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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
  Comments
• 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
  Comments
• 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
  Comments
• 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
  Comments
• 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

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rewriting the heart of our sync engine
  rust
  Comments
• The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
  databases performance python
  Comments
• How GitHub blocked me (and all my libraries)
  javascript person vcs
  Comments
• Home network recommendations?
  ask networking
  Comments
• Looking inside a vintage Soviet TTL logic integrated circuit
  hardware
  Comments
• Popular iPhone and iPad Apps Snooping on the Pasteboard
  ios security
  Comments
• Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux is deprecated(2018)
  linux networking
  Comments
• The case of the missing WAV audio files on the FAT32 SD Card
  reversing
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Human Programming Interface: python interface to my life
  api practices python
  Comments
• NsCDE: Not So Common Desktop Environment
  unix
  Comments
• Scripting in rust with self-interpreting source code
  rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• npm is joining GitHub
  javascript
  Comments
• How I Start: Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Free fonts
  design
  Comments
• FreeBSD to Sponsor Work for 802.11ac Support
  freebsd networking
  Comments
• Text processing in the shell
  unix
  Comments
• What is fsck up to now?
  unix
  Comments
• March Update: Manjaro on Pinebook Pro & PinePhone Software
  hardware linux mobile
  Comments
• Comparison of k and k-like Implementations
  apl
  Comments
• Rolling your own encryption
  crypto python
  Comments
• Getting started with shaders: signed distance functions
  graphics
  Comments
• The Blit - The first Unix graphical multi-programming terminal
  video historical unix
  Comments
• A simple JVM implementation in Lua
  java lua
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The most surprising Unix programs
  unix
  Comments
• Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale
  practices
  Comments
• The Evolution of VCS Internals Part 2 - Perforce, BitKeeper, Darcs, Monotone, Bazaar, Fossil
  vcs
  Comments
• Dependent Types in Typescript
  plt programming
  Comments
• krabs: An x86 bootloader written in Rust
  osdev rust
  Comments
• R: base plotting without the wrappers
  graphics programming
  Comments
• Out of the Box Dynamic Dispatch
  rust
  Comments
• Modern CMake
  programming
  Comments
• Get unstuck on your infrastructure choices
  devops
  Comments
• Optimizations That Aren't, Or Are They?
  c++ rust
  Comments
• A Study of SSD Reliability in Large Scale Enterprise Storage Deployments
  hardware
  Comments
• Low-Level Liquid Types
  pdf plt
  Comments