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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 12, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Don’t Feed the Thought Leaders
  practices
  Comments
• Privilege escalation with polkit: How to get root on Linux with a seven-year-old bug
  linux security
  Comments
• Fitting a FORTH in 512 bytes
  plt
  Comments
• Why Gemini is not my favorite internet protocol
  rant web
  Comments
• How Microsoft Lost the API War (2004)
  api historical practices windows
  Comments
• epoll(2) implemented in kqueue(2)
  c linux
  Comments
• Debugging a flaky Go test with Mozilla rr
  debugging go
  Comments
• ALiEn - Explore the world of artificial life
  ai games
  Comments
• How to move a 400-person hackathon online
  event haskell
  Comments
• Increasing the density of the home lab with FreeBSD Jails
  freebsd
  Comments
• Memoize Commands or Bash Functions with Coprocs
  linux programming unix
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Float Exposed
  math programming
  Comments
• Rocket Web Framework v0.5 Release Candidate
  rust
  Comments
• The most useful math formulas
  graphics math programming
  Comments
• Graphs
  math
  Comments
• Obfuscating "Hello world!"
  python
  Comments
• FP vs. OO
  programming
  Comments
• Notes on the HotOS Unix Shell Panel
  event programming unix
  Comments
• The memory models that underlie programming languages
  c databases fortran lisp unix
  Comments
• Good and Bad Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• PicoVGA - VGA/TV display on Raspberry Pico
  graphics hardware
  Comments
• RISC-V Adventures II: hex0
  assembly
  Comments
• kcgi: securing CGI web applications (2015)
  pdf c security web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 10, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Always be quitting
  philosophy practices
  Comments
• Your `~/.bashrc` doesn't have to be a mess
  unix
  Comments
• Glue: the Dark Matter of Software
  compsci
  Comments
• Mypy 0.900 Released
  plt python release
  Comments
• myawk: shell/AWK/Perl-like scripting in OCaml
  ml programming unix
  Comments
• Rust vs. Go: Why They’re Better Together
  go plt rust
  Comments
• ALPACA Attack
  crypto security
  Comments
• I wrote a linker everyone can understand
  assembly
  Comments
• Don’t stall your burnout recovery
  philosophy practices
  Comments
• All "Tag Suggestions" with more than 20 votes
  meta
  Comments
• M2 release of Unison - FP language with content-addressable code
  programming
  Comments
• The Plan for React 18
  javascript
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 9, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My Homelab Build
  devops linux
  Comments
• The shortest domain name possible? http://pn/
  networking web
  Comments
• Althttpd: The Althttpd Webserver
  c web
  Comments
• Kalyn: a self-hosting compiler for x86-64
  compilers haskell lisp plt
  Comments
• Vim Kōans
  education
  Comments
• A simple thing
  unix
  Comments
• GPT-3 Scared You? Meet Wu Dao 2.0: A Monster of 1.75 Trillion Parameters
  ai
  Comments
• FoundationDB: A Distributed Unbundled Transactional Key-Value Store
  pdf databases
  Comments
• My programming setup
  programming
  Comments
• Finding Closure in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Monterey? BTDT. Try Project Monterey
  historical osdev
  Comments
• Reasons why bugs might feel "impossible"
  debugging practices
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 8, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It’s time to ditch Chrome
  browsers
  Comments
• Clever vs Insightful Code
  programming
  Comments
• The pedantic checklist for changing your data model in a web application
  databases practices
  Comments
• What makes rust enums so great
  rust
  Comments
• Entity Component System architectures (and why you should care)
  games programming
  Comments
• Paul Marshall's speech to University of Law [on Horizon IT scandal]
  a11y law
  Comments
• GUIDs Are Not The Only Answer
  programming
  Comments
• Scaling Memcache at Facebook
  scaling
  Comments
• Don't miss the FreeBSD Developer Summit June 9-11 2021
  event freebsd
  Comments
• Jailbroken iOS can’t run macOS apps. I spent a week to find out why
  ios mac
  Comments
• Three Myths About Floating-Point Numbers
  c++
  Comments
• JavaScript: Fixing Coercion, Not The Symptoms
  javascript plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 7, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How does a USB keyboard work?
  video hardware
  Comments
• The repeated deaths of OOP
  programming
  Comments
• actually, BSD kqueue is a mountain of technical debt
  freebsd linux
  Comments
• FreeBSD from a NetBSD user’s perspective
  freebsd netbsd osdev unix
  Comments
• Introducing NativeShell for Flutter (Simple Rust FFI & platform native UI)
  release rust
  Comments
• Dolphin MEGA Progress Report: April and May 2021
  programming
  Comments
• A new future for icanhazip
  historical scaling
  Comments
• Half a year of the Liquid Tensor Experiment: Amazing developments
  formalmethods math
  Comments
• Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise
  hardware
  Comments
• Docker is a compiler
  devops
  Comments
• RISC vs. CISC Is the Wrong Lens for Comparing Modern x86, ARM CPUs
  assembly
  Comments
• Stateright: A model checker for implementing distributed systems
  formalmethods rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 6, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Nice nginx features for developers
  devops
  Comments
• POKEGB: a gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon blue
  games programming reversing
  Comments
• Using a text editor to handcraft an ebook
  debugging
  Comments
• Make your lookup table do more
  programming
  Comments
• Password Managers
  security
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Compute shader 101
  video graphics
  Comments
• Laptop review: ThinkPad X1 Extreme (Gen 2)
  hardware
  Comments
• If Not Overturned, a Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many Americans to Lose Internet Access
  law
  Comments
• Analyzing CoreDNS logs with Clickhouse and Vector
  devops
  Comments
• Programming Obesity: A Code Health Epidemic
  video apl compilers performance programming
  Comments
• Tails, A Fast C++ Forth Core
  show plt programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 5, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• An Unbelievable Demo
  historical
  Comments
• Brilliant Jerks in Engineering
  practices
  Comments
• The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software (2018)
  practices programming
  Comments
• On fires
  vcs
  Comments
• My Magical Adventure With cloud-init
  devops linux
  Comments
• Fuzzing is Beta Ready
  go security testing
  Comments
• Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains its Complexity & Origins
  video games
  Comments
• Automatic Rust verification tools (2021)
  formalmethods rust
  Comments
• SQLite Data Starter Packs- data sets packaged in SQLite DBs for practice use
  databases
  Comments
• Why Uninstall Ruby?
  ask mac ruby
  Comments
• Zig 0.8.0 Release Notes
  release zig
  Comments
• .NET Open Source: What Happens When the Free Lunch Ends?
  culture dotnet
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 4, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery
  debugging osdev
  Comments
• 2021 - The Year Windows Became a First Class Python Development Environment
  python windows
  Comments
• Design issues in LLVM IR
  compilers
  Comments
• Conditional HTTP GET: The fastest requests need no response body
  performance web
  Comments
• The Problem with CPUs and Kubernetes
  devops javascript
  Comments
• NetBSD on the Vortex86DX CPU
  hardware netbsd
  Comments
• Going beyond Ada 2022
  plt
  Comments
• From Competitive Programming to APL
  audio transcript apl programming
  Comments
• 1990: LambdaMOO
  historical
  Comments
• TIL How RetroForth Implements Deferred Behavior
  plt
  Comments
• GF likes texts. I'm not a good texter. "App for that?" Nope. My first app story
  android mobile
  Comments
• Emacs DWIM: do what *I* mean
  emacs
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 3, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• NixOS 21.05 released
  linux release
  Comments
• Request: please don't delete comments that get people banned
  meta
  Comments
• Please don't count outages (or SEVs, or whatever)
  practices
  Comments
• Unix Shell Programming: The Next 50 Years
  pdf devops
  Comments
• A Firehose of Rust, for busy people who know some C++
  video c++ rust
  Comments
• Cores that don't count
  pdf hardware
  Comments
• Taking inspiration From APL in LispE
  apl c++ lisp
  Comments
• Transitioning the .CY ccTLD to DNSSEC
  security
  Comments
• How to delete a lot of data, pt. II
  databases
  Comments
• On the Feasibility of Secure Traceability in End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
  crypto security
  Comments
• Practical Reed-Solomon for Programmers
  programming
  Comments
• pencil and paper thinking
  philosophy
  Comments