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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, AWK, Forth, and Rust
  c go performance python rust
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• The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t
  historical linux mobile
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• User IDs probably shouldn't be passed around as ints (2018)
  distributed security
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• How to Read ARM64 Assembly Language
  assembly
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Text Adventures: how Twine remade gaming
  games
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• Bresenham's Circle Drawing Algorithm
  graphics math
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• C++ killed the get & set accessors
  c++
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• CSS property usage in the wild updated by Google every 24 hours
  web
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• Why Programmers Should(n't) Learn Theory
  formalmethods plt
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• GitUI anniversary release v0.13
  release rust vcs
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• What's your experience been writing language tools ?
  ask plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why are Climate models written in programming languages from 1950?
  fortran science
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• Resurrecting Fortran
  fortran
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• Mage is My Favorite Make
  go programming
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• Reinventing tabs
  design
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• Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil
  practices
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• The Hindley-Milner Type System
  video plt
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• I wrote one of the fastest DataFrame libraries
  performance rust
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• How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need?
  math
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• Learning without Burnout
  programming
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• Reverse Engineering of Intel Microcode Update Structure
  reversing
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• Czkawka - Simple/Fast/Easy App to Find/Remove Unnecessary Files
  freebsd linux mac
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• UserLand Frontier Open Source Release
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What’s new in SQLite 3.35
  databases release
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• Speed of Rust vs C
  c rust
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• Why I don’t ‘do’ Arduino
  c++ hardware
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• Do you know of resources like rubykoans or ziglings for other languages?
  ask programming
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• 7-Zip, the open source file archiver, is now available for Linux
  c linux release
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• An Object-Oriented Language for the '20s
  plt
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• RegEx Crossword
  programming
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• On OCaml and the JS platform
  ml
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• C’s removal of gets could have been done better
  c
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• List of split keyboards
  hardware
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• Make your intercom smarter with an MQTT backpack
  hardware
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• Performance differences between Postgres and MySQL
  databases distributed performance
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Goroutines Are Not Significantly Lighter Than Threads
  go linux performance
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• Understanding Extended-Nonce Constructions
  crypto security
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• qutebrowser v2.1.0
  browsers release
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• Why is the quality of code autocomplete so low?
  ask practices
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• Nix Flakes, Part 1: An introduction and tutorial
  linux
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• Algebra and Data Types
  plt rust
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• A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web
  browsers security
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• The Mu Micro Virtual Machine Project
  compsci plt virtualization
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• Format /etc/fstab files automatically
  go linux unix
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• An Interview with Cadey Ratio
  person
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• Wasm3 engine v0.4.9 - tracing of wasm/WASI execution flow, new API, Python 3 integration
  release wasm
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go
  go
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• How I earn a living selling my open source software
  person
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• Rust's async isn't f#@king colored
  rant rust
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• No Gates, No Keepers
  culture rant
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• Mac upgrade opened sshd to brute force password attacks
  security
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• Bitcoin and other PoW coins are an ESG nightmare
  cryptocurrencies
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• Building a Zoom Mute Button
  hardware
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• Go Developer Survey 2020 Results
  go
  Comments
• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
  programming
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• Routing the technical interview
  distributed
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• Multicore OCaml: February 2021
  ml
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• The Story of Ping (1999)
  networking
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• fire in OVH cloud datacenter - complete dc lost
  event
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• Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work
  practices programming rant rust
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• Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
  privacy web
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• git: malicious repositories can execute remote code while cloning
  security vcs
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• Intel NUC as a backend for development
  hardware
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• Staying out of TTL hell
  programming scaling web
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• Actors
  swift
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• Compressing data with Parquet
  databases performance
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• Why Your Company's Documentation Sucks
  practices rant
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• Zig, Parser Combinators - and Why They're Awesome
  zig
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• User-defined type guards in TypeScript
  javascript
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• Write libraries instead of services, where possible
  api practices
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• half of curl’s vulnerabilities are C mistakes
  c security
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• Debian running on Rust coreutils
  linux rust
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• Signal Appears To Have Abandoned Their AGPL-licensed Server Sourcecode
  law privacy rant security
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• How I self-published a professional paperback and eBook using LaTeX and Pandoc
  book
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• Food: A Bittersweet Affair, Can I Program Out of My Food Problems?
  distributed
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• GitHub bug related to handling of authenticated sessions
  security
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• Pruning Unused Haskell Dependencies
  haskell
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• GlusterFS 8 on FreeBSD 13
  distributed freebsd
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• PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 emulator - Q4 2020 Progress Report
  compsci hardware virtualization
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• It's raymarching march
  graphics
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• You want enabling CSS selectors, not disabling ones
  css
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• Haiku activity report - February 2021
  c++ compsci osdev
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 9, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What side projects are you building currently ?
  ask programming
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• I made a file copy thing
  linux
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• lyndenn
  art
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• Coding Constructs I Now Avoid (and why)
  practices programming
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• Lunatic - An Erlang inspired runtime for all programming languages
  distributed wasm
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• Vim is Turing-Complete
  compsci vim
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• Circuit Breaker Pattern in Elixir
  elixir programming
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Best practices can slow your application down
  plt
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• Graphics libraries in C++: FLTK or how to make your life easier
  c++ lisp programming
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• MIPS Technologies joins RISC-V, moves to open-source ISA standard
  hardware
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• The Kilobyte’s Gambit 1k chess game
  c
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 8, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun
  rust zig
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• How does a PS/2 keyboard interface work?
  video hardware
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• Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life
  python
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• "Design Patterns" Aren't
  perl plt
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• How to get better at recursion
  programming
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• unzip is applied zip
  lisp
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• Parameter Passing in C and C++
  c c++
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• Memory-mapped IO registers in zig
  zig
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• If/else/switch
  plt
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• My Custom Emacs Setup
  emacs
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• Getting PIV-based SSH working on a YubiKey
  linux practices
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• Qubes-lite with KVM and Wayland
  linux security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 7, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Look & Feel Changes Coming to elementary OS 6
  design linux
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• Towards a prevalent alternative prelude?
  haskell
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• JEP 398: Deprecate the Applet API for Removal
  java
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• The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate
  education historical linux osdev unix
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• RectCut for dead simple UI layouts
  practices
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• SerenityOS: Kernel Hacking Adventures
  security
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• Resilience in Ruby: Shell Commands
  ruby
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• Fizzbuzz without if clauses
  haskell
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• Fourty Years On
  historical
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• U.S. Organizations Hacked Via Microsoft Exchange
  security
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• Psyche-C: A compiler frontend for the C programming language designed for static analysis tools
  c compilers
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• Data-Oriented programming in Java
  java
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