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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Starting January 4, Google will block all sign-ins to Google accounts from embedded browsers
  browsers
  Comments
• The tab programming language
  plt unix
  Comments
• An experimental O(1) Garbage Collector
  show plt programming
  Comments
• Introducing Bupstash
  release
  Comments
• Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
  linux windows
  Comments
• Nyxt browser Dashboard
  browsers emacs
  Comments
• Eight years of engine development at Roblox
  graphics performance
  Comments
• Before the BSD Kernel starts: Part One on AMD64
  netbsd osdev
  Comments
• Tailscale on OpenBSD
  openbsd
  Comments
• Caramel: an OCaml to Erlang compiler
  erlang ml
  Comments
• Executives don’t understand software and that’s a problem
  practices
  Comments
• Developing Wayland Color Management and High Dynamic Range
  graphics linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Meet hello – Lets Make FreeBSD for Mere Mortals
  freebsd
  Comments
• Leap second hiatus
  networking
  Comments
• Coding Fonts Gallery
  design programming
  Comments
• Batteries included with Emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.48.0
  release rust
  Comments
• NIMBY Rails — A development retrospective
  games graphics
  Comments
• zfs.rent
  programming
  Comments
• My Beef With RuboCop
  ruby
  Comments
• New courses on distributed systems and elliptic curve cryptography
  crypto
  Comments
• Tailwind CSS 2 is out
  css release
  Comments
• Advent of Code in Haskell: T Minus 16
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Archives of Lisp Machine Inc
  hardware historical lisp
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How do Spotify Codes work?
  programming
  Comments
• 40 millisecond bug
  programming rust
  Comments
• cut vs. awk
  unix
  Comments
• FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
  historical web
  Comments
• Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
  assembly hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• POSIX write() is not atomic in the way that you might like
  api unix
  Comments
• On-demand linked libraries for Nix
  linux
  Comments
• Your first attempt at making anything accessible will be awful
  a11y
  Comments
• Unbound DNS Blacklist
  browsers freebsd illumos linux mac netbsd openbsd
  Comments
• Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs
  hardware security windows
  Comments
• Best aspects of C language
  c
  Comments
• Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Earns 7508 Multi-Core Score in Cinebench Benchmark
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Servo’s new home
  browsers rust
  Comments
• What Gödel Discovered
  historical math
  Comments
• Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
  browsers security
  Comments
• Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
  crypto security
  Comments
• TempleOS on real hardware Thinkpad T60 - RIP Terry Davis
  video osdev
  Comments
• Automatic syntax error recovery
  compilers
  Comments
• The Rust Performance Book
  book performance rust
  Comments
• Get real, you don't need Github
  rant vcs
  Comments
• From sharded Postgres to a columnar datastore; simpler lives and 2x better query performance
  databases
  Comments
• Upcoming Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main
  release vcs
  Comments
• Haiku activity report - October 2020
  osdev
  Comments
• Improving Vim Workflow With fzf
  vim
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• youtube-dl repository restored at GitHub
  law
  Comments
• How do you write simple explanations without sounding condescending?
  practices
  Comments
• Towards Tactic Metaprogramming in Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• Farewell, macOS
  linux mac
  Comments
• Introducing xd(1)
  release rust
  Comments
• Build systems à la carte: Theory and practice
  pdf practices
  Comments
• Introducing the Video Game Source Project
  art compsci games historical
  Comments
• Snow Leopard on unsupported PPC machines
  historical mac
  Comments
• BitChan: a decentralized anonymous imageboard built on Tor and GPG
  crypto networking
  Comments
• Use decision records already
  practices
  Comments
• The 7 commandments of debugging
  debugging practices programming
  Comments
• Emacs in odd places
  emacs
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Does Apple really log every app you run? A technical look
  mac security
  Comments
• Why Git blame sucks for understanding WTF code (and what you should use instead)
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Features of a Modern Terminal Emulator
  video unix
  Comments
• No, "Open Source" does not mean "Includes Free Support"
  practices rant
  Comments
• Force-with-lease: an alternative to force push
  vcs
  Comments
• dsnet: Simple command to manage a centralised wireguard VPN. Think wg-quick but quicker
  linux networking
  Comments
• Git Rebase: Don't be Afraid of the Force (Push)
  vcs
  Comments
• Has downvoting been removed for everyone, or just me?
  meta
  Comments
• My WebRTC video startup is hiring a distributed systems Rust programmer
  job rust
  Comments
• A Modest Proposal In The New Age of DMCA Takedown Aggression
  law
  Comments
• Moving my serverless project to Ruby on Rails
  ruby
  Comments
• Reverse-engineering the classic MK4116 16-kilobit DRAM chip
  hardware historical reversing
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Going Bark: A Furry’s Guide to End-to-End Encryption
  crypto javascript privacy security
  Comments
• Warp: Improved JS performance in Firefox 83
  compilers javascript
  Comments
• PL-Lefty, a Slightly More Ergonomic Polish Keyboard
  show a11y
  Comments
• We need less powerful languages (2015)
  compilers plt programming
  Comments
• Removing Support For The IndieWeb
  web
  Comments
• Forbidden Commands to Speed Up macOS
  mac security
  Comments
• dekuNukem/pimp_my_microwave
  art hardware reversing
  Comments
• Hunting for Malicious Packages on PyPI
  python security
  Comments
• Writing Software for an Among Us League
  games programming
  Comments
• About open-source community and the opennesss of projects to contributions
  ask programming
  Comments
• PokéWalker hacking
  assembly games hardware
  Comments
• GNUnet 0.14.0
  distributed networking release
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Everything is an X
  plt
  Comments
• M1 Memory and Performance
  hardware ios mac mobile performance
  Comments
• Dino 0.2 Release
  release
  Comments
• macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs
  mac
  Comments
• "Homeworld" will be the default theme for Debian 11
  linux
  Comments
• What are some differences between x86 and ARM processors
  ask hardware
  Comments
• Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 1 (Module Systems)
  plt
  Comments
• Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea
  networking
  Comments
• KPHP, a PHP C++ transpiler
  php
  Comments
• LazySSH - A jump-host SSH server that starts machines on-demand
  show devops
  Comments
• macOS Big Sur is here
  mac release
  Comments
• Program Development by Stepwise Refinement
  practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Evidence-based software engineering: book released
  book science
  Comments
• Chasing a Performance Regression with Erlang/OTP 22
  erlang performance
  Comments
• Linux graphics, why sharing code with Windows isn't always a win
  linux
  Comments
• Write code top-down
  practices programming
  Comments
• Postgres Observability
  databases devops
  Comments
• Everyone Talks About Insecure Randomness, But Nobody Does Anything About It
  crypto
  Comments
• Apple Special Event for November 10th, 2020
  video event ios mac
  Comments
• Go for Internal Services
  go
  Comments
• RustAudio/dasp
  rust
  Comments
• Extracting libraries with git subtree
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Will R Work on Apple Silicon?
  compilers hardware mac math
  Comments
• What Is The Purpose Of Private?
  programming
  Comments

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

• How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home
  linux security
  Comments
• Apple announces MacBook Air with Apple’s Arm-based M1 processor
  hardware mac
  Comments
• On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
  practices rant
  Comments
• Eleven Years of Go
  go programming
  Comments
• Indie Systems Programming Conference (Nov 14-15)
  event programming
  Comments
• With an 'alternative' keyboard layout, how do you use hjkl?
  ask vim
  Comments
• PySDR: A Guide to SDR and DSP using Python
  python
  Comments
• EmacsConf 2020 schedule, poster, watching, and participating
  emacs event
  Comments
• Modern IDEs are magic. Why are so many coders still using Vim and Emacs?
  emacs practices rant vim
  Comments
• PLATYPUS: With Great Power comes Great Leakage
  security
  Comments
• Optimizing your code is not the same as parallelizing your code
  performance python
  Comments
• McSema: An Executable Lifter
  assembly compilers programming
  Comments