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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 3, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves
  historical
  Comments
• Time on Unix
  unix
  Comments
• Microsoft: Why we used programming language Rust over Go for WebAssembly on Kubernetes app
  go rust wasm
  Comments
• State Machine In Real Life
  compsci
  Comments
• Rust-Written Redox OS Booting The 128-Thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
  osdev rust
  Comments
• QEMU version 5.0.0 released - QEMU
  release
  Comments
• psychicpaper
  ios security
  Comments
• Can QUIC match the computational efficiency of TCP?
  networking performance
  Comments
• Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?
  design
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Multipole Methods for the Masses
  math programming
  Comments
• Rust in an instant
  rust unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 2, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Complexity Has to Live Somewhere
  philosophy
  Comments
• If you're hiring, be forthcoming about the dev experience
  practices programming
  Comments
• ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)
  web
  Comments
• Rust/WinRT Public Preview
  rust windows
  Comments
• GNU poke, an editor for binary data
  programming
  Comments
• Text file driven applications
  programming
  Comments
• Gemini a protocol inbetween gopher and the web
  networking web
  Comments
• Euler's FizzBuzz
  math programming
  Comments
• The Making of Stunt Island
  games historical
  Comments
• Why Haskell Matters
  haskell
  Comments
• Rob Pike interview for Evrone: “Go has become the language of cloud infrastructure”
  go
  Comments
• Ray Tracing with POV-Ray: 25 scenes in 25 days (2013)
  graphics
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 1, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Announcing the SourceHut project hub
  release
  Comments
• The problem of Ubuntu 20.04, Snaps, and where your home directory is
  browsers linux
  Comments
• Notes on Parsing in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• What port numbers do programmers like to use?
  networking visualization
  Comments
• on the usability of editable software
  practices programming
  Comments
• SSH hacks | a little sanity for remote workers
  devops
  Comments
• Bringing a decade old vector editor back to life
  programming reversing
  Comments
• Code Browser - A Folding Text Editor
  programming
  Comments
• HashiCorp Vault is Overhyped, and Mozilla SOPS with KMS and Git is Massively Underrated
  devops security
  Comments
• DVD+R and DVD-R; What was that about?
  video hardware historical
  Comments
• Jepsen: Dgraph 1.1.1
  databases distributed testing
  Comments
• Why strace doesn't work in Docker
  debugging linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• IPFS 0.5.0 is here! Our largest upgrade to IPFS yet
  distributed release
  Comments
• Live Coding a Basic Chat Server in Zig with Evented I/O (2019)
  video programming
  Comments
• Smarter C/C++ inlining with __attribute__((flatten))
  c c++
  Comments
• Tag Request: editors
  meta
  Comments
• Does anyone use the mouse with terminal applications?
  ask unix
  Comments
• Programming Idioms
  programming
  Comments
• Matching binary patterns with Erlang
  education erlang
  Comments
• Bug stories
  debugging
  Comments
• I think you should generally be using the latest version of Go
  go
  Comments
• 10 Reasons to Use Haskell
  haskell
  Comments
• B-trees
  compsci
  Comments
• rsfetch: Fast (~1ms execution time) and somewhat(?) minimal fetch program written in Rust
  linux programming rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Hard Part of Learning a Language
  practices rant
  Comments
• Why not "Why not WireGuard?"
  linux networking
  Comments
• Server-Side Rendering is a Thiel Truth
  performance web
  Comments
• "The Great ISAs" reading list
  hardware
  Comments
• Hacker Folklore
  culture historical
  Comments
• Tmux for mere mortals
  practices
  Comments
• Packaging LXD for Arch Linux
  go linux
  Comments
• Hacking Together an E-ink Dashboard
  hardware programming python
  Comments
• Fedora 32 is officially here
  linux release
  Comments
• is-promise post mortem
  javascript nodejs
  Comments
• Numbers in Python
  math python
  Comments
• Notes on the Plan 9 3rd Edition Kernel Source
  pdf osdev programming
  Comments

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

• rust-analyzer - First Release
  release rust
  Comments
• Controlling my A/C with a Gameboy
  hardware programming
  Comments
• The argument against clearing the database between tests
  practices testing
  Comments
• What are you working on this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Restoring the gold filter in Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director’s Cut
  graphics reversing
  Comments
• Towards Sequoia v1.0
  security
  Comments
• Newtype-like tagged tuples in Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• A Warm Welcome to ASN.1 and DER
  programming
  Comments
• Treachery of Representation
  programming
  Comments
• What Happened to IPv5? Why there is IPv4, IPv6 but no IPv5?
  historical
  Comments
• Internals of Zabavno the x86 emulator
  assembly lisp
  Comments
• Metaprogramming in Flat Assembler
  assembly programming windows
  Comments

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

• What's coming in Go 1.15
  slides go performance
  Comments
• New Features in Python 3.9 You Should Know About
  python
  Comments
• The dForce and Hegic DeFi exploits, and why Smart Contracts are bad
  cryptocurrencies
  Comments
• A janet web framework
  lisp web
  Comments
• CastleDB - The structured static database
  databases
  Comments
• Speeding up the Sixty compiler
  compilers haskell
  Comments
• la-karda - A distilled overview of the Lojban language
  philosophy
  Comments
• Books I recommend to my software engineering students
  book
  Comments
• My Thoughts On Ubuntu 20.04
  linux
  Comments
• A High-Level Gameplan To Start Playing With FPGAs
  hardware
  Comments
• Teleforking a process onto a different computer
  distributed linux
  Comments
• cx: A directory history utility written in C
  c unix
  Comments

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

• I translated a simple C program to x86_64 and it was slower
  show assembly
  Comments
• Agile’s Early Evangelists Wouldn’t Mind Watching It Die
  practices
  Comments
• My NixOS Desktop Flow
  linux
  Comments
• Maybe Visual Programming is The Answer. Maybe Not
  compsci
  Comments
• Releasing software to the fleet far too quickly broke stuff
  devops practices
  Comments
• iPhone SE and the Commodification of the Pocket Computer
  ios practices
  Comments
• Cancelable Reads in Go
  go programming
  Comments
• Programming is not a goal
  practices
  Comments
• How Does DNS Work?
  networking
  Comments
• Wgpu-rs on the web
  graphics rust
  Comments
• CSS for internationalisation
  css
  Comments
• R v4.0.0 is released
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 98.css: A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
  css design historical
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.43.0
  release rust
  Comments
• Stop apologizing for bugs
  practices
  Comments
• Which is better on Android: divide by 2 or shift by 1?
  android mobile
  Comments
• Donald Knuth: The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories
  historical person
  Comments
• OpenSSH 8.2 Just Works with U2F/FIDO2 Security Keys
  crypto security
  Comments
• Embedded Rust pattern - Zero Sized References
  rust
  Comments
• Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops
  linux
  Comments
• How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020
  performance rust
  Comments
• Prioritizing simplicity improves performance and reliability
  performance practices programming
  Comments
• Tiers of answers to half-baked questions
  math practices
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

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

• Is Cloudflare safe yet?
  satire
  Comments
• Linux with Wayland is now running on iPhone 7
  hardware ios
  Comments
• Unleashed: The Birth (and Death) of an Operating System Fork
  illumos unix
  Comments
• Cap'n Proto 0.8: Streaming flow control, HTTP-over-RPC, fibers, etc
  networking release
  Comments
• How to store data forever
  hardware
  Comments
• $50 ODROID-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic S905X3 SoC with 4GB RAM
  hardware
  Comments
• How to write CRaP Rust code
  rust
  Comments
• Building on solid ground: ensuring reproducible Docker builds for Python
  devops python
  Comments
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)
  linux release
  Comments
• Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
  compsci education philosophy
  Comments
• All ProtonMail apps are now open source, as Android joins the list
  android mobile security
  Comments
• Two months with Powershell on a UNIX
  dotnet unix
  Comments