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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 2, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Advent of Code 2021
  programming
  Comments
• NixOS 21.11 released
  linux release
  Comments
• Release NVIM v0.6.0
  release vim
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• DESQview/X : The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
  historical
  Comments
• doas insults
  openbsd
  Comments
• This shouldn't have happened: A vulnerability postmortem
  security
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• Tools I use: PyCharm
  programming
  Comments
• A look at Popcorn Computer's new Pocket P.C
  hardware linux mobile
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• New subreddit for folks building databases
  culture databases
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• Python's None problem, and how Mypy helps you deal with it
  plt python
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• C Compiler which targets Excel
  c compilers
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• Virtual Machine Showdown: Stack Versus Registers (2005)
  pdf performance
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 1, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hubris and Humility
  rust
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• chat.sr.ht: a persistent IRC session for sourcehut users
  culture
  Comments
• Will Nix Overtake Docker?
  devops practices
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• Uses This: Andreas Kling
  practices
  Comments
• asmrepl: A REPL for x86 assembly language
  assembly ruby
  Comments
• Receiving Starlink satellite beacons on a budget
  hardware
  Comments
• Simple Things That Are Actually Hard: User Authentication
  security
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• Recent Progress on the Oil shell
  programming unix
  Comments
• Uninitialized Stack Variables
  c
  Comments
• Computer Networking Introduction - Ethernet and IP (Heavily Illustrated)
  networking
  Comments
• Prettier switch-cases
  c++
  Comments
• On Yak Shaving and , a new HTML element for Markdown
  web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• asciinema 3.0, 4x smaller, 50x faster
  performance rust
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• Alloy 6: it's about Time
  formalmethods release
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• Orgdown - a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents
  a11y api emacs
  Comments
• JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE
  programming release
  Comments
• The History of Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became The Norm Again
  design
  Comments
• Why I have settled on XChaCha20+Blake3 as the AEAD suite of choice for my projects
  cryptography security
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• LLVM internals, part 4: attributes and attribute groups
  compilers rust
  Comments
• The Case of the Recursive Resolvers
  networking security
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• Practical parsing with Flex and Bison
  programming unix
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• Faster Top Level Domain Name Extraction with Go
  go performance rust
  Comments
• Help needed customizing Belenios voting system written in OCaml
  job ml
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Some obscure C features
  c
  Comments
• MacBook Air M1: the best laptop?
  mac
  Comments
• You Can't Download this Image
  browsers
  Comments
• Late-bound argument defaults for Python
  python
  Comments
• I have no idea what I’m doing
  practices
  Comments
• Designing a Programming Language for Advent of Code
  plt
  Comments
• csum_partial optimization
  linux networking performance
  Comments
• The Token Disconnect
  finance
  Comments
• Data Exfiltration via CSS + SVG Font
  security web
  Comments
• Emacs bends again
  emacs ios swift testing
  Comments
• The Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's clever exponential circuit, reverse-engineered
  hardware historical reversing
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• A small and portable Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K
  lisp plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective
  compsci education
  Comments
• Run a website off a Google Sheets Database, with Hugo
  programming
  Comments
• Optimising memset and memcpy
  assembly performance
  Comments
• no u pnp
  networking security
  Comments
• NixOS: Headless Home Assistant VM
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• We've Been Doing It The Wrong Way
  philosophy practices
  Comments
• Things I learned from building a production database
  databases practices
  Comments
• SQLite Release 3.37.0
  databases release
  Comments
• Magma: A dependently-typed language
  plt
  Comments
• How to jailbreak an Amazon Echo Dot?
  ask hardware reversing
  Comments
• An 'Attempt' to avoid C++ exceptions
  c++
  Comments
• What Does It Take To Port 16-Bit Windows 1.0 Applications Into Native Windows 11 Programs?
  video historical programming windows
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Technology I’m thankful for
  programming
  Comments
• NattyNarwhal/vmwmouse: VMware mouse driver for Windows 3.1
  show assembly virtualization windows
  Comments
• Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence
  education programming rant
  Comments
• What is Hammock Driven Development?
  programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• WWWBrowser - a Haskell web browser (1994)
  haskell historical
  Comments
• getElementById vs querySelector
  javascript performance web
  Comments
• Go Does Not Need a Java Style GC
  go java
  Comments
• Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vulkan driver
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• aclements/latexrun: A 21st century LaTeX wrapper
  math python
  Comments
• The Toit language is now open source
  plt
  Comments
• The unexpected return of JavaScript for Automation
  javascript mac
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The fish shell is amazing
  programming
  Comments
• The Secret History of ATAPI
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Everything you ever wanted to know about UDP sockets but were afraid to ask, part 1
  linux networking
  Comments
• The ZLD Linker
  video compilers performance zig
  Comments
• The Fastest FizzBuzz Implementation
  assembly linux performance
  Comments
• Faster software through register based calling
  assembly go performance
  Comments
• The Best Starting Word in WORDLE
  games javascript nodejs
  Comments
• What is AMD ROCm?
  api graphics
  Comments
• A command-line utility for generating random passwords, passphrases, and raw keys by the NSA
  cryptography security
  Comments
• The Varieties of the Haskelling Experience
  emacs haskell vim
  Comments
• Transformers from Scratch
  ai
  Comments
• Modern PHP Cheat Sheet
  php
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
  graphics
  Comments
• Peritext A CRDT for Rich-Text Collaboration
  distributed
  Comments
• HATEOAS — An Alternative Explanation
  api
  Comments
• Using AWK with CSV Files
  programming
  Comments
• A Tale of Three Codebases
  rust
  Comments
• My Custom CSS Reset
  css
  Comments
• PackagingCon 2021 Talk Recordings
  video event
  Comments
• How I got nerd sniped into benchmarking legacy x86 instructions (2019)
  assembly performance
  Comments
• Implementing zip archiving in Golang: unzipping
  go
  Comments
• Reliably allocating huge pages in Linux
  linux
  Comments
• Boost your productivity with ZSH and Alacritty
  unix
  Comments
• Remote, encrypted ZFS storage server with NixOS
  devops linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Flatpak Is Not the Future
  linux
  Comments
• Full key extraction of NVIDIA TSEC
  security
  Comments
• Split Keyboards Gallery
  hardware
  Comments
• Optimized Zip Format: Reading Zip Files Really Quickly
  performance
  Comments
• More fun with Go generics: A new.Of() helper function
  go
  Comments
• systemd by example - Part 1: Minimization
  linux systemd
  Comments
• Golang.org is Gone
  go
  Comments
• 1000x Faster Spelling Correction algorithm
  compsci performance
  Comments
• A Practical Guide to Applying Data-Oriented Design
  video performance zig
  Comments
• sfork: A synchronous, single-threaded interface for starting processes on Linux
  linux
  Comments
• Cross-fading any two DOM elements is currently impossible
  css
  Comments
• Writing a Fuzzer for Nes Games
  games
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• cut -c considered harmful
  linux
  Comments
• A modern, ergonomic Unix shell configuration with Fish
  unix
  Comments
• On CVE-2019-5021
  linux security
  Comments
• Your CSS is an interface
  css
  Comments
• The Operator Pattern in Nomad
  devops go
  Comments
• Investigating the HCF (Halt & Catch Fire) instruction on Motorola 6800
  assembly hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Pattern matching in concatenative programming languages
  pdf plt
  Comments
• Why V7 Unix matters so much
  historical unix
  Comments
• Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released
  python release web
  Comments
• An Ecosystem of libraries and tools for writing and executing extremely fast GPU code fully in Rust
  compsci performance release rust
  Comments
• Getting started with Standard ML
  ml
  Comments