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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 1, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Banning TikTok
  privacy
  Comments
• The lone developer problem
  practices
  Comments
• "Clean" Code, Horrible Performance
  performance practices
  Comments
• First steps in CHERIoT Security Research
  hardware osdev security
  Comments
• Using HDMI radio interference for high-speed data transfer
  hardware
  Comments
• Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials
  nix
  Comments
• Linker notes on Power ISA
  compilers
  Comments
• The Most Useful Command Line Tools
  linux
  Comments
• Teaching Implication Better
  compsci education formalmethods
  Comments
• A better alternative to snapshot testing
  devops practices testing
  Comments
• The E-Ink Badge: The Coolest Badge You Didn't Know You Needed
  hardware python
  Comments
• A Compendium of Access Control on Unix-Like OSes
  unix
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 28, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Introducing the Determinate Nix Installer
  nix
  Comments
• Zig's Curious Multi-Sequence For Loops
  zig
  Comments
• Do you use a dead man's switch?
  ask security
  Comments
• Nothing in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• The cursed universes of Dana Sibera
  culture design historical
  Comments
• pcre2 support zig build
  zig
  Comments
• Recreating ANSI Art from a screenshot
  art javascript
  Comments
• Rental bike usage patterns
  visualization
  Comments
• Vanity RSA public key
  security
  Comments
• hotscript: Type-level madness
  javascript
  Comments
• Stdout Buffering (2016)
  c debugging linux performance
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 27, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Helix Notes
  programming vim
  Comments
• Using GoatCounter for blog analytics
  web
  Comments
• Telemetry and Trust
  go privacy rant
  Comments
• GOTOphobia considered harmful (in C)
  c
  Comments
• Bizarre and Unusual Uses of DNS
  video networking security
  Comments
• Why 111-1111111 is a valid Windows 95 key
  video reversing security
  Comments
• How to implement dependent types in 80 lines of code
  plt
  Comments
• ROFL with a LOL: rewriting an NGINX module in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• A Performance Analysis of Javascript’s Array.prototype.filter
  javascript performance
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering a Windows 95 Game: Asset Storage
  reversing
  Comments
• X.520: What’s in a name? (2022)
  programming
  Comments
• Building a Minimalistic Virtual Machine
  compilers
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 26, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Haskell Playground is live at play.haskell.org
  haskell release
  Comments
• rtx: Runtime Executor (asdf rust clone)
  show programming
  Comments
• A branchless segment of code to generate a printable hexadecimal value
  assembly
  Comments
• Making Go telemetry opt-in is a mistake
  go
  Comments
• research!rsc: Opting In to Transparent Telemetry
  go privacy
  Comments
• Go bindings for GNU Recutils
  databases go
  Comments
• Dave's Forth Talk 2023
  culture programming
  Comments
• 87% of Container Images in Production Have Critical or High-Severity Vulnerabilities
  devops security
  Comments
• It’s a smol_world: thoughts and lessons
  programming
  Comments
• go test and parallelism
  go testing
  Comments
• Tic Tac Toe implementation over network
  show go programming
  Comments
• Hungarian Notation (1999)
  c practices
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 25, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tomorrow Corporation Tech Demo
  video debugging
  Comments
• The Elephant in the Room - It's time to get the POSIX elephant off our necks
  unix
  Comments
• A breakdown of the triple-star pointer
  c
  Comments
• Programming Is Easier Than You Think
  education programming
  Comments
• Let It Fail
  practices
  Comments
• A Brief Comparison of 10+ Best Google Analytics Alternatives
  web
  Comments
• The End of Localhost All the Cloud's A Staging Env, and All the Laptops Merely Clients
  devops
  Comments
• Pretty Rust backtraces in raw terminal mode
  programming rust
  Comments
• Blogging about Midori (2015)
  osdev
  Comments
• What is the Best Book to Learn Go in 2023?
  go
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Rust Coreutils: Fixing Low-Hanging Performance Fruit
  performance rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 24, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• React Is Holding Me Hostage
  web
  Comments
• Squeezing a Sokoban game into 10 lines of code
  games haskell
  Comments
• Safari 16.4 Is An Admission
  browsers
  Comments
• Makefile > websh*tconfig.json.js
  rant web
  Comments
• Why SAT Is Hard
  compsci
  Comments
• psql tips
  databases
  Comments
• Smoking Hot Binary Search In Zig
  d zig
  Comments
• Alpine Suck: Lightweight Desktop installer for Alpine Linux based on the suckless philosophy
  linux
  Comments
• Faux Progress
  web
  Comments
• Andrew Kelley - Practical DOD
  video performance zig
  Comments
• Cedar: A new policy language
  plt security
  Comments
• The Usability of Advanced Type Systems: Rust as a Case Study
  plt rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 22, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• We stand to save $7m over five years from our cloud exit
  hardware web
  Comments
• The Philosophy of Computer Science
  compsci philosophy
  Comments
• How I organize my digital music collection
  databases practices
  Comments
• What's next for modern infrastructure?
  devops scaling
  Comments
• Numen Voice Control
  a11y go linux
  Comments
• How NetNewsWire Handles Threading
  mac
  Comments
• Why You Don't Trust Your Linter
  video elm
  Comments
• Formalising the EVM in Dafny
  formalmethods programming
  Comments
• Are You Sure You Want to Use MMAP in Your Database Management System?
  pdf databases osdev
  Comments
• io_uring and networking in 2023
  linux networking performance
  Comments
• Shipping Logs
  devops
  Comments
• Interview and AMA with Louis Pilfold - Creator of Gleam
  video programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 21, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Queues should be empty
  practices
  Comments
• Advice you might as well take
  practices
  Comments
• In praise of Alpine and apk
  linux
  Comments
• Dusting off Dreamcast Linux
  linux
  Comments
• Killer libraries?
  ask programming
  Comments
• A Lambda Calculus With Coroutines and Heapless, Directly-Called Closures
  compilers plt
  Comments
• what is the randomart image for?
  art security
  Comments
• Dropbear SSH: a self-contained client/server for embedded systems
  cryptography
  Comments
• Fedora packages versus upstream Flatpaks
  linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• NP-Complete isn't (always) Hard
  compsci programming
  Comments
• Crypto Ancienne 2.0 now brings TLS 1.3 to the Internet of Old Things (except BeOS) (2022)
  c security
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 20, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• "BGP at home": getting a DIA circuit installed at home
  networking
  Comments
• I just learned: Docker edits firewall rules for you
  networking programming security
  Comments
• Few lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C
  c
  Comments
• sips: Scriptable image processing system
  graphics mac
  Comments
• Optimizing optimizing: some insights that led to a 400% speedup of PowerDNS (2016)
  performance
  Comments
• What Austral Proves
  compilers plt programming
  Comments
• How I give formal written feedback
  practices
  Comments
• Multi-Object For Loops + Struct-Of-Arrays
  zig
  Comments
• Privilege drop, privilege separation, and restricted-service operating mode in OpenBSD
  c openbsd security
  Comments
• Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI
  ai
  Comments
• My favourite 3 lines of CSS
  css
  Comments
• Computer Museum uses GreaseWeazle to help exonerate Maryland Man
  hardware law
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 19, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I learned 7 different programming languages so you don't have to
  plt
  Comments
• This is not a Drill, this is just Tuesday
  practices security
  Comments
• FOSS communities: You don’t need to yell
  culture
  Comments
• C-rusted: The Advantages of Rust, in C, without the Disadvantages
  c plt
  Comments
• Zig Bits 0x1 - Returning slices from functions
  programming zig
  Comments
• Python’s multiprocessing performance problem
  performance python
  Comments
• zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation
  cryptography security web
  Comments
• What utilities should be a standard part of a distro and why?
  unix
  Comments
• John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++
  c++ programming
  Comments
• PC Face: Bitmap arrays for rendering CP437 glyphs using IBM PC OEM fonts
  show graphics
  Comments
• Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks
  databases practices
  Comments
• Beautiful Binary Search in D
  d performance
  Comments