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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• bitbottle: a modern archive file format
  show cryptography rust
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• don’t do clever things in configure scripts
  practices
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• EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
  law
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• htmlq - Like jq, but for HTML
  unix
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• nuta/kerla: A new operating system kernel with Linux binary compatibility written in Rust
  linux osdev rust
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• OpenBSD on the HiFive Unmatched
  hardware openbsd
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• An APL compiler in Standard ML compiling to Typed Array Intermediate Language
  apl ml plt
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• New language features since Java 8 to 17
  java
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• Waiting for apt locks without the hacky bash scripts
  linux
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• CSS Is Finally Getting If/Else Statements
  css
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• New HTTP standards for caching on the modern web
  web
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• austral: Systems language with linear types
  plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Habits I've Developed for Fast + Efficient Programming
  practices programming
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• Moving Faster
  practices programming
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• Getting to know Fuchsia, Google's open-source operating system
  osdev
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• A 16 Year History of the Git Init Command
  vcs
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• LLMNR, Multicast DNS and names on your LAN
  networking
  Comments
• Measuring std::unordered_map Badness
  c++ performance
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• Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project
  law osdev programming unix
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• An alternative approach to rate limiting (2017)
  api scaling
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• Narratives and Lessons from The Early History of F#
  video compilers ml
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• Streamlining the process of upgrading Rails in a large monolith
  ruby web
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• Strings, arrays, recursion, and parsing JSON: Exploring PL/pgSQL
  databases programming
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• ProbLog: Probabilistic logic programs
  math programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• RSS is Wonderful
  culture
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• A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust
  programming
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• Fast and Elegant Clojure
  clojure performance
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• A Prototype Original iPod
  hardware historical
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• Pest: Parser in Rust using PEGs
  programming rust
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• Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language (2018)
  testing
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• 2008: Violet
  culture games plt
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• Enum reflection in C++ with template metaprogramming (2019)
  c++
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• Space Related Applications of Forth (1998)
  programming
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• Using Graph Embeddings for Music Visualization + Discovery with node2vec
  ai visualization
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• Stringy Templates
  c++
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• Static Analysis: An Introduction
  plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• There is no 'printf'
  c
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• FOSDEM 2022 will be online
  event
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• Speed up your ClojureScript Webapp
  clojure web
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• What are the best texts to learn about issue triaging approaches?
  ask practices
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• Local distributed rate limiting
  distributed
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• Fun and Scary Code from Qt and KDE
  c++
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• How to get useful answers to your questions
  practices
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• Atari Document Archive
  hardware historical osdev programming
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• Coding for non-programmers: Why we need better GUI automation tools
  rant
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• Reasons to consider NOT switching to Linux
  linux rant
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• Web scraping by watching requests
  javascript web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Wat talk (2012)
  video programming
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021
  release rust
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• Are you anonymous while using private browsing mode?
  browsers security
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• What is the unit of a text column number?
  c++
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• Ruby gets a YJIT compiler
  ruby
  Comments
• PlayStation 3 Architecture
  hardware historical
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• October 2021 Home Infrastructure Status
  freebsd networking
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• The Day My Script Killed 10,000 Phones in South America
  python testing
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• What Books Should Everyone Read?
  book compsci
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• Umami - a simple, self-hosted, website analytics alternative to Google Analytics
  web
  Comments
• A new release of OWASP WebGoat
  security
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• GIMP - Development version: GIMP 2.99.8 Released
  design graphics release
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh
  freebsd
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• Optimizations enabled by -ffast-math
  c
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• Google, Mozilla close to finalizing Sanitizer API for Chrome and Firefox browsers
  security web
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• Version Control for Structure Editing
  plt vcs
  Comments
• Boring machine learning is where it's at
  ai
  Comments
• Gron in Awk
  programming
  Comments
• Lawsuit against California TV manufacturer Vizio Inc. for GPL violations
  law linux
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• Why Wikipedia matters, and how to make sense of it (programmatically)
  programming python ruby
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• Introducing eFlambé
  elixir erlang performance
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• Builder pattern in Rust
  rust
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• Release Early, Release Often?
  ask practices
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• OK Lenovo, we need to talk
  hardware historical osdev rant
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nim v1.6.0 released
  programming release
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• How BSD Authentication Works
  openbsd
  Comments
• IHP v0.15.0 has been released
  haskell release web
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• Proper use of the author checkbox
  meta
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• Trustworthy computing in 2021
  security
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• What's in a hostname?
  networking programming
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• Why you shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
  python
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• The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
  perl rant
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• Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment
  freebsd
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• Cracking Random Number Generators using Machine Learning – Part 2: Mersenne Twister
  ai cryptography
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• The Challenges of Fuzzing 5G Protocols
  security
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• Early days of Unix and design of sh
  video historical unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What to learn
  practices programming
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• Arthur-PC - a HD64180 based computer
  hardware historical
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• What every software engineer should know about search (2017)
  programming
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• My story of Javascript dependency woes
  javascript practices rant
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• L0phtCrack is now open source
  security
  Comments
• Printf("%s %s", dependency, injection)
  compsci
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• Features of Excellent Code Review Tools
  practices
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• Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3
  python testing
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• ArcaOS: Using OS/2 In 2021 - Install and Review
  video historical
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• Where would you start with a new desktop environment for Linux?
  ask graphics linux
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• What =delete means
  c++
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A viable solution for Python concurrency
  python
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• OpenTTD 12.0 released
  c++ games release
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• Our Algorithm Problem Solving Club Is Beginning This Week
  math programming
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• nLab
  math philosophy
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• Genode - Sculpt Operating System 21.10
  osdev security
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• Stiff asks, great programmers answer (2006)
  historical person
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• Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers Running on the Right Time Zone
  linux person
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• Implementation of in-memory hash tables for Tcl
  c
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• Three tools to profile django app
  python
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• include-what-you-use - A tool for use with clang to analyze #includes in C and C++ source files
  c c++ performance
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• Optimization without Inlining
  c++ performance
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• Scene at MIT: Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo code (2016)
  historical
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What we can learn from "_why" the long lost open source developer
  programming ruby
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• NixOS in the Cloud, step-by-step
  devops linux
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• Pip vs Conda: an in-depth comparison of Python’s two packaging systems
  python
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• Don’t change the Go standard library because of generics yet
  go
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• Feedback Loops are Bullshit
  philosophy practices
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• Implementing Hash Tables in C
  c programming
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• Putting Judge to the test
  lisp testing
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• Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust
  performance
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• Feature freeze for C23
  c
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• minias - A mini x86-64 assembler for fun and learning
  assembly programming release
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• The lost art of software design
  pdf slides practices
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• Reverse engineering a thermal printer's WiFi setup commands
  hardware
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