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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 22, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hacking around with the ScotRail audio announcements
  programming python
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• On Estimates
  practices programming
  Comments
• Cryptographic Agility and Superior Alternatives
  cryptography
  Comments
• Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk
  c programming unix
  Comments
• The Myth of Mass Collaboration
  culture programming
  Comments
• QuineDot/rust-snags: Gotchas and warts in Rust Lang
  plt rust
  Comments
• Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
  c
  Comments
• The Excellent Schemer
  lisp windows
  Comments
• Executable shared ELF files
  programming
  Comments
• The Flang Compiler (LLVM’s Fortran frontend)
  compilers fortran
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• FreeBSD 11.0-13.0 LPE via aio_aqueue Kernel Refcount Bug
  freebsd security
  Comments
• SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions
  databases go
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Zig is now self-hosted by default
  zig
  Comments
• Why don't we do email verification in reverse?
  email programming
  Comments
• XScreenSaver was released 30 years ago
  art historical
  Comments
• Reader Macros in Common Lisp
  lisp
  Comments
• The Pijul version control system
  vcs
  Comments
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Macros
  c lisp rust
  Comments
• Haskell static site generator, Ema 0.8, with composability and generic routes
  haskell release
  Comments
• Cake: a C23 compiler frond end written from scratch in C
  c
  Comments
• Jack Sparrow's Compass
  hardware
  Comments
• A new way of blogging about Common Lisp (2018)
  lisp web
  Comments
• Butterick’s Practical Typography
  design
  Comments
• Resolving an unusual wifi issue (2020)
  c++ networking
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 20, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• InAppBrowser.com
  ios security
  Comments
• Natalie, a Ruby Dialect
  c++ ruby
  Comments
• CPython now support for the LLVM-BOLT post-link binary optimizer
  compilers python
  Comments
• Removing HTTP/2 Server Push from Chrome
  browsers web
  Comments
• The James Webb Space Telescope runs JavaScript, apparently
  javascript
  Comments
• The Fit and Finish of the All-New System Settings on MacOS 13 Ventura
  design mac
  Comments
• Apple’s use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS
  mac
  Comments
• Developers, please nurture your coding experience
  compsci practices programming
  Comments
• Cosmopolitan v2.0
  c release
  Comments
• The Nota interactive document language
  programming
  Comments
• The Dark History of Zip Files
  video historical
  Comments
• Crabs All the Way Down: Running Rust on Logic Gates
  rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers
  security
  Comments
• ravynOS – Finesse of macOS. Freedom of FreeBSD
  freebsd
  Comments
• Files That Change Together Should Stick Together
  practices programming
  Comments
• Linux 6.0 includes an io_uring-based user-space block driver
  linux
  Comments
• Programming breakthroughs we need
  compsci
  Comments
• Millet, a language server for SML
  ml
  Comments
• nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device
  android linux nix programming unix
  Comments
• But You Told Me You Were Safe: Attacking the Mozilla Firefox Renderer (Part 1)
  browsers security
  Comments
• Play music from your LCD monitor with a radio
  art programming
  Comments
• I love my GPD Micro PC
  hardware linux
  Comments
• How big is a string?
  javascript nodejs
  Comments
• Using :has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more
  css
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 18, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why I left PINE64
  linux mobile person
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• I have complicated feelings about TDD
  testing
  Comments
• When docker images stop being portable
  debugging devops linux
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• Yabai — A tiling window manager for macOS
  mac
  Comments
• FreeBSD - a lesson in poor defaults
  freebsd security
  Comments
• jank programming language - Clojure/LLVM/Gradual Typing
  c++ clojure
  Comments
• Quality of random number generators significantly affects results of Monte Carlo simulations for organic and biological systems
  science
  Comments
• Peacock | Bind Patterns
  plt
  Comments
• On REPL-Driven Programming
  lisp
  Comments
• Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2
  ai games graphics
  Comments
• Hooking Go from Rust - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Go-laxy
  assembly go rust
  Comments
• A tour of Spritely Institute's tech
  distributed lisp
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 17, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rust in Perspective
  historical plt rust
  Comments
• How I Hacked my Car
  programming security
  Comments
• What is RSS?
  web
  Comments
• How Discord Supercharges Network Disks for Extreme Low Latency
  linux performance
  Comments
• Thoughts on a job/pay history page on website?
  ask job
  Comments
• AFFiNE: There can be more than Notion and Miro
  web
  Comments
• Using the Same Arch Linux Installation for a Decade
  linux
  Comments
• The three-page paper that shook philosophy: Gettiers in software engineering [2019]
  philosophy programming
  Comments
• kellyjonbrazil/jc: convert the output of command-line tools, files, and strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries
  programming python
  Comments
• UUIDv4 in three different array languages
  apl
  Comments
• great-houk/mouse-project: DIY Gaming Mouse
  hardware rust
  Comments
• Rise of the Anti-Join
  databases performance
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Getting the World Record in HATETRIS
  ai games
  Comments
• Introducing Horizon Linux (Switch OS Emulation)
  hardware linux osdev
  Comments
• MVPy: Minimum Viable Python
  plt python
  Comments
• Optimizing for JavaScript is hard
  elm javascript performance
  Comments
• Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux
  linux
  Comments
• Lux 0.7 is out! Lisp for JVM, JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Lua with static types
  lisp
  Comments
• The Matrix Summer Special 2022
  distributed
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• Big Changes Ahead for Deno
  javascript
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Implementing Bitcask, a Log-Structured Hash Table
  programming
  Comments
• Twilio Incident: What Signal Users Need to Know
  security
  Comments
• What happens if you point two CNAMEs at each other? Not much, really
  networking
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Introducing muxfs -- a mirroring, checksumming, and self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD
  merkle-trees openbsd
  Comments
• Erg: A Python-compatible statically typed language
  plt
  Comments
• Small script to scrub your GitHub
  privacy programming
  Comments
• Passgen: A password generator that uses a regex-like syntax to create secure passwords of any shape
  show c linux security
  Comments
• diy code hosting with gitea and fly.io
  devops vcs
  Comments
• Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse
  pdf plt
  Comments
• On syntactic sugar
  practices
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• The C free() API means memory allocation must save some metadata
  c
  Comments
• Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science
  ai
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• Symlinks as mount portals: Abusing container mount points on MikroTik's RouterOS to gain code execution
  networking security
  Comments
• Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04
  assembly
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• What is Backoff For?
  distributed
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• IPFS and their gateways
  security
  Comments
• Process injection: breaking all macOS security layers with a single vulnerability
  mac security
  Comments
• Cranelift: Using E-Graphs for Verified, Cooperating Middle-End Optimizations
  compilers rust
  Comments
• You Suck at Excel (2015)
  video programming
  Comments
• Stop using bool in C++ for function parameters
  c++
  Comments
• pwnedkeys
  security
  Comments
• Make Linux look like Star Trek LCARS
  linux
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• PyPI Package 'secretslib' Drops Fileless Linux Malware to Mine Monero
  python security
  Comments
• From XON/XOFF to Forward Incremental Search
  unix
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• Call-by-Need Is Clairvoyant Call-by-Value (2019)
  pdf plt
  Comments
• The trouble with 64-bit DMA
  linux
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• checkmake: experimental linter/analyzer for Makefiles
  c programming unix
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 13, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Excel is Pretty Dang Cool
  programming
  Comments
• Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
  go
  Comments
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
  programming
  Comments
• Why Xcode tools are slow after reboot
  mac
  Comments
• Asdf Performance
  performance
  Comments
• GHC 9.4.1 is now available
  haskell release
  Comments
• Avoid Spaghetti Code with Scope Minimization
  practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Experimentally compiling PHP code to Rust
  php rust
  Comments
• Confusion in the Church-Turing Thesis
  compsci
  Comments
• Roc is a language for making delightful software
  plt
  Comments
• Extending SQLite with Rust
  databases rust
  Comments