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title: "Daily headlines · Daily Diff"
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# Daily headlines

[Daily edition](</index.md>) · [Hot now](</hot.md>)

[Top 10](</headlines/first.md?date=2024-01-03&limit=10&q=>) · [Top 20](</headlines/first.md?date=2024-01-03&limit=20&q=>) · [Above median](</headlines/first.md?date=2024-01-03&limit=20&q=&mode=median>)

Daily ranking · strictly above median

## 2024-01-03

### [The One Billion Row Challenge](<https://www.morling.dev/blog/one-billion-row-challenge/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: morling.dev

Published: 2024-01-02T21:30:27+00:00

Points: 44 · Comments: [40](<https://lobste.rs/s/u2qcnf>)

Tags: [databases](</search.md?q=databases>)

### [SIEVE is simpler than LRU](<https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: cachemon.github.io

Published: 2024-01-03T07:09:15+00:00

Points: 47 · Comments: [19](<https://lobste.rs/s/kmfs5a>)

Tags: [compsci](</search.md?q=compsci>)

### [Cassette (a small, Lisp-like programming language)](<https://cassette-lang.com/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: cassette-lang.com

Published: 2024-01-03T03:03:35+00:00

Points: 35 · Comments: [19](<https://lobste.rs/s/09coe5>)

Tags: [lisp](</search.md?q=lisp>)

### [malbolge-lisp: A lightweight (350MB) Lisp interpreter in Malbolge Unshackled, often dubbed the hardest turing complete programming language](<https://github.com/kspalaiologos/malbolge-lisp>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: github.com

Published: 2024-01-03T05:09:36+00:00

Points: 24 · Comments: [4](<https://lobste.rs/s/bkyeqd>)

Tags: [lisp](</search.md?q=lisp>)

### [What is the index of an empty string in an empty string?](<https://successfulsoftware.net/2023/12/13/what-is-the-index-of-an-empty-string-in-an-empty-string/>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: successfulsoftware.net

Published: 2024-01-03T14:29:59+00:00

Points: 20 · Comments: [38](<https://lobste.rs/s/mhx6di>)

Tags: [plt](</search.md?q=plt>)

### [Fastest Way to Read Excel in Python](<https://hakibenita.com/fast-excel-python>)

Source: Lobsters · Domain: hakibenita.com

Published: 2024-01-03T13:00:31+00:00

Points: 23 · Comments: [15](<https://lobste.rs/s/5tugrd>)

Tags: [performance](</search.md?q=performance>)