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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
  compilers lua rust
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• Bypassing early 2000s copy protection for software preservation
  reversing
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• Enlightenment Desktop Environment 0.25.0
  linux release
  Comments
• What are some impressive user interfaces you've used based on their intended purpose?
  ask design
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• Using Hammerspoon to enhance and automate Bear.app on macOS
  lua mac
  Comments
• Avoid Yoda conditions in Perl you should
  perl practices
  Comments
• A Manifesto for Applicable Formal Methods
  pdf formalmethods
  Comments
• Analysis and reverse-engineering of the original Starlink router
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Maximalism and Virtualism
  philosophy
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• You can now use 'pip' to install Tailwind CSS. Node.js is no longer required
  python release web
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• Hypertext '87 (1987)
  pdf compsci culture
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• Unpragmatic static blog generator in OCaml
  ml web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• DIY Email
  email practices
  Comments
• Preventing log4j with Capabilities
  java plt
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Video Game Preservation
  games historical
  Comments
• RPG Maker: History & Games
  games
  Comments
• A Guide to Zsh Expansion with Examples
  unix
  Comments
• rC3 Fahrplan 2021
  event
  Comments
• Practical Markup Language (PML)
  programming
  Comments
• How do you use layers on your keyboard?
  ask practices
  Comments
• Interface Hall of Shame [2000]
  historical practices
  Comments
• System 76 Pangolin Review
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Windows 2000 Modernization Guide
  historical windows
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Systemd's clock-epoch for RTC-less systems
  systemd
  Comments
• SuperTux 0.6.3
  games linux release
  Comments
• State of Valhalla: Part 1: The Road to Valhalla
  plt
  Comments
• X.509 Style Guide
  cryptography satire
  Comments
• Category Theory Resources for an enthusiast
  math plt
  Comments
• Signal Desktop on OpenBSD via vmm(4)
  openbsd
  Comments
• Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes
  hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• Learn Common Lisp by Example: Qt GUI with EQL5
  c++ lisp
  Comments
• Benchmarking Ruby 2.5 to 3.1
  ruby
  Comments
• The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Pros and cons of BESM-6
  historical
  Comments
• RuES is a Expression Evaluation as Service
  rust
  Comments
• Performance Anti-Patterns (2006)
  performance
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The lost talks from Linus Torvalds at DECUS'94
  linux
  Comments
• Fix the unit test and open a giant hole everywhere
  practices testing
  Comments
• Ruby 3.1.0 Released
  release ruby
  Comments
• Cool, but obscure X11 tools
  unix
  Comments
• The Pinouts Book
  book hardware
  Comments
• Street Fighter II: Rotating and Scaling
  games graphics historical
  Comments
• Introduction to the Sam Text Editor
  programming
  Comments
• The simplest web server: while + nc
  linux
  Comments
• Roll Your Own Network
  networking
  Comments
• Observability vs. monitoring debate: An irreverent view
  distributed performance
  Comments
• Why you probably shouldn’t add a CLA to your open source project (2018)
  culture law
  Comments
• Zolatron 64 - first PCBs
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Running your own email is increasingly an artisanal choice, not a practical one
  email practices
  Comments
• Happy Holidays, Crustaceans
  meta
  Comments
• What do you think of this type of “terminal based programming tutorial”?
  ask programming python
  Comments
• Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?
  rant
  Comments
• Systemd 250 released
  linux release systemd
  Comments
• How to avoid complicated coordinated upgrades
  rust
  Comments
• Useful old technologies: ASN.1
  programming
  Comments
• Hera: a customized hybrid of Source Code Pro and Fira Mono
  programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• systemd 250 released
  linux release systemd
  Comments
• Selling my own GPL software, part 1: a lot of hurdles
  law
  Comments
• Linux RNG replaces the SHA-1 entropy extractor with BLAKE2s
  cryptography linux security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tools You Should Know About: nix-shell
  nix
  Comments
• The Mega Matrix Holiday Special 2021
  programming
  Comments
• Canon Cat
  compsci historical
  Comments
• A few About boxes from vintage Mac applications
  historical mac
  Comments
• Street Fighter II, paper trails
  games graphics historical
  Comments
• Wine on Wayland year-end update: improved functionality & stability
  graphics linux windows
  Comments
• Everything I've seen on optimizing Postgres on ZFS
  databases performance
  Comments
• A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life
  lisp
  Comments
• Learning Go Generics with Advent of Code
  go
  Comments
• Where's the Interpreter!? (CVE-2021-30853)
  mac security
  Comments
• Formal verification of IA-64 division algorithms (2000)
  pdf formalmethods
  Comments
• w2c2: Translates WebAssembly modules to C
  c compilers wasm
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• libgrapheme - A suckless Unicode string library
  c release unix
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• Why is C faster than Java: git vs JGit (2009)
  c java vcs
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• How to Draw S-Curved Arrows Between Boxes / Rectangles
  graphics javascript
  Comments
• 34 at 34 for v5.34: Modern Perl features for Perl’s birthday
  perl
  Comments
• Ordering Movie Credits With Graph Theory
  compsci
  Comments
• FreeBSD jails for fun and profit (2020)
  freebsd
  Comments
• dsq: Run SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more
  show databases go
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• Plato's Dashboards
  devops
  Comments
• MS Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities
  security
  Comments
• Attempting to use GNU Guix, again
  nix
  Comments
• OpenBSD on MeLE Quieter2
  hardware openbsd
  Comments
• Arc Borrowing Patterns
  rust
  Comments

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

• LISP with GC in 436 bytes
  lisp
  Comments
• Zig 0.9.0 Release Notes
  release zig
  Comments
• Pull Request for Multicore OCaml
  ml
  Comments
• Three Minor Features in Go 1.18
  go
  Comments
• Stop Whining about Rust Hype - A Pro-Rust Rant
  rant rust
  Comments
• linuxtouchpad.org - The Linux Touchpad Dev Guide
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Generics facilitators in Go
  go
  Comments
• Erlang & ASN.1(Abstract Syntax Notation One)
  erlang
  Comments
• Disclosing Shamir’s Secret Sharing vulnerabilities and announcing ZKDocs
  cryptography
  Comments
• Coding
  programming
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• Inside a PBX - Discovering a Firmware Backdoor
  reversing
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• A proposal for contexts and capabilities in Rust
  rust
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A challenger to the throne of vector graphics. SVG is dead, long live TinyVG
  graphics release
  Comments
• The container throttling problem
  linux
  Comments
• Comparing the Librem 5 USA and PinePhone Beta
  hardware linux mobile
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• Why Derw: an Elm-like language that compiles to TypeScript?
  elm ml
  Comments
• Simple script to use md5sum inline within `curl | sh -`
  linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Upgrading a motherboard’s BIOS/UEFI (the hard way)
  hardware
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• xj — HTML to JSON
  lisp unix
  Comments
• Inverting PhotoDNA
  show ai privacy reversing security
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• Losslessly compress RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup
  programming
  Comments
• Pop!_OS Linux 21.10: My Review
  linux
  Comments
• Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
  compsci math performance
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What are you planning to learn in 2022?
  ask practices
  Comments
• Accurate mental model for Rust's reference types
  rust
  Comments
• Perl turns 34 today
  perl
  Comments
• Emacs's Pure GTK front-end branch has been merged
  emacs
  Comments
• Looking for source of quote: "Sys admins didn't disappear; they got hired by AWS and Google"
  ask culture
  Comments
• Designing a new PRNG
  compsci
  Comments
• Announcing Tokio Console 0.1
  release rust
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• Xcode 13.2 contains Log4j vulnerability
  security
  Comments
• rlr: interactive pixel screen ruler and protractor
  show design rust
  Comments
• Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time
  culture
  Comments
• Thread Safety in C++ and Rust
  c++ rust
  Comments
• Why isn't ld.lld faster
  compilers
  Comments