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

• I am an 80 column purist
  practices programming
  Comments
• Radicle: A Peer-to-Peer Stack for Code Collaboration (in beta)
  crypto vcs
  Comments
• ARM and Lock-Free Programming
  programming
  Comments
• When I lost a few hundred leads
  practices
  Comments
• A simple, plain CSS for simple, plain HTML
  show css
  Comments
• Error handling is hard
  debugging haskell rust
  Comments
• How many registers does an x86-64 CPU have?
  assembly reversing
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Checklist - Secure Rust Guidelines
  rust
  Comments
• Lobste.rs Advent of Code 2020 Private Leaderboard
  programming
  Comments
• Your Percentiles are incorrect P99 of the times
  math
  Comments
• Writing Rust the Elixir way
  elixir erlang rust
  Comments

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

• Deploying a Lobsters Clone: What I Learned
  show web
  Comments
• Pijul - The Mathematically Sound Version Control System Written in Rust
  vcs
  Comments
• Undeleting a file overwritten with mv
  programming
  Comments
• A better Kubernetes, from the ground up
  distributed
  Comments
• Reasons why SELECT * is bad for SQL performance
  databases
  Comments
• mhx/dwarfs: A fast high compression read-only file system
  programming
  Comments
• Run Python Applications Efficiently With malloc_trim
  programming python
  Comments
• Why doesn't Rust's BTreeMap have a with_capacity() method?
  rust
  Comments
• The Secrets of Monkey Island's Source Code
  games historical
  Comments
• GPG And Me
  email privacy security
  Comments
• Everything you need to know before try Emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Text Only Websites
  browsers web
  Comments

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

• Stupid light software
  programming
  Comments
• On the Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro
  hardware mac
  Comments
• Lightning Introduction to Nix for Developers
  programming
  Comments
• No Config for Old Men
  practices rant
  Comments
• ReStuff: StuffIt as a Service
  historical mac
  Comments
• jointwt/twtxt is a Self-Hosted, Twitter™-like Decentralised microBlogging platform
  go programming
  Comments
• The Time I Wrote a White Noise Generator To Improve Loading Times
  javascript web
  Comments
• A Byzantine failure in the real world
  distributed
  Comments
• Stitcherd - Dynamic content for static sites
  show go web
  Comments
• Interval Tree Clocks
  distributed
  Comments
• Genode OS Framework 20.11
  osdev release
  Comments
• The Cult of Posits
  math programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My list of magic numbers for your turkey day enjoyment
  compsci debugging programming
  Comments
• SQLite as a document database
  databases
  Comments
• The NoJS Club
  show web
  Comments
• Digital Tools I Wish Existed
  practices
  Comments
• Lib-Ruby-Parser: A Ruby Parser Written in Rust
  ruby rust
  Comments
• 1.5 is the midpoint between 0 and infinity in Ruby
  ruby
  Comments
• The Unix Command Language - Ken Thompson (1976)
  historical unix
  Comments
• Why you should use Zig for your Elixir Nifs
  video elixir zig
  Comments
• Exactly how much physical memory is installed?
  linux
  Comments
• Mastering UNIX pipes, Part 1
  c freebsd linux netbsd openbsd
  Comments
• Parse, don’t type-check
  plt
  Comments
• How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protect domains that don’t send email
  email security
  Comments
• Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad
  api performance
  Comments
• I Spent 11 Years Working on This Line Rider Track
  art graphics
  Comments
• Git9 is self hosted now: Hosting git on Plan 9
  programming vcs
  Comments
• reasoning about colors
  art
  Comments
• Why you should use `nproc` and not grep /proc/cpuinfo
  linux
  Comments
• Cordless project closed down
  law
  Comments
• Filesystem and Database are not cutting the problem space right
  databases programming
  Comments
• PHP 8 Released
  php release
  Comments
• Rebuilding the Racket Compiler with Chez Scheme
  lisp programming
  Comments
• Blender 2.91
  graphics release
  Comments
• quiver: a modern commutative diagram editor
  show math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• An API is a user interface
  api programming
  Comments
• What should a new OS have?
  ask osdev
  Comments
• A WIP CLI for Lobsters
  show programming
  Comments
• Rust library for homomorphic hashing
  show crypto release rust
  Comments
• FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet
  freebsd
  Comments
• Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 3 (Effect Systems)
  plt
  Comments
• Why I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
  web
  Comments
• PAM Bypass: when null(is not)ok
  linux security
  Comments
• Nix(OS) Thoughts
  linux
  Comments
• Someone attacked our company
  security
  Comments
• Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method (2014)
  education
  Comments
• Distributed Systems with Node.js: Building Enterprise-Ready Backend Services (2020, O'Reilly)
  distributed nodejs
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You might not need machine learning
  ai
  Comments
• Smithy --- A tiny git forge written in Go
  show go vcs
  Comments
• An opinionated list of best practices for textual websites
  web
  Comments
• Ruby on Rails: Still the Best Web App Framework for Most Teams
  ruby
  Comments
• What went wrong with the libdispatch. A tale of caution for the future of concurrency
  api
  Comments
• WireGuard for Windows 0.3: ARM support, enterprise features, & more
  crypto networking windows
  Comments
• Vulkan implementation for Rasperry Pi 4 is now conformant
  graphics
  Comments
• Cover Your Tracks - See how trackers view your browser
  privacy web
  Comments
• Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
  culture programming rust
  Comments
• Advice on advanced degrees in computer science?
  ask education
  Comments
• Play: Statically typed Forth, compiled to WASM
  elm plt wasm
  Comments
• 1x Forth by Charles Moore 4/13/99
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Getting started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• Bitbucket is developer hell
  rant vcs
  Comments
• The Raspberry Pi makes a great USB webcam for $100
  hardware linux
  Comments
• A practical guide to URI encoding and URI decoding
  web
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• These are called opportunities
  performance
  Comments
• r/perl - Where is Perl used these days?
  perl
  Comments
• A magic eye that makes magic eyes
  art perl
  Comments
• If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
  databases
  Comments
• Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls
  linux security
  Comments
• DOOM on the Nintendo Game and Watch
  video hardware reversing
  Comments
• GNU Guix 1.2.0 released
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Booting from a vinyl record
  historical
  Comments
• PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Apple ARM M1 MacBook Pro 2020
  databases
  Comments
• How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
  linux
  Comments
• 250kb Club
  web
  Comments
• Glade Not Recommended
  linux
  Comments
• Haskell Proposal: Simplify Deriving
  haskell plt
  Comments
• Yellowstone Back From the Dead
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Even faster bash startup
  performance unix
  Comments
• OpenWrt and self-signed certificates
  security
  Comments
• GitHub Issues As Comments
  web
  Comments
• rust-script - Run Rust files and expressions as scripts without any setup or compilation step
  rust
  Comments
• Pikelet is a small, functional, dependently typed programming language
  plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers
  databases linux
  Comments
• What small change(s) has made a large impact on your life?
  ask practices
  Comments
• A Taste of OCaml's Predictable Performance
  assembly ml
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Intro to DDlog
  compilers plt rust
  Comments
• Optimizing Your Web App 100x is Like Adding 99 Servers
  performance scaling
  Comments
• How to Setup Prometheus, Grafana and Loki on NixOS
  devops
  Comments
• A few ways to make money in FOSS
  culture
  Comments
• Shaking Down the Raspberry Pi 400
  linux programming
  Comments
• Exploiting dynamic rendering engines to take control of web apps
  security web
  Comments
• systemd targets and infrastucture layers
  systemd
  Comments
• Branch Prediction Is Not a Solved Problem
  hardware
  Comments