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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Parentheses Are Just Typechecking
  lisp plt
  Comments
• Your CPU May Have Slowed Down on Wednesday
  performance
  Comments
• Ditching OpenPGP, a new approach to signing APT repositories
  crypto security
  Comments
• Spot the Difference
  elixir erlang
  Comments
• Nyxt 2.1.0
  browsers emacs
  Comments
• No branches? No problem — a Forth assembler
  programming
  Comments
• Static Integer Types
  plt
  Comments
• Past Futures of Programming: General Magic's Telescript
  historical networking programming
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• How the Next Layer of the Internet is Going to be Standardised
  culture law practices privacy
  Comments
• elfcat: visualize ELF binaries
  linux
  Comments
• McKeeman Form
  compilers
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• I wanted an easy way to automatically deploy Docker Compose apps so I made one: Harbormaster
  devops virtualization
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Finding the Bottom Turtle
  compilers
  Comments
• What's your preferred tool for load testing?
  ask performance testing
  Comments
• Previewing SwiftUI layouts in Emacs (revisited)
  emacs mac programming swift
  Comments
• Migrating away from apt-key
  linux
  Comments
• Path tracing Quake in Blender
  graphics
  Comments
• Are We Really Engineers?
  culture practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Writing a Linux Debugger
  debugging linux
  Comments
• JPEG XL would be Turing-complete
  graphics programming
  Comments
• JEP 411: Deprecate the Security Manager for Removal
  java security
  Comments
• Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Progress in support for the riscv64 platform
  openbsd
  Comments

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

• “%p%s%s%s%s%n” breaks Wi-Fi on iPhones
  ios security
  Comments
• Quick Analysis for the SSID Format String Bug
  ios reversing
  Comments
• youtube-dl alternative in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Have you ever had/given a really good interview?
  ask practices
  Comments
• Help, My Sin Is Slow and My FPU is Inaccurate
  math
  Comments
• Nixos-unstable’s iso_minimal.x86_64-linux is 100% reproducible
  linux
  Comments
• Adventures in Writing Othello Software for iOS and macOS
  ai games ios mac
  Comments
• On ethics using analytics
  practices privacy
  Comments
• Counterfactuals are not Causality
  practices
  Comments
• How to clone a PC and boot it into a virtual machine
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• Handbook of geometry for competitive programmers (2018)
  pdf graphics
  Comments
• Sending audio to LKV373 HDMI extenders
  hardware reversing
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A day in the life of a professional software engineer
  satire
  Comments
• Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
  email go
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• State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
  design windows
  Comments
• Blurring the lines between shell and editor
  emacs programming
  Comments
• The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server
  devops linux
  Comments
• Reverse engineering and fixing a bug in the firmware of a "ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard with TrackPoint"
  reversing
  Comments
• Verkle trees
  compsci merkle-trees
  Comments
• What does First Normal Form actually mean?
  databases
  Comments
• Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
  culture
  Comments
• Data-Oriented Design (Or Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP)
  performance practices programming
  Comments
• Video: Creating a macOS Droplet with AppleScript
  video mac
  Comments
• Sudoku as a SAT Problem (2006)
  pdf compsci
  Comments

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

• io_uring is not an event system
  api linux
  Comments
• Learning to Love a Rigid and Inflexible Language
  programming
  Comments
• A Tired Raccoon’s Containerization Manifesto: Just Do the Containering
  devops linux practices
  Comments
• ARTSEY - One-Handed Keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Gently Down the Stream - A gentle introduction to Apache Kafka
  databases programming
  Comments
• How to end up with 500,000 commits in your log
  practices programming
  Comments
• The only way to go fast, is to go well
  practices testing
  Comments
• Fedora contemplates the driverless printing future
  hardware linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Unreliability At Scale
  compsci hardware
  Comments
• Three ways to bulk rename files
  unix
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• Design for Safari 15
  browsers design mac
  Comments

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

• Modern Unix tools
  linux unix
  Comments
• tomnomnom/gron - Make JSON greppable
  programming
  Comments
• How the K-line got its name: history of IRC daemon configuration
  historical
  Comments
• v0.16 - Gleam compiles to JavaScript
  erlang javascript release
  Comments
• Pwning Home Router - Linksys WRT54G
  reversing security
  Comments
• Representing SHA-256 Hashes As Avatars
  crypto graphics
  Comments
• cariboulabs/cariboulite - turn any 40-pin Raspberry-Pi into a Tx/Rx 6GHz SDR
  hardware
  Comments
• Explaining Code using ASCII Art (2019)
  programming
  Comments
• Designing a Better strcpy
  c
  Comments
• Apple M1, three months later
  mac
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.53.0
  release rust
  Comments
• ASCIIFlow diagram tool
  programming
  Comments

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

• Why I no longer contribute to Racket
  lisp person
  Comments
• bliss(v2), a library for making audio playlists
  audio show rust
  Comments
• Big Time Public License 1.0.0
  law
  Comments
• My EC2 wishlist
  freebsd
  Comments
• Say helloSystem: Mac-like FreeBSD project emits 0.5 release
  freebsd linux mac
  Comments
• OpenPGP.js: OpenPGP JavaScript Implementation
  browsers crypto javascript
  Comments
• When it comes to git history, less is more
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Mu's neighborhood
  security
  Comments
• Cryptanalysis of the GPRS Encryption Algorithms GEA-1 and GEA-2
  crypto reversing
  Comments
• The Oddest Place You Will Ever Find PAC
  hardware security
  Comments
• Designing data access layer, pt. I
  databases
  Comments
• Migration of Bing’s Workflow Engine to .NET 5
  dotnet
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 16, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ripgrep 13.0.0 released
  release rust
  Comments
• Introducing cap-std, a capability-based version of the Rust standard library
  rust security
  Comments
• Sick of the stupid jokes? Write your own arbitrary-precision JavaScript math library
  javascript math
  Comments
• Comment the Why *and* the What
  practices
  Comments
• Writing fast async HTTP requests in Python
  python web
  Comments
• Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
  programming
  Comments
• Did you know that you can 100% legally get & run WordPerfect for free?
  linux mac
  Comments
• Untapped potential in Rust’s type system
  plt rust
  Comments
• Fully Homomorphic Encryption
  c++ crypto
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• Do You Really Need Redis? How to Get Away with Just PostgreSQL
  databases
  Comments
• dida - differential dataflow for mere mortals
  show databases zig
  Comments
• Linux with "memory folios": a 7% performance boost when compiling the kernel
  linux
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 15, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• the end of freenode
  culture historical
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• Why 4:54 is the perfect speedrun - Super Mario Bros. World Record Speedrun Explained
  video games reversing
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• A Trivial, Dangerous, False Assumption on Links
  security web
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• Prolog Heritage
  plt
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• Main is usually a function. So then when is it not?
  c
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• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Retrogaming: My first Z80 assembly language program
  assembly games historical
  Comments
• Pinebook Pro Arch Linux Alternative
  linux
  Comments
• Should we be concerned that the decisions of AIs are inscrutable?
  ai
  Comments
• Adventures in fuzzing libolm
  distributed security
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• HotOS 2021: Cores That Don’t Count (Fun Hardware)
  video hardware
  Comments
• Exploit a binary with SigReturn Oriented Programming (SROP)
  security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 14, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line
  security
  Comments
• Using Paper for Everyday Tasks
  practices
  Comments
• Using black magic to make a fast circular buffer
  c programming
  Comments
• Taildrop was kind of easy, actually
  networking
  Comments
• Decoding the signal from 1988 Videophone
  reversing
  Comments
• Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb’s variations
  privacy
  Comments
• IRC Bot in bash: neo8ball
  show programming
  Comments
• Rust 1.x seems to not always be backward compatible in practice
  rust
  Comments
• Sizedness in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• My favourite C++ footgun
  c++
  Comments
• Debian Bullseye Full Freeze starts on 2021-07-17
  linux
  Comments
• Issue 38980: Compile libpython with -fno-semantic-interposition
  performance python
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