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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Adventures using and repairing an X131e laptop from 2011
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• macOS 11's hidden security improvements
  mac security
  Comments
• Life before Unicode [in Russia]
  historical
  Comments
• Generics enabled by default in Go tip
  go
  Comments
• An Opinionated Guide to xargs
  programming unix
  Comments
• The Beauty of Bézier Curves
  video math visualization
  Comments
• How Unicode helps to ruin your software
  historical programming
  Comments
• VoidLinux in FreeBSD Jail; with init
  freebsd linux
  Comments
• Parser generators vs. handwritten parsers: surveying major language implementations in 2021
  compilers plt
  Comments
• Perhaps WSL2 Should be a Wake-up Call
  linux rant windows
  Comments
• The big-load anti-pattern
  performance
  Comments
• Lisp-1 vs Lisp-2
  lisp
  Comments

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

• Hypothetical Timing Attack on MariaDB Through Lobste.rs Password Reset
  crypto security
  Comments
• Patterns in confusing explanations
  practices
  Comments
• Ruby vs Python, the Definitive FAQ (2016)
  programming satire
  Comments
• 20 Years of Haiku
  osdev
  Comments
• PostgreSQL count(*) made fast
  databases performance
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Plua revisited: Lua for PalmOS (and resurrecting plua2c)
  historical lua
  Comments
• Setting new expectations for open source maintainers
  practices
  Comments
• Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
  javascript web
  Comments
• i-probably-didnt-backdoor-this: Using Reproducible Builds to verify a Rust binary
  programming rust security
  Comments
• Auto-correct Git commands
  vcs
  Comments
• Clojure-like destructuring in brev
  lisp
  Comments

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

• Gentle Guide to Get Started With tmux
  devops
  Comments
• Configuration (and configuration files) is not and cannot be generic
  devops programming
  Comments
• Org habits on iOS? Check! Tasks, you're next
  emacs ios
  Comments
• How an A.I. is Becoming the World's Best Pokemon Player
  video ai games
  Comments
• The IBM 1401 datacenter simulator - experience 1960's mainframe programming
  historical
  Comments
• Designing Virtual Worlds [2003]
  pdf book games
  Comments
• A 5x reduction in RAM usage with Zoekt memory optimizations
  go performance
  Comments
• Decentralized ETS Counters for Better Scalability
  erlang
  Comments
• Here's another free CA as an alternative to Let's Encrypt
  security
  Comments
• Propositions as Types [2015]
  video math programming
  Comments
• Commander X16: A Dreamy 8 Bit Computer Comes Closer To Reality
  hardware
  Comments
• Using the wgrep package in Emacs to rewrite grep results from lots of files
  emacs
  Comments

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

• Asking nicely for root command execution (and getting it)
  security
  Comments
• It never had to be like this: the git "index"
  vcs
  Comments
• Not-a-Linux distro review: SerenityOS is a Unix-y love letter to the ’90s
  osdev
  Comments
• coq_nvim: Fast nvim completion. SQLite, concurrent scheduler, hundreds of hours of optimization
  vim
  Comments
• It's Time to Retire the CSV
  databases
  Comments
• Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model
  ios
  Comments
• On Parsers
  plt
  Comments
• B-Trees: More Than I Thought I'd Want to Know
  databases
  Comments
• Firefox 91 - Revert to old tab style
  browsers css design
  Comments
• NetBSD Explained
  netbsd osdev unix
  Comments
• A few simple tricks to tune your github actions runtime
  devops performance testing
  Comments
• z3 made unreasonably easy
  python
  Comments

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

• Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• The Quest for Very Wide Outlines
  graphics
  Comments
• How Free Monads Yield Extensible Effects
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Programming Language Fragility
  compilers
  Comments
• Speeding up `atan2f` by 50x
  assembly c math performance
  Comments
• New Heterodox Mono: A Didone-esque Monospaced Typeface based on Alexey Kryukov's Old Standard TT
  design
  Comments
• Announcing Delta – Operational Transform in Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Adventures in WebRTC: Making Phone Calls from XMPP
  networking
  Comments
• Introducing incomplete: A Simple Clojure Code Completion Library
  clojure
  Comments
• Another year of Sofle keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Contributing to emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Mapping concepts to colors (terribly) with the Oklab perceptual colospace
  graphics
  Comments

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

• What domain name to use for your home network
  networking
  Comments
• You can list a directory containing 8 million files! But not with ls
  debugging linux
  Comments
• How to write fast Rust code
  performance rust
  Comments
• Debian celebrates our 28th Anniversary
  linux
  Comments
• Google/zx 3.0 release
  nodejs release
  Comments
• Async engines in C++20, Rust, & Zig
  video c++ plt rust zig
  Comments
• Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, DMARC, and SPF
  email networking
  Comments
• Namespaced De Bruijn indices
  plt
  Comments
• Why Your Dev Board Won’t Catch On: A Retrospective of Arduino’s Popularity
  hardware
  Comments
• Reining in the thundering herd - Getting to 80% CPU utilization with Django
  performance python web
  Comments
• Go 1.17 is released
  go release
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

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

• Debian 11 "bullseye" released
  linux release
  Comments
• Classical Data Structures That Can Outperform Learned Indexes
  ai performance
  Comments
• I figured out how DMARC works, and it almost broke me
  email
  Comments
• Let's write a compiler, part 1: Introduction, selecting a language, and doing some planning
  compilers
  Comments
• SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec
  ai
  Comments
• Rebase Considered Harmful
  vcs
  Comments
• A Deep Dive into Kubernetes External Traffic Policies
  devops networking
  Comments
• SRE Case Study: Mysterious Traffic Imbalance
  practices
  Comments
• Blackjack - Probabilities, Strategy, Card Counting - Calculation and Simulation
  math programming
  Comments
• atari64: Commodore 64 OS running on Atari 8-bit hardware
  assembly hardware osdev
  Comments
• Quick Intro to gdb
  video debugging programming
  Comments
• Thoughts On Lisp And Racket (2019)
  culture lisp
  Comments

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

• Debian 11 is being released
  linux release
  Comments
• GNU nano is my editor of choice
  programming
  Comments
• Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on programming horror
  compilers performance
  Comments
• Transfer URLs from Nyxt to your smartphone via QR Codes
  browsers emacs
  Comments
• MeiliSearch: A Minimalist Full-Text Search Engine
  rust
  Comments
• Progress Report: August 2021 - Asahi Linux
  hardware linux mac reversing virtualization
  Comments
• Writing Mobile apps in ClojureScript in 2021
  clojure mobile
  Comments
• DevOps Engineer Crash Course - Section 1
  devops
  Comments
• A Deep Dive into Nanite Virtualized Geometry
  pdf slides graphics
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering The Stream Deck
  hardware
  Comments
• History of the evolution of the x86 platform, from the IBM PC to the modern era
  hardware historical
  Comments
• The Michael Jackson Design Technique: A study of the theory with applications (2009)
  pdf practices
  Comments

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

• Rust GUI Infrastructure
  a11y design graphics rust
  Comments
• PackagingCon 2021 - a conference for package manager developers and packagers
  event
  Comments
• TLDs -- Putting the 'Fun' in the top of the DNS
  networking
  Comments
• Should the browser use all available memory?
  osdev performance
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• That One Cool Reader Trick
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store
  distributed
  Comments
• User Methods
  programming
  Comments
• Supporting half-precision floats is really annoying
  compilers plt
  Comments
• Thunderbird 91 Available Now
  email release
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Atkinson Dithering (2020)
  design graphics mac
  Comments
• Your First THINK C Program (2020)
  c historical mac
  Comments

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

• Breaking the web forward
  browsers web
  Comments
• Kind: A modern proof language
  formalmethods plt
  Comments
• Paranoid NixOS on AWS
  devops linux
  Comments
• FreeBSD Experiment Rethinks The OS Install
  freebsd
  Comments
• A future for SQL on the web
  databases javascript web
  Comments
• Session switching with the tmux menu
  unix
  Comments
• C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor
  show c compilers plt
  Comments
• New features in Neovim 0.5
  vim
  Comments
• Essence
  osdev
  Comments
• Procedurally generated fish drawings in javascript
  graphics javascript
  Comments
• GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
  practices release
  Comments
• String Interpolation in C# 10 and .NET 6
  dotnet
  Comments