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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Is Ruby 3 Actually Three Times Faster?
  performance ruby
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• Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?
  web
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• CI for performance: Reliable benchmarking in noisy environments
  performance
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• Creating a Personal IndieAuth Server
  web
  Comments
• Rails 6.1: Horizontal Sharding, Multi-DB Improvements, Strict Loading, Destroy Associations in Background, Error Objects, and more
  release ruby
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• ZFS: You should use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ
  freebsd
  Comments
• Emacs Survey 2020 Results
  emacs
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• Announcing PowerShell Crescendo Preview.1
  unix windows
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• The Stolen FireEye Red Team Tools Are Mostly Open Source
  security
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• 3 Steps to Designing Better Data Structures
  elixir
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• Punching Holes
  historical
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• In defense of blub studies
  culture
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 9, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gitter now speaks Matrix
  distributed
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• Exhaustiveness Checking with Mypy
  python
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• Monads and GATs in nightly Rust
  plt rust
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• Why does CreateWindowEx take the extended style parameter as its first parameter instead of its last?
  historical programming windows
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• CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream
  linux
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• Why nullable types?
  plt
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• Debugging the world's worst video card
  video hardware
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• Favorite Emacs Packages
  emacs
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• There's Always More History
  historical unix vim
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• Qt 6.0 Released
  c++ release
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• Say Farewell to Forgotten Cleanups
  programming
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• RPC over RabbitMQ (with Elixir)
  elixir erlang
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 8, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• thought leaders and chicken sexers
  person
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• Docker's Second Death
  devops
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• retvals, terrible teaching, and admitting we have a problem
  c practices
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• A Special Kind of Hell - intmax_t in C and C++
  c c++
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• Connecting an ASR33 Teletype to an ESP32
  hardware historical
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• Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test? (2008)
  programming
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• Microsoft Teams RCE
  security
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• German court forces mail provider Tutanota to insert a backdoor
  email privacy
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Writing Apache Spark UDFs in Go
  go
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• Underlay - The world’s distributed knowledge graph
  databases distributed
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• macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS
  freebsd mac
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 7, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Your Smart TV is probably ignoring your PiHole
  security
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• We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says
  ai
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• How does Brown University know where you are?
  education privacy
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• Between two Lisps
  lisp
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• EmacsConf 2020 videos are out
  emacs event
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• Papers I love: gg
  c++ distributed
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• git wip: What the heck was I just doing?
  vcs
  Comments
• Understanding Peer-to-Peer Git Forges with Radicle
  crypto distributed networking rust vcs
  Comments
• The Subtle Hazards of Real-World Cryptography
  crypto security
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• Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy
  javascript programming release
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• Choose Boring Technology
  practices
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• A decade of IRC usage, visualized
  show person visualization
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 6, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• std::visit is everything wrong with modern C++ (2017)
  c++
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• PHP8, from a security point of view
  php security
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• The future of 32-bit Linux
  linux
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• TeX: A tale of two worlds (2017)
  design
  Comments
• The Bastard Operator From Hell Complete WWW Archive
  historical
  Comments
• Exotic Programming Ideas
  programming
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• Announcing LAMBDA: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions
  programming release
  Comments
• Bit Hacks (2018)
  pdf performance
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• Using the builder pattern to define test scenarios
  rust
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• Leaking Browser URL/Protocol Handlers
  browsers
  Comments
• Entropy and Diversity on the arXiv
  book math science
  Comments
• Input Events in Qt 6
  c++
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 5, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• CLI Guidelines
  unix
  Comments
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity
  privacy
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• bagatto: An extensible, transparent static site generator
  show lisp web
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• No dog food today - the Linux Foundation annual report
  culture linux
  Comments
• Introduction to Postgrest
  api databases
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• Git stash doesn’t have to be scary
  vcs
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Fig - Visual Apps & Shortcuts for your Terminal
  mac
  Comments
• Circles Sines and Signals: A Compact Primer on Digital Signal Processing
  math
  Comments
• Pirates of Apple Silicon
  video compilers mac zig
  Comments
• Neovim v0.4.4
  release vim
  Comments
• Starting services only when the network is ready on Debian/systemd
  linux
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 4, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Archivebox.io - The open source self-hosted web archive
  practices
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• Sockets in your Shell
  devops linux networking
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• Open Source Keyboardio Atreus Keyboard – Six Week Review
  hardware
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• Arcan versus Xorg: Feature parity and Beyond
  osdev
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• HTTP/2 Push is dead
  api browsers
  Comments
• Observable & creative coding
  graphics
  Comments
• Stack operations with a guitar loop pedal
  art
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• Who is Debugging the Debuggers? Exposing Debug Information Bugs in Optimized Binaries
  debugging
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• Advent of Open Source
  programming
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• Precursor’s Custom PCBs
  hardware
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• Why Linkerd doesn't use Envoy
  c++ devops rust
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• FreeBSD - How to Submit Bug Report
  freebsd
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 3, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why scientists are turning to Rust
  rust
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• A self-hosted RSS setup
  show privacy
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• Win by Segfault and other notes on Exploiting Chess Engines
  security
  Comments
• Advent of Code 2020 promotion thread
  programming
  Comments
• AWS announces Babelfish: open source Postgres with SQL Server compatibility
  databases
  Comments
• Vector 0.11 Release: K8s, ARC, and metrics collection
  devops release rust
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• Feature Casualties of Large Databases
  databases scaling
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• Using Github Issues as a Hugo frontend with Github Actions and Netlify
  web
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• How to Make Your Code Reviewer Fall in Love with You
  practices
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• Common Lisp Programming Challenge for December 2020
  lisp
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• WebMention Support
  web
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• Ubuntu Studio – A free and open operating system for creative people
  art linux
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 2, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet
  python reversing
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• The ZFS on Linux project has been renamed OpenZFS
  release
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• Optimizing things in the USSR (2016)
  finance historical math
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• The Road to the JIT
  compilers erlang
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• Gamedev from scratch 0: Groundwork
  games lua programming
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• Discord Webhooks via NixOS and Systemd Timers
  devops
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• Busybox-based Linux distro from scratch
  linux
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• Advent of Haskell 2020
  haskell
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• Wikipedia's self-hosted CDN (Part 2)
  distributed scaling
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• GitOps Decisions
  devops scaling vcs
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• New features aren't Solved Problems
  practices security
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• Edgewalker, a DIY VPN server
  openbsd security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 1, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I am an 80 column purist
  practices programming
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• Radicle: A Peer-to-Peer Stack for Code Collaboration (in beta)
  crypto vcs
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• ARM and Lock-Free Programming
  programming
  Comments
• When I lost a few hundred leads
  practices
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• A simple, plain CSS for simple, plain HTML
  show css
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• Error handling is hard
  debugging haskell rust
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• How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?
  assembly reversing
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
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• Checklist - Secure Rust Guidelines
  rust
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• Lobste.rs Advent of Code 2020 Private Leaderboard
  programming
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• Your Percentiles are incorrect P99 of the times
  math
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• Writing Rust the Elixir way
  elixir erlang rust
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