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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 30, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• An update on rust/coreutils
  linux rust
  Comments
• Lightning fast and self contained: How to build a Web App with Gin and SQLite
  api go programming
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• Reasons for servers to support IPv6
  networking
  Comments
• Can I have a smaller Prometheus
  go
  Comments
• A Base64 Surprise
  cryptography programming
  Comments
• volatile means it really happens
  c++
  Comments
• Rust extension traits, greppability and IDEs
  rust
  Comments
• Handling argc==0 in the kernel
  linux unix
  Comments
• TeXMe Demo: Self-Rendering Markdown + MathJax Document
  show javascript math
  Comments
• Deriving the Reddit Formula (2015)
  math
  Comments
• Bill Gates’ Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC
  historical reversing
  Comments
• Release 22.1.0 · psf/black
  performance python release
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 29, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Making the web better. With blocks
  api web
  Comments
• Writing an open source GPU driver – without the hardware
  graphics linux
  Comments
• In defense of NIR
  compilers graphics linux
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• Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix
  historical unix
  Comments
• Less-than-linear Fibonacci
  compsci
  Comments
• There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code
  practices
  Comments
• Ada/SPARK Crate of the Year 2021 Winners
  programming
  Comments
• Rhai – Embedded Scripting for Rust
  rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
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• Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (2012)
  compilers
  Comments
• Xcode Through the Years
  mac
  Comments
• Blending Containers and Virtual Machines: A Study of Firecracker and gVisor
  pdf virtualization
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 28, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How I hacked a hardware crypto wallet and recovered $2 million
  video hardware reversing security
  Comments
• The Controversy Surrounding Hybrid Cryptography
  cryptography
  Comments
• Searching for Susy Thunder
  historical person
  Comments
• Lightweight Linting with Tree-sitter
  compilers rust
  Comments
• Two reasons Kubernetes is so complex
  devops
  Comments
• Big Time Public License 2.0.0
  law release
  Comments
• Hidden Secrets to Making a New Microservices Cluster a Success
  devops satire
  Comments
• JSON Meta Application Protocol
  email
  Comments
• Cubical 1lab: A formalised, cross-linked reference resource for mathematics done in HoTT
  math plt
  Comments
• LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds
  hardware practices
  Comments
• ichiban/prolog - The only reasonable scripting engine for Go
  programming
  Comments
• Release of Rancher Desktop (desktop Kubernetes) 1.0.0
  release
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 27, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• argv silliness (polkit bug noticed in 2013)
  security
  Comments
• pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
  security
  Comments
• Prefer to change the code rather than write a workaround
  practices
  Comments
• LunarML: A Standard ML compiler that produces Lua
  ml
  Comments
• I found an unpatched Xerox vulnerability that lets anyone remotely brick networked printers
  security
  Comments
• PureNix: transpile PureScript code to Nix
  haskell nix
  Comments
• Infix Operators in Python (2012)
  python
  Comments
• A Minimum Viable Computer, or Linux for $15
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Micro C: A compiler for a small subset of C to LLVM in Haskell
  c compilers haskell
  Comments
• Lock-Free Locks Revisited
  c++ compsci
  Comments
• Run Ordinary Rails Apps Globally
  ruby scaling
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• Erlang/OTP profiling: eprof vs. AdventOfCode
  debugging erlang
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 26, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• In defense of complicated programming languages
  programming
  Comments
• Gemini Is A Little Gem
  networking
  Comments
• systemd by example - The Playground
  linux systemd
  Comments
• Highlights from Git 2.35
  release vcs
  Comments
• European Commission's Open Source Programme Office starts bug bounties
  security
  Comments
• thalo event sourcing framework
  rust
  Comments
• Deno in 2021
  javascript
  Comments
• PRQL — a simpler and more powerful SQL
  databases
  Comments
• Introducing Parser Builders
  swift
  Comments
• The fastest way to read a CSV in Pandas
  performance python
  Comments
• Doug McIlroy & Brian Kernighan (Nerd Talk)
  video unix
  Comments
• The Twelve-Factor App (2017)
  web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 25, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Curse of NixOS
  nix
  Comments
• the FSF’s relationship with firmware is harmful to free software users
  hardware law rant
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• Why we're migrating (many of) our servers from Linux to FreeBSD
  freebsd
  Comments
• Rain's Rust CLI recommendations
  rust
  Comments
• How I Got Pwned by My Cloud Costs
  devops
  Comments
• Modern Bash Scripting
  unix
  Comments
• Bash Guide
  practices programming unix
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• const all the things?
  c++
  Comments
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of JPEG: A Signal Processing Approach
  video compsci
  Comments
• Destroy All Values: Designing Deinitialization in Programming Languages
  plt
  Comments
• GORILLA.BAS: How to Play the Secret MS-DOS Game From Your Childhood
  games historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 24, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Static Languages Suffer From Complexity
  plt
  Comments
• This Post Was Written by GitHub Copilot
  ai vcs
  Comments
• Strict Python function parameters
  python
  Comments
• Brief thoughts on right to repair issues people don't think about
  hardware
  Comments
• Bell Labs Org Chart
  historical
  Comments
• Rust for Embedded C Programmers
  c rust
  Comments
• Asimov, programming and the meta ladder
  ai programming
  Comments
• LLisp: Lisp in Lisp
  lisp
  Comments
• Guiding Design Principles for Scientific Python Coding
  practices python
  Comments
• Bare Metal C++ Register Access API
  c++ hardware
  Comments
• The Number Guessing Game Written in YAML as LISP Interpreted with Python
  lisp python
  Comments
• Bootloader basics
  assembly osdev
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 23, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• MIT for Noncommercial is Broken
  law
  Comments
• Wordle With Grep
  unix
  Comments
• My Elm Experience
  elixir elm
  Comments
• #[you_can::turn_off_the_borrow_checker]
  rust
  Comments
• Linux on a 486SX
  linux
  Comments
• An Elixir implementation of the CONREC algorithm for topographic or isochrone maps
  elixir
  Comments
• PHP: Frankenstein arrays
  php
  Comments
• Improving end to end tests reliability
  testing
  Comments
• Unpacking LZRW-Compressed Game Assets from Resource Forks
  c mac reversing
  Comments
• Instagram: How not to do messaging
  rant
  Comments
• ldd arbitrary code execution
  linux security
  Comments
• Drawing Mushrooms with Vulkan
  art graphics
  Comments

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

• New edition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, it is a JS version
  book programming
  Comments
• Roblox Return to Service 10/28-10/31 2021
  devops
  Comments
• Formal modeling as a design tool
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Another Myth Busted
  historical
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Crystal installs OpenBSD on the Pinephone
  hardware openbsd
  Comments
• How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development
  c compilers osdev
  Comments
• SmoothWAN: Easily bond internet connections for home networks with Speedify
  networking
  Comments
• Terminal basics
  linux
  Comments
• DynamoDB's Best Feature: Predictability
  performance programming
  Comments
• The best free, open-source supply-chain security tool? The lockfile
  security
  Comments
• LLDB FreeBSD live kernel debugging support
  debugging freebsd
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 21, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The case for a modern language (part 1)
  c rust zig
  Comments
• Wine on Windows 10. It works (2019)
  unix windows
  Comments
• Morello [Arm CHERI prototype] hits major milestone with hardware now available for testing
  hardware security
  Comments
• webassembly: the new kubernetes?
  wasm
  Comments
• Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI)
  hardware
  Comments
• Are We Really Engineers?
  practices
  Comments
• SHA2017 Badge solar usage monitor
  hardware
  Comments
• A small, quick-starting, native Clojure interpreter
  clojure
  Comments
• Curl: JSON support
  release web
  Comments
• Security advisory for the standard library (CVE-2022-21658)
  rust security
  Comments
• Linux kernel heap buffer overflow in fs_context.c since version 5.1
  linux security
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering 101
  education reversing
  Comments