The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 14, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Zig Reproduced Without Binaries

  nix security zig

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• Go Turns 15

  go

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• No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains

  ai mobile

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• Who Is Eric Wayne?: an Unsolved IoT Mystery

  person reversing security

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• Five Unusual Raku Features

  programming

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• What does f(x) mean in C++?

  c++ programming

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• Visualizing 13 million BlueSky users

  visualization

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• Playing Bad Apple over RSS

  javascript php

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• Coding for a Finite World (2023)

  practices

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• Swift *almost* does a really cool thing I want

  programming swift

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• Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac

  ai

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• Complex for Whom?

  practices

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 13, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What I Wish Someone Told Me About Postgres

  databases

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• Git and jujutsu: in miniature

  vcs

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• Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1.0

  databases distributed testing

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• Jujutsu: A Haven for Mercurial Users at Mozilla

  vcs

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• Bus Number - The github plugin my coworkers asked me not to write

  culture show

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• VMware Fusion and Workstation now free for all users

  virtualization

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• PostgreSQL "timestamp with time zone"s set in the future may become silently incorrect if DST abolished

  databases

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• Rust needs an official specification

  rust

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• Announcing .NET 9

  dotnet

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• When to Use Cosmos DB

  databases

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• 3rd edition of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering book now freely available for download

  book release security

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• fmt.Sprintf vs String Concat

  go

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 12, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What RSS reader do you use?

  ask web

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• I sent an ethernet packet

  c hardware networking

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• Binary vector embeddings are so cool

  ai performance

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• Way too many ways to wait on a child process with a timeout

  programming

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• curl -v google.com

  satire video

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• The Design of a Self-Compiling C Transpiler Targeting POSIX Shell

  c pdf unix

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• Algorithms we develop software by

  practices

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• OpenGL is not right-handed

  graphics

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• Use std::span instead of C-style arrays

  c++

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• The peculiar world of Gentoo package testing

  linux testing

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• The CVM Algorithm

  databases

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• Safety in TigerBeetle

  databases distributed testing

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 11, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs

  ai

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• A BSD person tries Alpine Linux

  freebsd linux

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• Progressively enhancing (legacy) CGI apps with htmx

  web

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• Unused keys in vim

  vim

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• An alternative idea for a typed language living alongside/inside JavaScript

  javascript plt

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• Booleans Are a Trap

  practices

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• What's new in F# 9

  dotnet

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• RISC-V Vector Extension overview

  hardware performance

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• Algol 68 – A Retrospective

  plt

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• A mental model for Linux file, hard and soft links

  linux

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• The BPF instruction set architecture is now RFC 9669

  linux

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• Algol-68 seemed like a good idea – until it wasn’t

  historical plt

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 10, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Known Attacks On Elliptic Curve Cryptography

  cryptography security

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• Mergiraf: a syntax-aware merge driver for Git

  vcs

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• Tone of Life

  art

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• Regular Restarts Are Good, Actually

  programming

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• Building Bridges to C++

  c++ programming rust

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• What are you doing this weekend?

  ask programming

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• Announcing Planet Nix

  event nix

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• The case of a program that crashed on its first instruction

  assembly debugging windows

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• PSA: SQLite does not do checksums

  databases

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• Discussion: Adding memory regions to Go

  go

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• Bringing faster exceptions to Rust

  performance rust

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• determination: Rust typecheckers for System F and System F-omega

  plt

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