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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 7, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Apollo 11 Guidance Computer vs USB-C Chargers
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Dicts are now ordered, get used to it
  python
  Comments
• Mint: a programming language for writing single page applications
  programming web
  Comments
• Feature Interaction Bugs
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Bye-bye Time Machine
  mac
  Comments
• First Classical Chinese Programming Language
  programming
  Comments
• How I moved from Nginx to Caddy
  linux networking
  Comments
• PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY
  databases programming
  Comments
• macOS kernel extensions are officially deprecated
  mac
  Comments
• uBlock Origin available soon in new Firefox for Android Nightly
  android browsers privacy
  Comments
• Write Better Python by Learning Elm
  elm practices python
  Comments
• Ubuntu Kylin's UKUI Desktop Switches to Qt, Looks Phenomenal
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 6, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• ZZ is a modern formally provable dialect of C
  c formalmethods plt
  Comments
• Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID
  browsers privacy web
  Comments
• What is SAP?
  historical
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• Fractals of Complexity
  devops rant scaling
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• The First Time SICP Blew My Mind
  book plt
  Comments
• Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open
  privacy
  Comments
• Running Go CLI programs in the browser
  go wasm
  Comments
• One very bad Apple
  ios privacy security
  Comments
• Applying mypy to real world projects
  practices python
  Comments
• Demystifying a TypeScript quirk
  javascript plt
  Comments
• Run executables from memory, over the network, on Windows, Linux, OpenVMS
  osdev
  Comments
• Unix as IDE
  practices unix
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 5, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust
  go programming rust
  Comments
• CO2 emissions on the web
  web
  Comments
• A new hash algorithm for Git
  security vcs
  Comments
• Tech salaries are risk premiums
  culture finance
  Comments
• switch to sway
  linux
  Comments
• Who's hiring? Q1Y2020
  ask job
  Comments
• Conway's Game of Life in Baba is You
  video games
  Comments
• Godot Engine was awarded an Epic MegaGrant
  games graphics
  Comments
• TeamViewer stored user passwords encrypted, not hashed, and the key is now public
  security
  Comments
• News about XBPS
  linux release
  Comments
• Reflections on software performance
  performance
  Comments
• Tinfoil Chat
  crypto python security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 4, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (MIT course)
  compsci education practices unix
  Comments
• SerenityOS desktop running on an OpenBSD kernel
  openbsd osdev
  Comments
• How To Add CSS Dark Mode To A Website
  web
  Comments
• shlide—a slide deck presentation tool written in pure bash
  linux unix
  Comments
• HTTP/3 for everyone
  networking person
  Comments
• The EARN IT Act: How to Ban End-to-End Encryption Without Actually Banning It
  crypto law privacy
  Comments
• Google Maps Hacks
  art
  Comments
• Just because it's an RFC ID doesn't mean anything... at all
  practices
  Comments
• Pock: Display macOS Dock in Touch Bar
  mac
  Comments
• Taskell: command-line Kanban board/task management
  haskell
  Comments
• Five important realisations about game balance
  games
  Comments
• Making A Website - Finishing Touches
  web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 3, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Old CSS, new CSS
  css historical web
  Comments
• Write out Unicode in Octal
  programming
  Comments
• Is Catalina a good upgrade yet?
  mac
  Comments
• free: A terrible programming language that targets brainfuck
  programming rust
  Comments
• Things I Believe About Software Engineering
  philosophy programming
  Comments
• How I Work From Anywhere in the World
  practices
  Comments
• Deanonymizing Tor Circuits
  networking privacy
  Comments
• Firing Up the Apple //c for "Not x86 Week"
  historical mac
  Comments
• Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems
  linux systemd
  Comments
• Setting up a Haskell development environment in minutes in Visual Studio Code
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Emulator bug? No, LLVM bug
  c++ debugging
  Comments
• How linking works
  c++
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 2, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Org-mode features You May Not Know
  emacs
  Comments
• Decentralize Messaging
  distributed
  Comments
• Clojure beginner resources
  clojure
  Comments
• Powerlevel10k: A Zsh theme
  unix
  Comments
• CPU caches and data locality: a small demonstration
  performance
  Comments
• Prepper-style music hoarding
  practices
  Comments
• Programs are a prison: Rethinking the fundamental building blocks of computing interfaces
  philosophy programming
  Comments
• Making A Website - Adding A Blog
  web
  Comments
• TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex
  javascript programming
  Comments
• Using a Raspberry Pi as Your Development Server
  hardware linux programming
  Comments
• Symbolically Executing WebAssembly in Manticore
  wasm
  Comments
• Kraken Identifies Critical Flaw in Trezor Hardware Wallets
  cryptocurrencies hardware security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 1, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Decentralised SMTP is for the greater good
  distributed email
  Comments
• Things I believe
  practices programming
  Comments
• A Pythonista's Review of Haskell
  haskell programming python unix
  Comments
• Regolith Desktop 1.3 Released, Makes Using i3 Even Less Scary
  linux
  Comments
• Who says Tcl rules
  programming
  Comments
• Guile 3 & Guix
  linux lisp
  Comments
• rlwrap: a readline wrapper
  show programming
  Comments
• Meet micro:bit
  hardware
  Comments
• libc++’s implementation of std::string
  c++
  Comments
• An Introduction to Number Theory
  math
  Comments
• Migrating from MongoDB to RethinkDB
  databases
  Comments
• What are your plans for this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 31, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jepsen: etcd 3.4.3
  databases distributed testing
  Comments
• Let's Destroy C
  c
  Comments
• Dino 0.1 release - open-source XMPP based application for decentralized messaging
  release
  Comments
• How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
  scaling web
  Comments
• Rust 1.41
  release rust
  Comments
• Monoliths are the future
  programming
  Comments
• The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube
  databases historical practices
  Comments
• How do Lobsters readers centralize logging?
  ask devops
  Comments
• The Rust Compilation Model Calamity
  compilers rust
  Comments
• The Let It Crash Philosophy Outside Erlang
  erlang programming
  Comments
• How effective are free antivirus products like AVG, Avast, etc?
  ask security
  Comments
• python 3.9 compatibility changes
  python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• WireGuard VPN pulled into Linus' tree
  linux networking security
  Comments
• Remembering the LAN
  historical networking
  Comments
• Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life
  compsci
  Comments
• Every Cellphone I've Ever Owned
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Uses This: Bram Moolenaar
  person
  Comments
• Blocking Your Adblocker. How to be an asshole, programmatically
  web
  Comments
• What would a programming language designed from the ground-up for a multi-core world look like?
  ask compilers
  Comments
• Raycasting Demo in React
  show games javascript
  Comments
• LPE and RCE in OpenSMTPD (CVE-2020-7247)
  c openbsd security
  Comments
• Avoiding gaps in IOMMU protection at boot
  hardware security virtualization
  Comments
• Alpine makes Python Docker builds 50× slower, and images 2× larger
  devops python
  Comments
• Here comes Godot 3.2, with quality as priority
  games graphics release
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thoughts on Nix
  linux programming rant
  Comments
• The sad state of screen sharing on desktop Linux
  linux
  Comments
• 128 Bits of Security and 128 Bits of Security: Know the Difference
  crypto security
  Comments
• The right way to email a git repository
  email vcs
  Comments
• Dependent type systems as macros
  lisp plt
  Comments
• Where are the Hacking Simulators?
  games
  Comments
• CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions
  hardware security
  Comments
• Against unnecessary databases
  api databases performance
  Comments
• musl libc toolchains | static cross/native toolchains
  c
  Comments
• Interview with Jonathan Blow
  audio c++ games person rust
  Comments
• The Phantom Password (2011)
  security
  Comments
• Can end-to-end encrypted systems detect child sexual abuse imagery?
  crypto
  Comments