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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• FreeBSD switches the default root shell from csh to sh
  freebsd
  Comments
• Optimizations enabled by -ffast-math
  c
  Comments
• Google, Mozilla close to finalizing Sanitizer API for Chrome and Firefox browsers
  security web
  Comments
• Version Control for Structure Editing
  plt vcs
  Comments
• Boring machine learning is where it's at
  ai
  Comments
• Gron in Awk
  programming
  Comments
• Lawsuit against California TV manufacturer Vizio Inc. for GPL violations
  law linux
  Comments
• Why Wikipedia matters, and how to make sense of it (programmatically)
  programming python ruby
  Comments
• Introducing eFlambé
  elixir erlang performance
  Comments
• Builder pattern in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Release Early, Release Often?
  ask practices
  Comments
• OK Lenovo, we need to talk
  hardware historical osdev rant
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nim v1.6.0 released
  programming release
  Comments
• How BSD Authentication Works
  openbsd
  Comments
• IHP v0.15.0 has been released
  haskell release web
  Comments
• Proper use of the author checkbox
  meta
  Comments
• Trustworthy computing in 2021
  security
  Comments
• What's in a hostname?
  networking programming
  Comments
• Why you shouldn't invoke setup.py directly
  python
  Comments
• The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated
  perl rant
  Comments
• Other FreeBSD Version in ZFS Boot Environment
  freebsd
  Comments
• Cracking Random Number Generators using Machine Learning – Part 2: Mersenne Twister
  ai cryptography
  Comments
• The Challenges of Fuzzing 5G Protocols
  security
  Comments
• Early days of Unix and design of sh
  video historical unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What to learn
  practices programming
  Comments
• Arthur-PC - a HD64180 based computer
  hardware historical
  Comments
• What every software engineer should know about search (2017)
  programming
  Comments
• My story of Javascript dependency woes
  javascript practices rant
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• L0phtCrack is now open source
  security
  Comments
• Printf("%s %s", dependency, injection)
  compsci
  Comments
• Features of Excellent Code Review Tools
  practices
  Comments
• Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3
  python testing
  Comments
• ArcaOS: Using OS/2 In 2021 - Install and Review
  video historical
  Comments
• Where would you start with a new desktop environment for Linux?
  ask graphics linux
  Comments
• What =delete means
  c++
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A viable solution for Python concurrency
  python
  Comments
• OpenTTD 12.0 released
  c++ games release
  Comments
• Our Algorithm Problem Solving Club Is Beginning This Week
  math programming
  Comments
• nLab
  math philosophy
  Comments
• Genode - Sculpt Operating System 21.10
  osdev security
  Comments
• Stiff asks, great programmers answer (2006)
  historical person
  Comments
• Untold Story Of How One Guy In California Keeps The World’s Computers Running on the Right Time Zone
  linux person
  Comments
• Implementation of in-memory hash tables for Tcl
  c
  Comments
• Three tools to profile django app
  python
  Comments
• include-what-you-use - A tool for use with clang to analyze #includes in C and C++ source files
  c c++ performance
  Comments
• Optimization without Inlining
  c++ performance
  Comments
• Scene at MIT: Margaret Hamilton’s Apollo code (2016)
  historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What we can learn from "_why" the long lost open source developer
  programming ruby
  Comments
• NixOS in the Cloud, step-by-step
  devops linux
  Comments
• Pip vs Conda: an in-depth comparison of Python’s two packaging systems
  python
  Comments
• Don’t change the Go standard library because of generics yet
  go
  Comments
• Feedback Loops are Bullshit
  philosophy practices
  Comments
• Implementing Hash Tables in C
  c programming
  Comments
• Putting Judge to the test
  lisp testing
  Comments
• Overhead of Returning Optional Values in Java and Rust
  performance
  Comments
• Feature freeze for C23
  c
  Comments
• minias - A mini x86-64 assembler for fun and learning
  assembly programming release
  Comments
• The lost art of software design
  pdf slides practices
  Comments
• Reverse engineering a thermal printer's WiFi setup commands
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• October Update: Introducing the PinePhone Pro
  hardware linux mobile
  Comments
• Python Multithreading without GIL
  python
  Comments
• How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%
  windows
  Comments
• Speed matters
  practices programming
  Comments
• Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
  design
  Comments
• Phantom Types in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• LANtenna attack reveals Ethernet cable traffic contents
  networking security
  Comments
• Designing an API Client in Rust: New Rspotify Version a Year Later
  api practices rust
  Comments
• Bugs in our Pockets: The Risks of Client-Side Scanning
  pdf privacy security
  Comments
• Paradox of the perfect code editor
  programming
  Comments
• Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity
  practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• OpenBSD 7.0
  openbsd release
  Comments
• Announcing Parcel v2
  javascript release rust
  Comments
• Lightning-fast rebases with git-move
  vcs
  Comments
• Hacking YouTube With MP4
  security
  Comments
• Ubuntu 21.10 has landed
  linux release
  Comments
• You Already Know Formal Methods
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Selling Lisp by the Pound
  lisp
  Comments
• DOOM Rendered via Checkboxes
  javascript web
  Comments
• Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (1996)
  pdf plt
  Comments
• Migrations: migrating attributes, pt. I
  databases
  Comments
• Memory-Model Recommendations for Rusting the Linux Kernel
  linux rust security
  Comments
• Verification for Dummies: SMT and Induction
  plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District
  security
  Comments
• Relational Databases Aren’t Dinosaurs, They’re Sharks
  databases
  Comments
• Tiny ELF Files: Revisited in 2021
  assembly
  Comments
• Psycopg 3.0 released
  databases python
  Comments
• The 100 MHz 6502
  hardware historical
  Comments
• FreeBSD audio from a perspective of a happy user
  freebsd
  Comments
• How APT does its fancy progress bar?
  python
  Comments
• Cwtch: Decentralized, Surveillance Resistant Infrastructure
  privacy security
  Comments
• Interface ergonomics: automation isn't just about time saved
  programming
  Comments
• It's Ada Lovelace Day! Learn the Ada programming language in 2021
  devops osdev programming
  Comments
• compudanzas — uxn tutorial
  assembly
  Comments
• Circular Harmonics
  math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 13, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rust and GCC, two different ways
  compilers rust
  Comments
• YoHa: A Practical Hand Tracking Engine
  show graphics
  Comments
• A Case Against Lookup Tables
  performance programming
  Comments
• Quadlet, an easier way to run system containers [with podman]
  systemd
  Comments
• Building Tiny Raspberry Pi Linux Images With Buildroot
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Interview with Bill Joy (1984)
  historical unix
  Comments
• algoheader: Programmatically generate beautiful header images for blogs or social media accounts
  ruby
  Comments
• The Return of the Unix Shell
  unix
  Comments
• About Halo game's backend
  games scaling
  Comments
• How to win at CORS
  browsers web
  Comments
• The problem with macros
  lisp plt
  Comments
• How (not) to use readdir_r(3) (2012)
  security unix
  Comments

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

• RIP Jörg Schilling
  person
  Comments
• Scribe - An alternative frontend to medium.com
  show release
  Comments
• I keep making things out of checkboxes
  art browsers graphics
  Comments
• EU court rules no EULA can forbid decompilation, if you want to fix a bug
  law
  Comments
• When can glibc be built with Clang?
  c linux
  Comments
• Better operator precedence
  plt
  Comments
• Parsing JSON is a Minefield (2018)
  programming
  Comments
• Fleeting Memories of Youth and the Increasing Impermanence of Culture
  historical
  Comments
• Memcached vs Redis - More Different Than You Would Expect
  databases
  Comments
• Conditional Border Radius In CSS
  css
  Comments
• Apple II Programming
  audio historical
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments