: POSIX shell in Go
  go
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• Wikipedia removing support for old Android smartphones and "Web Security" software
  browsers mobile
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• Managing my dotfiles as a git repository
  vcs
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• (Blind) software development 450 words per minute
  a11y
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• Magic-Wormhole: Get Things From One Computer To Another, Safely
  networking python
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• API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
  api satire
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• A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations
  video openbsd security
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• The Joys of UNIX Keyboards
  hardware unix
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Distributed systems learnings in 2019
  distributed practices
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• (Very) Basic Shamir's Secret Sharing
  crypto
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• Color Conundrum: Syntax highlighting done right
  design
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• Write a jigsaw puzzle generator in Elm
  show elm
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• Reverse Engineering Carrot Crazy - Part 1 - Passwords
  games reversing
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• DragonBox Pyra prototypes begin shipping (open source handheld gaming computer)
  hardware
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 30, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Google’s Monopoly is Stifling Free Software
  practices security windows
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• The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
  person practices
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• Link’s Awakening disassembly progress report – part 9
  games historical
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• SQLx -- typesafe pure SQL on Rust
  databases rust
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• Purgeable Memory Allocations for Linux
  linux osdev
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• The passing of ucbvax
  historical
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• Encoding your WiFi access point password into a QR code
  networking
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• The Type System of the Future
  plt
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• apt-tool: an alternative to debootstrap and multistrap for deterministic and predictable root filesystems. - Paul Knopf
  dotnet linux
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• Walking the faster-than-light tightrope: quantum entanglement and the CHSH game
  compsci
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• The story of the Multics Operating system
  historical unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool
  crypto go unix
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• Barebones git
  devops vcs
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• Why Privacy Matters Even if “You have nothing to hide”
  privacy
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• A personal API
  api web
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• Readable Code
  practices
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• Sourcetrail is now free and open-source software
  programming release
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• A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines
  programming rust
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• Why Clojure Is My Favourite Language
  clojure
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• The TLA+ Toolbox
  formalmethods
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• Beginner's guide to networking w/ Golang?
  ask go networking
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• Windows 3.0 Test Drive: a demo, bundled with a magazine
  historical windows
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• std::unique_ptr, or how to express explicit ownership
  c++
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 28, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Eternal Novice Trap
  practices
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• A plea to Haskellers everywhere: Write Junior Code
  haskell
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• glow: a stylish markdown viewer for the CLI
  show go release
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• "server" is hard to define
  devops
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• Wifi deauthentication attacks and home security
  networking security
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• 36C3 live Streaming
  video event
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• The Unix C library API can only be reliably used from C
  c unix
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• Astuto: an open source customer feedback tool
  show javascript release ruby
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• Can We Build Trustable Hardware?
  hardware security
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• My HP 9000 712/60 "Gecko" Workstation (2015)
  hardware historical
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• Simulating physical reality with a quantum computer
  compsci
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• Writing a Vim Plugin
  vim
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 27, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Some reasons for Go to not make system calls through the standard C library
  c go openbsd
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• What do you plan to learn in 2020?
  ask practices
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• Firefox contained in Flatpak vs Snap comparison
  browsers linux
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• [36C3] Who is attending? Where are you staying?
  event
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• C Is Not a Low-level Language
  c
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• PicoLisp conf 2020
  event lisp
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• Booting the HP 712
  hardware
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• Cubbit NAS is an IoT datacenter-trojan for your home
  hardware networking
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• Publish and Perish
  practices science
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• Reproducible MirageOS unikernel builds
  unix
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• Chrono For Humans
  c++
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• Writing a Chrome Plugin with Elm
  api browsers elm
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