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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protobuffers Are Wrong
  programming rant
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• Sort By Controversial
  ai satire
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• The Lost Worlds of Telnet
  historical
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• Exploiting Null Byte Buffer Overflow for a $40,000 bounty
  security
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• Merry Christmas! What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Learn Rust the Dangerous Way
  c rust
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• NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes
  crypto historical
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• WTF Python
  programming python
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• Oil Example: Recognizing Python Integer Literals
  programming unix
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• Humourous looks at programming languages
  historical programming satire
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• Clojure Start Time in 2019
  clojure
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• When class-based React beats Hooks
  javascript web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The future of the web, isn't the web
  a11y web
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• It's time to start writing
  practices
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• How I set up an IRC daemon on Kubernetes
  show programming
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• The joy of Perl (1998)
  perl
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• Go + Services = One Goliath Project
  go python
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• A list of compiler jobs
  compilers job
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• Anyone Can Build This Open Source, DRM-Free Kindle Alternative
  hardware
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• The Kernel Change That May Be Slowing Down Your App
  devops linux performance
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• Tiny Tiny RSS + Readability == The best way to read RSS feed
  browsers web
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• Which machines do computer architects admire?
  hardware historical
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• Ember.js: Octane is Here
  javascript
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• On Linux's Random Number Generation
  linux
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• Sarah2: A strong pen-and-paper cipher
  crypto
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• The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland
  rant web
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• New to SDR?
  networking
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• I'm building a tiny CRM for software engineers
  databases
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• In Memoriam: Chuck Peddle
  hardware historical person
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• My impressions using the System76 Oryx Pro
  hardware
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• Trade Money For Time
  practices
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• What problem does BERT hope to solve for search?
  ai
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• ScreensaverStopper, 14kb C++ utility to stop the screensaver
  c++ windows
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• Plasma Mobile as Daily Driver on PinePhone
  hardware mobile
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• Monica, open source personal CRM
  person web
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Xor Filters: Faster and Smaller Than Bloom Filters
  compsci performance
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• Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
  privacy
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• Fundraising for qutebrowser (a vim-like browser) with shirts and stickers
  show browsers vim
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• Google Reader Killed RSS
  historical practices
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• Use GitHub actions at your own risk
  devops security
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• putting stuff in a proliant dl325
  hardware
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• The Little Book of Python Anti-Patterns
  practices python
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• Optimizing for Size
  c performance
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• Nim Community Survey 2019
  programming
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• Block bad hosts with PF
  networking openbsd security
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• Programming Language for the ancient Chinese
  programming
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• Signal Technology Preview for secure value recovery
  crypto privacy security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• This Page is Designed to Last
  javascript performance web
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• How tracking pixels work
  privacy web
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• Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision
  practices release
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• Escape from System D, episode VI: freedom in sight
  linux systemd
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• Building a new Win 3.1 app in 2019 Part 1: Slack client
  historical programming windows
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• A Failed SaaS Postmortem
  practices
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• Awesome Concurrency with Elixir Tasks
  slides elixir
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• telnet postcard.sfconservancy.org 2333
  graphics
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• What You Probably Didn’t Know About Sudo
  unix
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• citop: Monitor CI pipelines from the command line
  go unix
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• Alpine 3.11.0 released
  linux
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• Why Functional Programming
  clojure lisp
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 19, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The #1 bug predictor is not technical, it's organizational complexity
  devops practices
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• PinePhone review
  hardware mobile
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• Google to choke off ‘less secure applications’
  security web
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• Undocumented Catalina file access change
  mac security unix
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• Zone of Ceremony
  haskell plt
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• Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell: a Retrospective
  haskell
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• Librem 5 - My Thoughts
  privacy
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• A DSL For Seccomp Rules
  linux security
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• OpenSSH Key Shielding
  crypto security
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• Tech lead expectations for leading projects on my team
  practices
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• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JavaScript Adaptation
  book javascript
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• Blogs worth following
  ask science
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Your Makefiles are wrong
  practices
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• Don't use booleans
  programming
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• The sad state of personal data and infrastructure
  practices programming rant
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• No real numbers
  programming
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• What are you working on this week?
  ask programming
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• DNS hosting
  ask networking
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• Every IPv6 address now has a name
  devops networking
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• How randomly skipping tests made them better
  testing
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• Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon
  ai games
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• Navy Reverting DDGs Back to Physical Throttles, After Fleet Rejects Touchscreen Controls
  hardware
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• Negative Latency
  ai
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• From zero to main(): Bare Metal Rust
  c hardware
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• IPv6 Adoption Breaks 30%
  networking
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• #include
  c security
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• .ORG Update
  web
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• Stop worrying about blocking: the new async-std runtime, inspired by Go
  release rust
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• What if personal computers were a mistake, actually?
  hardware philosophy
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• The Essential Guide To Electronics in Shenzhen
  pdf hardware
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• Calm Technology
  practices
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• I'm building a profiler for my OS! (and making videos of the process)
  video c++ osdev performance
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• Nushell - The Cross Platform Shell
  rust
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• What makes Python a great language?
  python
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• KillingSpark/rustysd - systemd reimplementation in rust
  rust systemd
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• v0.5 of Gleam, a statically typed language for the Erlang VM, is out
  erlang plt release
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• C, what the fuck??
  c
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• The odd story of how Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound
  art historical windows
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• USB Polling Rate Adventure
  hardware programming
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• Coping with flexbox
  css
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• Why Dependent Haskell is the Future of Software Development
  haskell
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• Olin Improvements
  wasm
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• Delta chat
  crypto email privacy security
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• Wireguard OpenBSD Router
  openbsd privacy
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• A rapid admin generator for Elixir & Phoenix
  elixir web
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• Convert file I/O into pipe I/O with /dev/fd
  unix
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• Clojure by Example
  clojure
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• Challenging projects every programmer should try
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• reMarkable: the perfect tablet for academics
  math reversing
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• Poetry 1.0: Python dependency management and packaging made easy
  python release
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• Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers From Their Services
  browsers web
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• How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer
  programming unix
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• A/B Street: Traffic simulation game written in Rust
  games rust
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• Pony 0.33.1
  release
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• A function to sleep a 1000 years: explained
  c
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• The ARM SoC landscape from OS dev perspective
  osdev
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• Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it
  web
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• Designing APIs for cache friendliness
  api
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• Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Git
  security vcs
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• From iPhone to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
  ios security windows
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