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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 30, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Turning Google smart speakers into wiretaps for $100k
  security
  Comments
• Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert`
  databases
  Comments
• The PS2 memory card menu is no longer patented
  law programming
  Comments
• Love Rust? Then OCaml's New Eio Library is for You
  ml rust
  Comments
• Jean-Michel Jarre’s Classic ‘Oxygene 4’ Recreated With 19KB Of Javascript
  javascript programming
  Comments
• sudo make install
  unix
  Comments
• What We Do in the /etc/shadow – Cryptography with Passwords
  cryptography security
  Comments
• Over-Engineering an Emoji Webcam Filter with a Neural Network
  ai javascript
  Comments
• Decentralized Chaos In Germany
  event
  Comments
• Hash Collision Probabilities
  math
  Comments
• Big-O matters, but it's often memory that's killing your performance
  performance swift
  Comments
• Golang is evil on shitty networks
  go networking
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• the zen of forth
  plt programming
  Comments
• pa - a simple password manager based on age
  unix
  Comments
• 26 languages in 25 days: Strategy, tactics, logistics
  programming
  Comments
• My age+YubiKeys Password Management Solution
  cryptography unix
  Comments
• BLAKE3: One Function, Fast Everywhere
  pdf cryptography merkle-trees
  Comments
• SQL + M4 = Composable SQL
  databases
  Comments
• ReDoS "vulnerabilities" and misaligned incentives
  rant security
  Comments
• The ultimate single-page app
  web
  Comments
• Actually using ed (2012)
  unix
  Comments
• Advent of Code 2022 on a MikroMikko 4TT m326
  c++ performance
  Comments
• lchat 1.0 - suckless ii chat frontend
  release unix
  Comments
• Are we web yet? Yes, and it's freaking fast
  rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• More use of Rust is inevitable in open source software
  rust zig
  Comments
• Lichen
  web
  Comments
• What’s in a PR statement: LastPass breach explained
  security
  Comments
• From resource forks to quarantine, ResEdit to Gatekeeper
  historical mac
  Comments
• Experimental feature gate proposal `interoperable_abi`
  rust
  Comments
• Mainlining Nexus 9: First Boot
  linux
  Comments
• A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell
  linux unix
  Comments
• Lessons Learnt From Solving AoC in One Second
  rust
  Comments
• Unintentionally BREAKing a serial console
  hardware
  Comments
• Code Coverage for GoAWK
  go programming
  Comments
• A New HOPE (2022): CHERI: A Modern Capability Architecture
  video c c++ rust security
  Comments
• What’s the deal with Cisco devices in `file` output, anyway?
  historical
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 27, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop
  linux
  Comments
• Building Hypermedia Systems
  web
  Comments
• I lived through 5 decades of computing milestones
  historical
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Receiving Blog Replies from anywhere on the Web
  web
  Comments
• cparse now supports LALR(1) - simple parser generator for C
  compilers release
  Comments
• Managing infrastructure with Terraform, CDKTF, and NixOS
  devops nix
  Comments
• Infinitude of primes --- a Lean theorem prover demo
  video math
  Comments
• General guidance when working as a cloud engineer
  devops
  Comments
• Critical Program Reading (1975)
  video programming
  Comments
• Benchmarking Ruby 2.6 to 3.2
  performance ruby
  Comments
• How blocklists prevent the internet to be decentralized – and safe
  security web
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby 3.2.0 Released
  release ruby
  Comments
• The X11 Conservancy Project
  historical linux
  Comments
• Imposter Syndrome
  practices
  Comments
• Cracking encrypted Lastpass vaults
  security
  Comments
• Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach (2009)
  c performance
  Comments
• Long story short: I wrote a Ruby extension in Zig
  ruby zig
  Comments
• The Matrix Holiday Update 2022
  networking
  Comments
• Nix and NixOS, my pain points
  nix
  Comments
• Benchmarking Ruby 3.2 with YJIT
  performance ruby web
  Comments
• Escaping the Algorithms
  ai philosophy
  Comments
• The return of lazy imports for Python
  performance python
  Comments
• Using Coalton to Implement a Quantum Compiler
  lisp
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rotary Keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• WPA3: no go on Raspberry Pi (plus some Mac gotchas)
  devops hardware
  Comments
• News for Ruby 3.2.0
  programming release ruby
  Comments
• Setting up my new laptop: nix style
  nix
  Comments
• Meson 1.0.0
  programming
  Comments
• Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language
  testing
  Comments
• The Dawn and Dusk of Sun Microsystems
  video historical
  Comments
• Fully-homomorphic encryption, zero-knowledge proofs, and multiparty computation
  cryptography math
  Comments
• Let's build a browser engine
  programming
  Comments
• Win16 Retro Development
  historical programming windows
  Comments
• Open Source Grindset Explained
  philosophy programming rust
  Comments
• Google Privacy Policy updated to recognize Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)
  privacy
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Happy Holidays, Crustaceans
  meta
  Comments
• Haiku R1/beta4 has been released
  osdev release
  Comments
• A bottle of light
  show art hardware
  Comments
• Mastering Emacs Book Club
  emacs event
  Comments
• What more recent developments in PLT could be useful in languages targeting much older/limited hardw
  ask plt
  Comments
• Sigils followup: semantics and language design
  programming
  Comments
• PEP 636 – Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial
  python
  Comments
• Notice of Recent Security Incident
  security
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering Tiktok's VM Obfuscation
  reversing
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Better UI to find the next TV show to watch using Rotten Tomatoes
  python web
  Comments
• 9th International Workshop on Plan 9
  osdev
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Challenging algorithms and data structures every programmer should try
  programming
  Comments
• Comprehensive Rust Guide from Google
  rust
  Comments
• Extending the AES-GCM Nonce Without Nightmare Fuel
  cryptography
  Comments
• Bugs that literally cost money
  programming
  Comments
• Nim version 2.0.0 release candidate
  programming release
  Comments
• Moving emails accounts to a new host, imapcopy with actual encryption
  email
  Comments
• devenv.sh v0.5
  devops
  Comments
• Avoid exception throwing in performance-sensitive code
  c++
  Comments
• Generating audio with literate Futhark
  audio plt programming
  Comments
• Unit test this
  c linux practices testing
  Comments
• A minimal GIF decoder
  lisp
  Comments
• MacroKata: Learn macros in Rust
  rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Signed distance functions in 46 lines of Python
  graphics python
  Comments
• A free Twitter-like app for iOS that uses S3-compatible services as the backend
  ios
  Comments
• Fellow crustaceans, 2023 will be the year of ${TECHNOLOGY}
  ask compsci
  Comments
• The Generation Ship Model of Software Development
  programming
  Comments
• Nix on the Steam Deck
  hardware nix
  Comments
• Okta's source code stolen after GitHub repositories hacked
  security
  Comments
• Saving power on an ESP8266 web server using delays
  c
  Comments
• How to share terminal demos as razor-sharp animated SVG
  graphics web
  Comments
• Dolphin Progress Report: September, October, and November 2022
  programming
  Comments
• Kindelia/Kind: A next-gen functional language
  plt programming
  Comments
• There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge
  hardware
  Comments
• The Queues down in Queueville
  devops
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sigils are an underappreciated programming technology
  apl programming
  Comments
• Boring Python: code quality
  practices python
  Comments
• Dr. Futamura's Projection Machine: From Interpreters to Compilers through a Marvelous Device
  slides compilers
  Comments
• Faster Go code by being mindful of memory
  go performance
  Comments
• Control-flow integrity
  compilers security
  Comments
• How to draw ugly lines really fast
  graphics
  Comments
• Upgrading my old Chumby 8 Linux kernel part 1: U-Boot
  hardware linux
  Comments
• NetBSD 10.0 BETA available
  netbsd unix
  Comments
• The topologist's world map
  graphics math
  Comments
• An Ode to Unit Tests: In Defense of the Testing Pyramid
  testing
  Comments
• Feature Preview: Gitea Actions
  devops
  Comments
• What not to forget when implementing a pattern-matching in Ruby for custom objects
  ruby
  Comments