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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
  historical unix
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• Playing the Open Source Game
  culture zig
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• RMS addresses the free software community
  culture person
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• Emacs JIT ready to merge
  emacs
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• zhuowei/nft_ptr
  c++ merkle-trees
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• Requesting an "incident" tag
  meta
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• Build a Raspberry Pi Linux System the Hard Way
  linux
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• Wing: blog engine in CHICKEN Scheme
  lisp web
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• Introducing Pipeworld: Spreadsheet Dataflow Computing
  show unix
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• Mugo, a toy compiler for a subset of Go that can compile itself
  assembly compilers go
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• Why does SSL client report google's certificate "self-signed"?
  security
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• guile's reader, in guile
  lisp
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OpenTTD Went to Steam to Solve a Hard Problem
  linux
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• Making the MNT Reform my own
  hardware
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• Linus Torvalds on where Rust will fit into Linux
  linux rust
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• The hidden insights in developers' Google searches
  programming
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• Reconstructing a lost NES game from 30-year-old source code disks
  assembly games historical
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• Court rules grocery store’s inaccessible website isn’t an ADA violation
  a11y law
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• Elixir Memory - Not Quite Free
  debugging elixir
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• Zig Playground
  zig
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• Apple Silicon M1 Power Consumption Deep Dive Part 1: Safari vs Chrome
  mac performance
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• Demystifying programs that create programs, part 1: A disassembler
  assembly compilers
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• Automatically turn on printer when there are jobs in queue
  hardware linux networking unix
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• Workflow: What is it and why should you care?
  distributed go
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Embrace the Grind
  practices
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• uBlock Origin works best on Firefox (technical analysis)
  browsers
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• The state of toolchains in NetBSD
  compilers debugging netbsd
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• Why concatenative programming matters (2012)
  compsci plt
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• What is CapTP, and what does it enable?
  distributed privacy web
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• Was the NE2000 Really That Bad?
  hardware historical linux networking
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• A look at LLVM - comparing clamp implementations
  c++ compilers performance
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• Dissecting the UNIX v6 Allocator
  c historical unix
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• A Ceph war story
  devops practices
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• A brief history of the numeric keypad (2018)
  a11y design
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• Setting up Starlink, SpaceX's Satellite Internet
  hardware networking
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• Oil Doesn't Require Quoting Everywhere
  programming unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Introducing Dawn (Part 1)
  haskell release
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• Proctorio's facial recognition is racist
  ai reversing
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• HAProxy Forwards Over 2 Million HTTP Requests per Second on a Single Arm-based AWS Graviton2 Instance
  networking performance
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• Nix is the ultimate DevOps toolkit
  devops
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• Any advice on declarative macOS configuration?
  ask practices
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• Docker without Docker
  devops linux
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• FreeBSD/arm64 becoming Tier 1 in FreeBSD 13
  freebsd
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• Understanding Atomics and Memory Ordering
  c c++ compilers performance
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• SMS static site authoring with Twilio and Perl
  mobile perl web
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• How I Do Generative Art: In Praise of Netpbm
  art
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• Introduction to Computational Thinking
  compsci math
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 9, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike
  c historical unix
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• How do you monitor your small scale server infrastructure?
  ask practices
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• I Don't Like Your Examples! — (2000)
  culture education
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• Screw it, I'll host it myself
  practices
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• The Benefits of Learning Haskell
  haskell
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• The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup
  devops
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• Sequoia: Super Powering End-to-End Email Encryption in Mozilla Thunderbird
  crypto email release
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• A bit of XENIX history (2014)
  historical unix
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• 1984: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  games historical
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• A brief F# exploration
  dotnet haskell ml
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• Traversing nested data-structures
  programming
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• dvtm: A tiling window manager for the terminal
  unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 8, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Legalizing Gay Marriage in Crusader Kings III with Ghidra
  games reversing
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• What have we lost?
  video osdev
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• Lisp as an Alternative to Java
  historical java lisp programming
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• Update on git.php.net incident
  php security vcs
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• Modern CI is Too Complex and Misdirected
  programming
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• Computer Vision and Embroidery
  programming python
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• Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad
  api osdev
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• Idempotence Now Prevents Pain Later
  programming
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• Is Programming Hard? How Long Is A Piece Of String?
  programming
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• Wuffs the Language
  formalmethods plt programming security
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• Type-safe generic data structures in C
  c
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• Post-flop (turn / river) solver for Texas hold 'em
  ai
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 7, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Breaking GitHub Private Pages for $35k
  security
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• 10 Things I Hate About PostgreSQL
  databases performance
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• Jakub Konka hired full time by Zig Software Foundation
  programming zig
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• Surprisingly Slow
  performance programming
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• What was your first contribution to an open source project?
  ask programming
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• ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse
  distributed web
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• Behind GitHub's new authentication token formats
  security
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• The RustyHermit Unikernel
  osdev rust virtualization
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• Introducing Swift Collections
  swift
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• Bevy 0.5 Released
  games release rust
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• Rust in the Android platform
  android rust security
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• The Fastest, Safest PNG Decoder in the World
  compilers performance
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 6, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 18-956 Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. (04/05/2021)
  pdf api law
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• Google Is Testing Its Controversial New Ad Targeting Tech in Millions of Browsers. Here’s What We Know
  browsers
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• Dream: Tidy Web framework for OCaml and ReasonML
  ml web
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• mrustc bootstraps rustc 1.39.0
  rust
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• Rust generics vs Java generics
  java rust
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• Windows lockscreen bypass on touchscreen with BitLocker
  security windows
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• Docuowl: Stripe-style documentation generator using Markdown
  show go
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• chezmoi (powerful dotfile manager) v2 released
  release
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• Hammerspoon
  lua mac
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• Learning a new codebase: hacking on nginx
  programming
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• yeri: graph timeseries data into an SVG in the browser
  show javascript visualization web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 5, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What problems do people solve with strace?
  programming
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• A CLI email client written in Rust
  email programming rust vim
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• "Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)
  video erlang scaling
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• egg
  plt rust
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• How Runescape catches botters, and why they didn’t catch me
  games reversing
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• Stacked Git
  vcs
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• Oberon on bare metal Raspberry Pi
  hardware programming
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• Goblins: a transactional, distributed actor model environment
  lisp
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• Not Growing a Language
  java plt
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• Space Jam
  performance web
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• Best Privacy Friendly Email Forwarding Service
  ask email privacy
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• Beautiful website generator aimed at math-heavy sites
  show javascript math ruby
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 4, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• This man thought opening a TXT file is fine, he thought wrong. macOS CVE-2019-8761
  mac security
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• grit: A multitree-based personal task manager
  go
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• A Google Interview Question
  programming
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• Are We Automating Racism?
  video ai historical visualization
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• Distributing unnotarized Mac apps in a text file
  mac security
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• Lip Gloss - a CSS-like layout library for your Go terminal apps
  design go
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• On Git Commit Messages
  practices vcs
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• The Sad Truth About C++ Copy Elision
  c++
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• GHC Maintainer Preview Proposal
  haskell
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• Don't use build tags for integration tests
  go testing
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• Security Analysis of AMD Predictive Store Forwarding
  pdf assembly hardware security
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