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
  

  video satire
  

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

  pdf c 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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 09, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rails 8.0: No PaaS Required
  

  ruby
  

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• Linus Torvalds lands a 2.6% performance improvement with minor Linux kernel patch
  

  linux performance person
  

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• Following up "Mother of all htmx demos"
  

  javascript web
  

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• How to self-host all of Bluesky (except the AppView (for now))
  

  distributed web
  

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• Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks
  

  rust
  

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• An Opinionated Guide to Keyboard Thumb Keys
  

  hardware
  

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• QNX becomes free for non-commercial use
  

  osdev
  

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• How We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Terrifying Concurrency Bug At Netflix
  

  debugging devops practices
  

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• A New Era of macOS Sandbox Escapes: Overlooked Attack Surface, 10+ New Vulns
  

  security
  

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• I'm not mutable, I'm partially instantiated
  

  programming
  

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• Desktop icons are surprisingly hard
  

  linux programming
  

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• Creating a Brainrot Language Server in Golang
  

  go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 08, 2024 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• XMPP: The Forgotten Gem of Instant Messaging
  

  networking
  

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• The Big Array Size Survey for C
  

  c
  

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• How to Learn: Userland Disk I/O
  

  databases
  

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• gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Visualizing binary files with ImHex's DSL, the "pattern language"
  

  programming
  

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• peer to peer but mostly the main peer (2022)
  

  historical networking
  

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• A Science of Concurrent Programs
  

  book formalmethods
  

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• FreeBSD 2024 Q3 Status Report
  

  freebsd
  

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• Implementing Signal’s Double Ratchet algorithm (2020)
  

  cryptography
  

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• CORAL: a Rust-like Borrow Checker for C
  

  c plt programming rust
  

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• Yellow Scream (2024)
  

  art
  

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• Emulator of Odra 1003/1013, Polish mainframes of the 1960s
  

  retrocomputing
  

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