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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
  databases
  Comments
• WireGuard VPN on track to land in 5.6
  linux networking security
  Comments
• Wasmcloud Progress: Hello, World
  wasm
  Comments
• Send SMS using python (Without Twilio)
  programming python
  Comments
• return true to win
  games security
  Comments
• Developers shouldn't distribute their own software
  linux
  Comments
• USB in a NutShell
  hardware
  Comments
• Tests for timezones
  testing
  Comments
• O(n^2), again, now in WMI
  performance windows
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• L-systems
  games graphics
  Comments
• Working with letsencrypt’s certbot for a Lisp webserver
  lisp
  Comments
• Agner's Software Optimization resources
  api assembly c c++ freebsd linux mac netbsd performance windows
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 9, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Privacy Analysis of Tiktok’s App and Website
  privacy
  Comments
• Smalltalk with the GraalVM
  compilers java programming
  Comments
• TLA+ for startups (part 1)
  formalmethods
  Comments
• How Amazon builds and operates distributed systems
  distributed practices
  Comments
• Require is an Anti-Pattern
  scala
  Comments
• How to do hermetic builds
  practices
  Comments
• The Go runtime scheduler's clever way of dealing with system calls
  go
  Comments
• Introduction to Gate
  wasm
  Comments
• CompCertM: CompCert with C-Assembly Linking and Lightweight Modular Verification
  assembly c formalmethods
  Comments
• A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
  pdf math
  Comments
• The Night Before Code Freeze
  art devops
  Comments
• NetBSD now runs Doom in Linux compat mode (1995)
  games linux netbsd
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 8, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• W3C Recommends WebAssembly to push the limits for speed, efficiency and responsiveness
  api release web
  Comments
• Implementing pid1 with Rust and async/await
  rust
  Comments
• Haskell vs OCaml
  haskell ml
  Comments
• JSON Support in Oil Shell
  programming unix
  Comments
• The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5
  compsci
  Comments
• make website - a preview
  unix web
  Comments
• Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks (2018)
  science
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• AnyDSL - A Partial Evaluation Framework for Programming High-Performance Libraries
  compilers performance plt
  Comments
• File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Backends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution
  historical osdev
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• Elixir Module and Struct Interoperability for Erlang
  elixir erlang
  Comments
• NanoNeuron - 7 simple JavaScript functions that will give you a feeling of how machines can learn
  ai javascript programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 7, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby, Where do We Go Now?
  programming ruby
  Comments
• There is no “Linux” Platform (Part 1)
  linux practices
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• Zsh prompt with asynchronous Git status
  unix vcs
  Comments
• Creating a Rootkit to Learn C
  c linux security
  Comments
• Choose Your Docker Base Image Wisely
  devops ruby web
  Comments
• `MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM`: The Biggest Bignum in TI Lisp Machines (2008)
  historical lisp plt
  Comments
• Git tips for trunk-based development
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Monads aren't as hard as you think
  haskell python
  Comments
• Strongly Typed Events
  plt web
  Comments
• SwiftLaTeX
  browsers wasm
  Comments
• sysget: A single front end for every unix package manager
  unix
  Comments
• PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious
  databases
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 6, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Using the same blogging software for 20 years
  c lua programming
  Comments
• How [sl] Switched To Plan 9
  osdev
  Comments
• PJW's Face
  culture historical
  Comments
• Questions About .org
  practices
  Comments
• Inside SoftRAM 95 (1996)
  historical practices windows
  Comments
• Interoperability Issue of Google Mail and G Suite
  email networking
  Comments
• An unexpected benefit of thinking functional in Perl
  perl
  Comments
• Survey of Cowboy Webserver Performance
  elixir erlang performance
  Comments
• Tokio 0.2 - Rust Crash Course lesson 9
  programming rust
  Comments
• What interesting bugs have you fixed recently?
  ask programming
  Comments
• dart2native: Compile Dart to self-contained, native executables
  programming
  Comments
• HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports
  security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 5, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 9front usage
  ask unix
  Comments
• The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed
  java
  Comments
• Authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD
  openbsd security
  Comments
• Constant propagation is now on by default in nightly
  compilers rust
  Comments
• How can you be so certain?
  pdf c++
  Comments
• Big Pile of Vim-like
  vim
  Comments
• The Plain Text Project
  practices
  Comments
• Orbital Elements Calculator
  show graphics science
  Comments
• A week with the Surface Pro X
  hardware windows
  Comments
• VS Code is not what it seems
  privacy programming
  Comments
• Ruby 2.7 adds shorthand syntax for arguments forwarding
  ruby
  Comments
• Solutions to the tiny window manager challenge
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 4, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Microsoft: We're creating a new Rust-based programming language for secure coding
  plt rust
  Comments
• How do you organize your $HOME directory?
  ask unix
  Comments
• Falsehoods programmers believe about prices
  finance practices
  Comments
• Immutable by default
  programming
  Comments
• We did it! How a comment on HackerNews lead to 4 ½ new Unicode characters (2016)
  practices
  Comments
• BPF: A New Type of Software
  slides video debugging linux
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• Jupyter kernel for TLA+
  formalmethods python
  Comments
• Deciding when to collect garbage
  plt programming
  Comments
• moxie: incremental declarative UI in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Procedurally Generated SVG Landscapes
  graphics web
  Comments
• How do you deploy your hobby (web) projects?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Space Invaders in C
  c games
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 3, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How to RiiR
  c rust
  Comments
• Migrationator: Open source tool to help migrate away from Google
  privacy
  Comments
• "On The Metal" podcast announcement
  audio hardware osdev
  Comments
• Go memory ballast
  go performance
  Comments
• A Technical Guide to Version Control System (VCS) Internals
  vcs
  Comments
• cool xmonad hacks?
  ask haskell linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• First release candidate for NetBSD 9.0 available
  netbsd release
  Comments
• Properly managing your .gitignore file
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Offgrid LoRa Messaging
  hardware networking
  Comments
• Email authentication: SPF, DKIM and DMARC out in the wild
  security
  Comments
• Django 3.0 Released
  programming web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 2, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Beware of shell globs
  unix
  Comments
• a smol comic about Clojure
  clojure programming
  Comments
• Zen 2 Missives
  dragonflybsd hardware performance
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• That packet looks familiar, and that one, and that one
  networking practices
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• ‎gccemacs
  compilers emacs lisp
  Comments
• People should aim to make “badly written” code “just work” (2009)
  linux philosophy practices unix
  Comments
• What is Functional Programming?
  programming
  Comments
• Calculus Explained with pics and gifs
  math
  Comments
• The world needs more search engines
  privacy web
  Comments
• Garbage Collection · Crafting Interpreters
  book c compilers plt
  Comments
• New RCS technology exposes most mobile users to hacking
  security
  Comments
• Thermal testing Raspberry Pi 4
  hardware python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 1, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fossil: GitHub Trip Report
  vcs
  Comments
• Crustaceans of Fediverse, where are you?
  ask web
  Comments
• Addressing in AF_INET, AF_INET6 and AF_UNIX sockets
  c linux networking
  Comments
• Raspberry Pi 4 WiFi stops working at 2560x1440 screen resolution
  hardware
  Comments
• efghij - Esolang
  art
  Comments
• Simple Tools for Hobby / Personal Projects
  programming
  Comments
• pash: a simple password manager using GPG written in POSIX sh
  unix
  Comments
• Vagaries of Git Merge
  vcs
  Comments
• the information apocalypse
  ai philosophy
  Comments
• TLA+ model checking made symbolic
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Using `bash`, `sleep` and `procfs` to set up a rudimentary object system
  linux programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments