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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 23, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Linux's getrandom() Sees A 8450% Performance Improvement With Latest Code
  cryptography linux performance
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• It’s normal and it works
  design linux
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• Do not recommend: User Provided Primary Keys
  programming security
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• Dynamic Linking Is Bad For Apps And Static Linking Is Also Bad For Apps
  programming
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• Morbig: A Static parser for POSIX shell
  unix
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• Ways to break into computer science research without a formal education or degree?
  ask compsci education
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• Capcom CPS-1 Graphic system study
  games programming
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• Plex on NixOS
  nix
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• Why I love Ruby
  ruby
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• A psql hack for select * except some columns
  databases
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• IHP: A Haskell Framework for Type-Safe Web Applications
  haskell web
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• cloudflare/tubular: BSD socket API on steroids
  linux networking
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 22, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nix Flakes: an Introduction
  nix
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• rust-analyzer joins the Rust organization
  rust
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• SMTP protocol basics from scratch in Go: receiving email from Gmail
  go networking
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• Breaking the Rules With Stateful Services
  programming
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• Live Streaming a Macintosh Plus
  mac
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• Returning values and errors
  plt
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• Thoughts On Markdown
  web
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• Software I'm Thankful For
  programming
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• Pantagruel Specification Language
  formalmethods
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Data Races in Python, Despite the Global Interpreter Lock
  performance plt python
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• Guido van Rossum interview "Python is half my life"
  historical person python
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Fastest GIF Does Not Exist
  browsers graphics web
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• PyPy v7.3.8: release of python 2.7, 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9
  python release
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• Is Datalog a good language for authorization?
  a11y databases security
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• Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, and HTTP
  browsers networking web
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• Tab Keywords in Firefox
  a11y browsers
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• Hardware Acquisition Hacks
  hardware
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• OpenVi: Portable OpenBSD vi for UNIX systems
  openbsd unix vim
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• What is software engineering?
  practices
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• A Specification of a Note-Taking Program
  formalmethods programming
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• Bagel Bites: Type Refinement
  javascript plt
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• The JDK Flight Recorder File Format
  performance
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• Oh Snap! More Lemmings (Local Privilege Escalation in snap-confine)
  linux security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 20, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OCaml from the Very Beginning
  book ml
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• What do you really get from IDE-driven development?
  philosophy practices
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• Going IPv6 only
  networking
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• Toy Traceroute With Ping
  networking
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• Is Rust the future of software? I hope not
  plt rant rust
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• Using the KVM API
  linux virtualization
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• Exploring OpenType Font Features
  css
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• Seamless, Fearless, and Structured Concurrency
  c performance plt rust
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• The Forgotten Secrets of the First Linux LiveCD (Yggdrasil Linux)
  video historical linux
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• Making A Cross Platform Mobile & Desktop App with Qt 6.2
  c++ programming
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• How I Taught the D Programming Language at a Russian University
  d education
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• The early days of Unix at Bell Labs
  video historical unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 19, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Apple's custom NVMe drives are amazingly fast - if you don't care about data integrity
  hardware linux
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• Virtual Environments and Package Management in Python
  python
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• Skip: A programming language to skip the things you have already computed
  plt
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• How much logic should I keep at the database vs. application layer?
  ask databases testing
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• The Voids of Haskell
  haskell
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• Microcontroller-modified microphone
  show c++ hardware
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• Internals of Go's new fuzzing system
  go
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• Announcing Tokio Metrics 0.1
  rust
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• littlefs: A little fail-safe filesystem designed for microcontrollers
  c hardware
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• The wild west of Windows command line parsing
  windows
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• X Access Control Extension Specification (XACE)
  security unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 18, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Building for the 99% Developers
  practices
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• Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
  a11y practices
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• Debugging an ioctl Problem on OpenBSD
  c openbsd
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• Who is squatting IPv4 addresses?
  networking
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• Uniting the Linux random-number devices
  linux
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• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Haskell
  haskell
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• Nix: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
  nix
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• My Journey from macOS to FreeBSD
  freebsd mac
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• Garage - An open-source distributed storage service
  distributed rust
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• How I tried to invent a new query language feature and failed (because the old one worked fine)
  plt python
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• Haskell Error Messages: Come on
  haskell
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• Go 1.18 Release Candidate 1 is released
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 17, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• redbean – single-file distributable web server
  programming web
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• Lorinda Cherry died recently
  historical person unix
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• PoC||GTFO 0x21
  pdf security
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• What are your favourite small internet protocols?
  ask networking
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• Haskell2020 Is Dead, but All Hope Is Not Lost (2019)
  haskell
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• Zig
  compilers zig
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• Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using
  api web
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• Alternative Regex Syntax
  programming
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• Cheaply writing a fast interpreter
  video compilers
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• The FreeBSD Boot Process
  freebsd
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• More Enum Types
  rust
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• Perl code that is syntactically correct only on Fridays
  perl
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch (in Bash)
  programming
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• A Review of Shader Languages
  graphics
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• A Formal Model of Checked C
  c formalmethods
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• Lineiform, a meta-JIT library for Rust interpreters
  compilers rust
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• Structurally-Typed Condition Handling
  plt
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• vaporup/ssh-tools: Making SSH more convenient
  devops
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• Thousands of npm accounts use email addresses with expired domains
  javascript security
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• Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox
  security
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• Interactive Loop Optimization
  ai c c++ performance python
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• OBS Studio 27.2 on Flathub, get it while it’s hot
  release
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• New Chrome 0-Day Bug Under Active Attack – Update Your Browser ASAP
  browsers
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• If It Compiles It Works
  audio elm plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• quBSD: Qubes-like containerization using FreeBSD jails and bhyve
  freebsd security
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• Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions
  android virtualization
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• Assertion Functions in TypeScript
  javascript
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• How To Design A Chat Bot
  design haskell
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• Single binary executable packages
  programming
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• Project Servo: Technology from the past come to save the future from itself [2010]
  pdf historical rust
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• A reckless guide to OpenBSD
  openbsd
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• Go’s Version Control History
  practices programming vcs
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• An Accessible Introduction to Type Theory and Implementing a Type Checker
  compilers programming
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• MikroTik Authentication Revealed
  reversing security
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• The Blue Box And Ma Bell
  hardware historical
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Devs Use Closed Software
  rant
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• Writing Your Own Sudo
  unix
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• SheepSforza: the SheepShaver Power Mac emulator for OpenPOWER
  historical virtualization
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• The Harmful Consequences of the Robustness Principle
  programming
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• Wicked Invaders: A 1980s-arcade-style game written using HTML5 Canvas and AudioContext
  show games web
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• File-driven testing in Go
  go testing
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• A walk through lightweight blogging
  performance web
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• Oh, wait, actually the best Wordle opener is not “crane”…
  video math programming science
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• Plain Org v1.2 released
  show emacs ios mobile
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• Understanding Attributes, Dicts and Slots in Python
  python
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• Short history of ARMv7/armhfp/arm32 in Fedora
  linux
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• How much disk space you can save by using INT4/INT instead of INT8/BIGINT?
  databases performance
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