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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 18, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reducing Tailscale’s binary size on macOS
  go
  Comments
• Writing Javascript without a build system
  javascript
  Comments
• Worst password requirements you've seen
  ask security
  Comments
• Tidying up your $HOME with Nix
  linux mac nix
  Comments
• Ractor: Rust actor framework
  erlang rust
  Comments
• Nextcloud + OpenBSD = <3
  openbsd web
  Comments
• mox - modern full-featured open source secure mail server for low-maintenance self-hosted email
  email go
  Comments
• Taming AWS Costs
  devops practices
  Comments
• Buildless JavaScript
  javascript web
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?
  ai
  Comments
• Named Booleans prevent C++ bugs and save you time
  c++ practices
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 17, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Haiku Package Management
  osdev
  Comments
• A promising mess
  linux
  Comments
• Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?
  rust
  Comments
• The Most Efficient Ways to Put Squares in Squares
  math
  Comments
• Lua Programming Gems
  book lua
  Comments
• ChatGPT passes the Turing Test — now what?
  ai
  Comments
• Why Aren't Programming Language Specifications Comprehensive?
  compilers programming
  Comments
• Intel iAPX 432 Architecture
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Homebrew 4.0.0
  linux mac release
  Comments
• We Found An Neuron in GPT-2
  ai reversing
  Comments
• Programming AIs worry me
  ai
  Comments
• The Little Learner
  book ai
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 16, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• KDE Plasma 5.27 release, including better multi monitor support and a tiling system
  linux release
  Comments
• When Rust hurts
  rust
  Comments
• React is popular for rational reasons despite being bad for performance
  javascript
  Comments
• Shrinkflation, SanDisk style
  hardware rant
  Comments
• Structured logging in Go with slog
  go
  Comments
• The Real C++ Killers (Not You, Rust)
  c++
  Comments
• Himalaya, the CLI email client: v0.7.0 released
  email release rust
  Comments
• The Scientific Case for P != NP (2014)
  math
  Comments
• Recommended external USB fingerprint scanner?
  ask linux
  Comments
• What happens if you put HTTP server inside Postgres?
  show databases web
  Comments
• Would Rust secure cURL? (2021)
  c rust security
  Comments
• Speeding Up Tests in Applications Using Sequel, Roda, and rack-unreloader
  ruby
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 15, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• core-js: So, what's next?
  browsers javascript web
  Comments
• Learning Jai via Advent of Code
  programming
  Comments
• pkgsrc.se - is back online
  netbsd
  Comments
• Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
  performance practices
  Comments
• Repurposing e-waste: turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Ruby's private keyword is weird
  ruby scala
  Comments
• Modern Mono
  programming
  Comments
• AutoHotkey v2
  release windows
  Comments
• cURL audit: How a joke led to significant findings
  security
  Comments
• Bing AI Can't Be Trusted
  ai
  Comments
• Does Python still have a need for class without @dataclass?
  python
  Comments
• C++23 “Pandemic Edition” is complete (Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting, Issaquah, WA, USA)
  c++
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 14, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Whatever happened to Elm, anyway?
  elm
  Comments
• The Time I Accidentally Ended Up Combating Fraud for a Year
  practices security
  Comments
• The bottom emoji breaks rust-analyzer
  debugging emacs rust
  Comments
• Writing The Perfect RGB Regex And Failing
  css javascript programming
  Comments
• size_t Is Not int
  c c++ security
  Comments
• My Fear of Commitment to the 1st CPU Core
  performance
  Comments
• jotdown: A Djot parser library
  rust
  Comments
• Announcing DuckDB 0.7.0
  release
  Comments
• Matrix 2.0: How we're making Matrix go voom
  distributed
  Comments
• Behind the magic of magic_enum
  c++
  Comments
• How to get a heart attack while using JEB decompiler
  reversing security
  Comments
• I implemented a code notebook for datalog queries
  video programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 13, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Let's write a setjmp
  assembly c
  Comments
• The unsafe language doom principle
  security
  Comments
• Including screenshots to git commit messages to show visual changes of features / bug fixes
  vcs
  Comments
• Is Deno Ready for Primetime?
  javascript
  Comments
• A love letter to Deno
  javascript web
  Comments
• Solving Jigsaw Puzzle with bare Rust
  programming
  Comments
• Introducing AdaCore, a Rust Foundation Silver Member
  rust
  Comments
• Dolphin Progress Report: December 2022 and January 2023
  programming
  Comments
• Sunsetting Subversion support
  vcs
  Comments
• Physics-based flight simulation with C++
  c++
  Comments
• Protohackers Server Programming Challenge
  networking programming
  Comments
• Technology Has Lost Its Pragmatism
  philosophy practices
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 12, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A review of the C standard library in practice
  c
  Comments
• Is there a Correlation between the Use of Swearwords and Code Quality in Open Source Code?
  pdf programming
  Comments
• gofumpt: A stricter gofmt
  go
  Comments
• Gentoo Linux 2022 retrospective
  linux
  Comments
• Creating and hosting your own DEB packages and apt repo
  linux
  Comments
• Use TOML for '.env' files?
  python
  Comments
• Implementing Co, a Small Language With Coroutines #3: Adding Coroutines
  haskell plt
  Comments
• Lovebyte 2023 - 10-12th February 2023 : The biggest sizecoding / codegolfing demoparty event is back
  art assembly culture event graphics
  Comments
• The Heisenbug lurking in your Python async code
  python
  Comments
• Things coming to Derw, Feburary 2023
  plt
  Comments
• How we added support for the C++23 assume feature in GCC
  c++ compilers
  Comments
• A performance analysis of five stable sort algorithms (two are novel/new)
  compsci performance
  Comments

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The 11 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 11, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Gix: Literate Programming with Emacs org-mode & GNU/Guix
  nix
  Comments
• orlp/glidesort: A Rust implementation of Glidesort, my stable adaptive quicksort/mergesort hybrid sorting algorithm
  compsci rust
  Comments
• Exploring various ways of flattening route trees in Clojure
  clojure
  Comments
• Reverse engineering an e-ink display
  reversing security
  Comments
• PDP2011 – a re-creation of the well known series of PDP-11 computer systems in VHDL
  hardware
  Comments
• Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem
  javascript performance
  Comments
• NetBSD 10 Beta installs and testing from i386 to ARM
  netbsd
  Comments
• How Amazon RDS Replication Works and Why the FAA's Database Problem Won't Happen in AWS
  databases
  Comments
• Using RxDB as a Database in Node.js
  databases javascript nodejs
  Comments
• QObjects, Ownership, propagate_const and C++ Evolution
  c++
  Comments
• MyTimer v0.4: A Geeky Timer in Python
  show python release
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 10, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Participating in programming language's evolution during interesting times
  philosophy plt ruby
  Comments
• How a Zig IDE Could Work
  zig
  Comments
• Why I'm not the biggest fan of Single Page Applications
  web
  Comments
• We need programming mentors
  practices
  Comments
• Pull request merge queue (public beta)
  vcs
  Comments
• ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
  ai
  Comments
• Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries
  audio debugging hardware
  Comments
• How to use Matrix
  distributed
  Comments
• The continuous amnesia issue
  practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• How GitHub's upgrade broke Bazel builds
  devops
  Comments
• R65: Code and emulator of a 1978 homebrew 6502 computer
  hardware historical
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 9, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Names should be cute, not descriptive
  practices
  Comments
• Hardcoded Folder Icons in macOS
  mac
  Comments
• Shells are Two Things
  api plt unix
  Comments
• It’s worth running a FreeBSD or NetBSD desktop
  freebsd netbsd
  Comments
• Video Compression for Mere Mortals
  video scaling
  Comments
• Can sanitizers find the two bugs I wrote in C++?
  c c++
  Comments
• Why does 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004?
  math programming
  Comments
• Rustler - Using Rust crates in Elixir
  elixir rust
  Comments
• Telemetry in the Go toolchain
  go programming
  Comments
• Languages are not Ecosystems
  plt
  Comments
• Transparent Telemetry for Open-Source Projects (Transparent Telemetry, Part 1)
  go privacy
  Comments
• Sub-single-instruction Peano to machine integer conversion
  rust
  Comments