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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tuple Spaces (or, Good Ideas Don't Always Win) (2011)
  distributed programming
  Comments
• Microdefects
  practices
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• Fennel 1.0.0 released
  lisp lua release
  Comments
• Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack?
  debugging
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• Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos
  hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• Easily build NodeJS projects inside a docker container
  devops practices
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• Dolphin Progress Report: September and October 2021
  programming
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• How do hardware timers work?
  video hardware
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• GitHub - kuroko-lang/kuroko: Dialect of Python with explicit variable declaration and block scoping
  plt programming python
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• Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects
  javascript plt
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• Cammy
  show art plt
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• /dev/random - A New Approach
  video cryptography linux
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The weirdest bug I've ever encountered
  c debugging
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• Frictionless external backups with systemd
  systemd
  Comments
• Build a Redis Protocol Server with Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Infinitely Nested Dictionary
  python
  Comments
• Dangerously user-friendly web server for quick prototyping and hackathons
  show go web
  Comments
• Factor: a dynamic stack-based programming language (2010)
  pdf plt
  Comments
• Rust data structures with circular references
  rust
  Comments
• dte: A language for expressing and calculating date and time
  programming
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• Macrobrew: Clojure macros distilled
  clojure
  Comments
• Efficient matrix multiplication
  math performance
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• PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 emulator - Q3 2021 Progress Report
  historical virtualization
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• Beware of fast-math
  performance programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Coming Firmware Revolution
  video rust
  Comments
• It's Now Possible To Sign Arbitrary Data With Your SSH Keys
  security
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• Backpressure And The Replicator
  networking performance
  Comments
• Spotify Codes - Part 2
  programming
  Comments
• Useful sed
  linux programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• SDL Next-Gen rendering API
  api c games graphics
  Comments
• Nixers.net Conf 2021
  video event
  Comments
• Blockchain Without the Crypto
  databases
  Comments
• coalton-lang: a statically typed functional programming language that supercharges Common Lisp
  lisp
  Comments
• Ruby vs Python comes down to the for loop
  python ruby
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• Rusty results
  python
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Plain Org has joined the chat (iOS)
  show emacs ios
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• NixOps is easier than I thought
  devops
  Comments
• 10 Image File Formats That Didn’t Make It
  graphics historical
  Comments
• mermaid - Markdownish syntax for generating diagrams
  javascript visualization
  Comments
• Rust Iterator Items: An exploration of syntax
  rust
  Comments
• Permit blocking of view-source: with URLBlocklist
  browsers
  Comments
• What does `&mut &[T]` mean?
  rust
  Comments
• View types for Rust
  rust
  Comments
• America Online Exploits Bug In Own Software (1999)
  historical security
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• The inside story of the outside investigation of SoftRAM 95
  historical reversing windows
  Comments
• Haskell IHP Framework, from a Technical and Business Perspective
  haskell web
  Comments
• Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows
  design programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Monstrosity Email Has Become
  email
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• The HTTP QUERY Method
  web
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• How Nix and NixOS Get So Close to Perfect
  transcript video devops
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• Alloy 6
  formalmethods release
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• How To Make A CPU - A Simple Picture Based Explanation
  hardware
  Comments
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
  book osdev
  Comments
• Samila : A Generative Art Generator
  show art math programming python release
  Comments
• How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals (2016)
  video python
  Comments
• Advice for aspiring bloggers
  practices
  Comments
• Chromium Developer Tools features that shouldn’t be secrets
  web
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• Cython, Rust, and more: choosing a language for Python extensions
  c c++ python rust
  Comments
• Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies (2017)
  design osdev
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• "This project will only take 2 hours"
  practices
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• The Emacs Lisp book is finished
  emacs lisp
  Comments
• iOS app proof of concept written in pure Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Source code for the 1986 Commodore 64 MMO Habitat released
  games historical
  Comments
• The First Rule of Programming: It's Always Your Fault (2008)
  debugging
  Comments
• My own dark mode
  css javascript
  Comments
• A Reality Where CSS & JavaScript Don’t Exist…?
  css javascript web
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• Announcing Hanami v2.0.0.alpha3
  ruby
  Comments
• Pyjion - A Python JIT Compiler
  python
  Comments
• Why Co–Star uses Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• The Surreal Horror of PAM
  transcript video satire unix
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• ts2ocaml: generate OCaml bindings from .d.ts files
  ml web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 9, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Lesser Known PostgreSQL Features
  databases
  Comments
• System76 is building a new Linux desktop in Rust
  linux rust
  Comments
• PoC Terraform Provider in Rust
  devops rust
  Comments
• Hugo theme from scratch: the absolute minimum
  go
  Comments
• That Time 0 == 163298695000000000
  go
  Comments
• ImTui: Immediate Mode Text-based User Interface
  graphics
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• ZFS Woes, or how ZFS Saved Me From Data Corruption
  freebsd linux
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• Alpine: Considering LibreSSL as default OpenSSL provider again
  cryptography linux
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• PHP 8.1 in 8 code blocks
  php
  Comments
• Data denormalization is broken
  compsci
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• Plugins in Rust: Reducing the Pain with Dependencies
  performance rust
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 8, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• an inside look into the illicit ad industry
  web
  Comments
• Moscow state university network built by students
  culture historical networking
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• Normalizing a database schema
  databases
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• An Introduction to Concurrent Logic Programming
  historical plt programming
  Comments
• Hacker Superstitions
  culture
  Comments
• qb.js: An implementation of QBASIC in Javascript
  javascript plt
  Comments
• Generate All the Things
  math testing
  Comments
• Which Python projects have completed their transition to a type system successfully?
  ask plt python
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• Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
  databases
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• Of Course "changeme" Is Valid Base64 (2020)
  programming
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• Racket v8.3
  lisp release
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• How much is a mechanized proof worth, certification-wise?
  pdf slides formalmethods
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 7, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing the new erlang.org
  erlang release
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• How you can track your personal finances using Python
  finance python
  Comments
• Never update anything
  practices rant security
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• WirePlumber: the new PipeWire session manager
  linux
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• It's Time to Get Hyped About Const Generics in Rust
  plt programming rust
  Comments
• Backups and Corruption
  practices
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• Emacs & Emojis: A love Story
  emacs
  Comments
• What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
  mobile security
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• LVGL - Light and Versatile Embedded Graphics Library
  graphics
  Comments
• From MacOS to Arch Linux
  linux mac
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• 1001 Representations of Syntax with Binding
  compilers plt
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• Weaponizing an NFC reader for basic timing attacks
  reversing
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 6, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Threema: Three Strikes, You’re Out
  cryptography mobile privacy security
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• npm install is curl | bash
  security
  Comments
• Fast indoor 2D localization using ceiling lights
  ai
  Comments
• What Memory Model Should the Rust Language Use?
  c++ compilers linux rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• The Tree Structure of File Systems
  osdev rust
  Comments
• Go net/http.ServeMux and Trailing Slashes
  go
  Comments
• Canonical Log Lines 2.0
  programming
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• Efficient Recursive Levenshtein (Edit) Distance Algorithm
  clojure programming
  Comments
• The Soviet 1801VM2 LSI-11 Processor
  hardware historical
  Comments
• LuaJIT Garbage Collector Design Doc
  plt
  Comments
• The yearly backup restore test
  practices
  Comments