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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The cowardice of Brave
  browsers cryptocurrencies
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• Amazon's Rekognition shows its true colors
  privacy
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• Why computers suck and how learning from OpenBSD can make them marginally less horrible
  openbsd
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• vim 8.2 released
  release vim
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• Experiments in Constraint-based Graphic Design
  design python visualization
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• Modern garbage collection: Part 2
  java programming
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• What are your favorite good coding exercies?
  ask programming
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• Other examples of
  ask programming
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• Sleep for 1000 years
  programming
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• Subverting Elm packaging for fun and profit
  elm
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• Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
  cryptocurrencies
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• Meshing in a Minecraft Game
  graphics
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Amazon Premium
  programming
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• Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's dynamic loader (CVE-2019-19726)
  openbsd security
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• How we use IRC at Last.fm (2009)
  historical practices
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• uni: Query the Unicode database from the commandline, with good support for emojis
  show unix
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• The Growing Problem of Malicious Relays on the Tor Network
  privacy security
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• “Link In Bio” is a slow knife
  web
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• Introducing sqlc - Compile SQL queries to type-safe Go
  databases go
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• Why is open source social media unappealing to most?
  ask culture
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• Better UX when reading from stdin
  unix
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• Using zero knowledge proofs to prove set membership without exposing the set or the member
  crypto
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• How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time in 2019
  rust
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• disque, a message queue, is being ported to Redis
  databases
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 12, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• osxfuse is no longer open source
  law mac
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• ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop
  hardware
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• The IntercalScript Programming Language
  art
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• Creating the Ultimate T420
  hardware
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• Things end users care about but programmers don't
  design practices
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• Formatting is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust
  rust
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• Frontend Lobsters, what are your pet peeves about the languages / frameworks you use?
  ask programming
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• Depending Less on Structure
  compsci programming
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• A thread about Internet Archive's "Silent Killer"
  web
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• a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun
  c c++ distributed hardware networking
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• Twitter backing initiative for open and decentralized standard for social media
  web
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• CI/CD pipelines: Monad, Arrow or Dart?
  devops ml plt
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Old books worth reading
  ask book
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• Don't Use Email to SMS Gateways. Please
  email mobile
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• New books worth reading in 2019
  ask book
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• Rust is fun
  rust
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• Declarative UI Patterns in Rust
  video graphics rust
  Comments
• Democratizing AI – Finland offers free AI education to every EU citizen
  ai education
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• How to write an IRC bot (2018)
  networking
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• Soundness bugs in Rust libraries: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
  rust
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• A walk through the Magit interface
  emacs vcs
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• SVG + CSP: An Unappetizing Alphabet Soup
  browsers practices security
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• Chunking Optimizations: Let the Knife Do the Work
  c compilers performance
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• Type Families in Typescript
  plt programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
  databases
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• WireGuard VPN on track to land in 5.6
  linux networking security
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• Wasmcloud Progress: Hello, World
  wasm
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• Send SMS using python (Without Twilio)
  programming python
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• return true to win
  games security
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• Developers shouldn't distribute their own software
  linux
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• USB in a NutShell
  hardware
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• Tests for timezones
  testing
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• O(n^2), again, now in WMI
  performance windows
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• L-systems
  games graphics
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• Working with letsencrypt’s certbot for a Lisp webserver
  lisp
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• Agner's Software Optimization resources
  api assembly c c++ freebsd linux mac netbsd performance windows
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 9, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Privacy Analysis of Tiktok’s App and Website
  privacy
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• Smalltalk with the GraalVM
  compilers java programming
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• TLA+ for startups (part 1)
  formalmethods
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• How Amazon builds and operates distributed systems
  distributed practices
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• Require is an Anti-Pattern
  scala
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• How to do hermetic builds
  practices
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• The Go runtime scheduler's clever way of dealing with system calls
  go
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• Introduction to Gate
  wasm
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• CompCertM: CompCert with C-Assembly Linking and Lightweight Modular Verification
  assembly c formalmethods
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• A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
  pdf math
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• The Night Before Code Freeze
  art devops
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• NetBSD now runs Doom in Linux compat mode (1995)
  games linux netbsd
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 8, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• W3C Recommends WebAssembly to push the limits for speed, efficiency and responsiveness
  api release web
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• Implementing pid1 with Rust and async/await
  rust
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• Haskell vs OCaml
  haskell ml
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• JSON Support in Oil Shell
  programming unix
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• The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5
  compsci
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• make website - a preview
  unix web
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• Scant Evidence of Power Laws Found in Real-World Networks (2018)
  science
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• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• AnyDSL - A Partial Evaluation Framework for Programming High-Performance Libraries
  compilers performance plt
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• File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Backends: Lessons from 10 Years of Ceph Evolution
  historical osdev
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• Elixir Module and Struct Interoperability for Erlang
  elixir erlang
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• NanoNeuron - 7 simple JavaScript functions that will give you a feeling of how machines can learn
  ai javascript programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 7, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby, Where do We Go Now?
  programming ruby
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• There is no “Linux” Platform (Part 1)
  linux practices
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• Zsh prompt with asynchronous Git status
  unix vcs
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• Creating a Rootkit to Learn C
  c linux security
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• Choose Your Docker Base Image Wisely
  devops ruby web
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• `MOST-POSITIVE-BIGNUM`: The Biggest Bignum in TI Lisp Machines (2008)
  historical lisp plt
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• Git tips for trunk-based development
  practices vcs
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• Monads aren't as hard as you think
  haskell python
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• Strongly Typed Events
  plt web
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• SwiftLaTeX
  browsers wasm
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• sysget: A single front end for every unix package manager
  unix
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• PostgreSQL at low level: stay curious
  databases
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 6, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Using the same blogging software for 20 years
  c lua programming
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• How [sl] Switched To Plan 9
  osdev
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• PJW's Face
  culture historical
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• Questions About .org
  practices
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• Inside SoftRAM 95 (1996)
  historical practices windows
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• Interoperability Issue of Google Mail and G Suite
  email networking
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• An unexpected benefit of thinking functional in Perl
  perl
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• Survey of Cowboy Webserver Performance
  elixir erlang performance
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• Tokio 0.2 - Rust Crash Course lesson 9
  programming rust
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• What interesting bugs have you fixed recently?
  ask programming
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• dart2native: Compile Dart to self-contained, native executables
  programming
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• HackerOne breach lets outside hacker read customers’ private bug reports
  security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 5, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 9front usage
  ask unix
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• The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed
  java
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• Authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD
  openbsd security
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• Constant propagation is now on by default in nightly
  compilers rust
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• How can you be so certain?
  pdf c++
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• Big Pile of Vim-like
  vim
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• The Plain Text Project
  practices
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• Orbital Elements Calculator
  show graphics science
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• A week with the Surface Pro X
  hardware windows
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• VS Code is not what it seems
  privacy programming
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• Ruby 2.7 adds shorthand syntax for arguments forwarding
  ruby
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• Solutions to the tiny window manager challenge
  programming
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