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

• It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to
  programming
  Comments
• Zoom iOS app sending data to Facebook even w/o FB account
  ios security
  Comments
• Keyboard recommendations
  ask hardware
  Comments
• The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it
  linux osdev
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• Static analysis in GCC 10
  c
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• Lightweight Linux VMs on NixOS
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• The polygons of DOOM: PSX
  games graphics historical reversing
  Comments
• Amiga Machine Code Course
  assembly historical
  Comments
• Dumping MiniDisc Media
  hardware
  Comments
• Natural Language Principles in Perl
  perl plt
  Comments
• Setting Up Git Identities
  vcs
  Comments
• (2015) Embedding LuaJIT in 30 minutes (or so)
  c lua
  Comments

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

• 10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
  historical plt
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• MeiliSearch: Zero config alternative to ElasticSearch
  programming rust
  Comments
• A "living" Linux process with no memory
  assembly c linux
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• Hello World UEFI application
  assembly
  Comments
• Dockerized folding@home client, with Nvidia GPU support
  distributed
  Comments
• 4K display for remote work from home
  ask hardware
  Comments
• Crossbow 0.9.0
  c release unix web
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• Taking You Down To Tilde Town
  culture unix web
  Comments
• Migrating From Authy to Bitwarden for 2FA Codes
  security
  Comments
• Booting from an FFS2 filesystem
  openbsd
  Comments
• Pentesting a banking FTP service
  reversing security
  Comments
• Oil 0.8.pre3 - A Line Editor and a Continuous Build
  programming release unix
  Comments

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

• Apple just killed Offline Web Apps while purporting to protect your privacy: why that’s A Bad Thing and why you should care
  mac web
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• Why We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory
  scaling
  Comments
• A Crash Course on ML Modules
  haskell ml plt
  Comments
• Mixing Gleam & Elixir
  elixir ml
  Comments
• Should I use Vim full-time?
  vim
  Comments
• Speeding up Linux disk encryption
  crypto linux performance
  Comments
• LLVM 10.0.0 Release
  compilers release
  Comments
• How are Unix pipes implemented?
  unix
  Comments
• Yak Shaving - Swift Edition
  swift
  Comments
• Sync Postgres data between databases
  databases
  Comments
• mit-pdos/xv6-riscv - Xv6 for RISC-V
  osdev unix
  Comments
• Reducing memory consumption in librsvg, part 3: slack space in Bézier paths - Federico's Blog
  performance rust
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• `zig cc`: a Powerful Drop-In Replacement for GCC/Clang - Andrew Kelley
  c compilers
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• Svelte is unappealing
  web
  Comments
• Concurrent programming, with examples
  c programming
  Comments
• Why we use 1U servers, and the two sides of them
  hardware
  Comments
• Resilience: An Ad Blocker Without Compromises
  privacy
  Comments
• What are you working on this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• An SRE's guide to Memcached for building scalable applications
  devops
  Comments
• An in-depth Look at OCaml’s new “Best-fit” Garbage Collector Strategy
  ml
  Comments
• So You Want Git for Data?
  databases vcs
  Comments
• GHC 8.10.1 release notes
  haskell release
  Comments
• Another look at two Linux KASLR patches
  crypto linux security
  Comments
• The Geometry Engine: A VLSI Geometry System for Graphics (1982)
  pdf graphics hardware historical
  Comments

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

• I Want Decentralized Version Control for Structured Data
  databases vcs
  Comments
• Two Years With Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Ignoring bulk change commits with git blame
  vcs
  Comments
• How do you setup emacs?
  ask emacs
  Comments
• GodQL - God's Query Language
  databases philosophy satire
  Comments
• Understanding Google’s File System
  databases distributed
  Comments
• Avoiding the 'dangling else' language problem with mandatory block markers
  plt
  Comments
• Self-hosting a tiny git remote
  vcs
  Comments
• Remote buffer overflow DOS 0-day in Memcached 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 (latest)
  security
  Comments
• FreeBSD Linuxulator Explained
  freebsd
  Comments
• Three typefaces for mathematics (2007)
  pdf design math
  Comments
• An idea for generics at the OS level
  osdev plt
  Comments

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

• COVID-19 OSS HELP
  science
  Comments
• “Premature optimization is the root of all evil” is the root of evil
  performance rant
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• Learning embedded Rust by building RISC-V-powered robot - Part 1
  show hardware rust
  Comments
• Who's ready for more Networking History? - all about APPLETALK
  historical mac networking
  Comments
• Announcing F# 5 preview 1
  dotnet
  Comments
• Automate your iTerm layouts and session setup
  python
  Comments
• The Phix Programming Language
  programming
  Comments
• Inside a Titan missile guidance computer
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Math and coding resources for homeschooling
  education math programming
  Comments
• Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction
  math
  Comments
• Reverse engineering Blind’s API and client side encryption
  api reversing
  Comments
• The Original Sin Of A Software System
  practices
  Comments

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

• Google Says It Doesn’t 'Sell' Your Data. Here’s How the Company Shares, Monetizes, and Exploits It
  privacy web
  Comments
• Comparing Alternatives to top Written in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• De-Googling My Life - 2 Years On
  privacy
  Comments
• EAX x86 Register: Meaning and History
  assembly
  Comments
• How Tailscale works
  networking
  Comments
• Cheatsheet: Option (in Rust) vs Maybe (in Haskell)
  haskell rust
  Comments
• A Conversation with Arthur Whitney (2009)
  apl person
  Comments
• Simplify: move code into database functions
  api databases practices
  Comments
• uLisp - Sipeed Maixduino RISC-V board
  hardware lisp
  Comments
• Memory-Safety Challenge Considered Solved? An Empirical Study with All Rust CVEs
  pdf rust security
  Comments
• Cshell is punk rock
  unix
  Comments
• Discord Incident Report (March 16 Outage)
  debugging devops elixir erlang go practices
  Comments

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

• RSS: The Original Federated Social Network Protocol
  historical web
  Comments
• Writing Your First PAM Module
  c unix
  Comments
• meme.el
  emacs graphics
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Secure Rust Guidelines
  rust security
  Comments
• Your Database as an API
  databases
  Comments
• A Brief History of Quantum Computers
  compsci crypto historical
  Comments
• Databases that use git as a backend?
  ask databases distributed vcs
  Comments
• NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields
  ai graphics
  Comments
• The power of terminology in codebase
  practices
  Comments
• How I Optimise My Website Performance
  web
  Comments
• Tracking Firmware Code Size
  c hardware
  Comments

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

• Let's Prove Leftpad
  formalmethods
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• Wikimedia Foundation selects Vue.js as their new frontend framework
  javascript practices programming web
  Comments
• Over 300 Free MIT Licensed High Quality SVG Icons
  graphics
  Comments
• Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?
  philosophy python
  Comments
• Why you shouldn't use func main in Go
  go
  Comments
• Microsoft Edge Is The Least Private Browser, Study Finds
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• Sorting out Go's 'for ... = range ..' and when it copies things
  go
  Comments
• Left recursion in recursive descent parsers a new solution?
  compsci programming
  Comments
• Google Halts Chrome/Chrome OS Releases to Ensure Stability During Pandemic
  browsers
  Comments
• zectl ZFS Boot Environment Manager for Linux
  linux release
  Comments
• VS Code’s Docker extension generates insecure and broken images
  devops security
  Comments
• A declarative process manager-agnostic deployment framework based on Nix tooling
  osdev systemd unix
  Comments

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

• The reckless, infinite scope of web browsers
  browsers rant
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• An Open Letter to Web Developers
  philosophy practices web
  Comments
• Cambridge University Press makes all textbooks free to access online until end of May
  book
  Comments
• Notes for 'Thinking with Types: Type-level Programming in Haskell', Chapters 1–5
  book haskell plt
  Comments
• A Pascal compiler in Haskell that compiles to LLVM
  compilers haskell
  Comments
• NTP: Building a more accurate time service at Facebook scale
  networking
  Comments
• When do you earn your pay?
  practices
  Comments
• Using OpenBSD relayd to Add Security Headers
  openbsd
  Comments
• Marvell Announces ThunderX3 - 96 Cores & 384 Threads ARM Server Processor
  hardware
  Comments
• How To Find Your First Client As A Freelance Software Developer in 2020
  practices
  Comments
• Hershey Vector Font
  design graphics
  Comments
• Dos and don'ts in open source
  programming
  Comments