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

• How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses
  security
  Comments
• Computers as I used to love them
  programming
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• Do Not Follow JavaScript Trends
  javascript
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• The Rust compiler isn't slow; we are
  rust
  Comments
• Empathy Online
  culture
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• Germany’s coronavirus contract tracing app is out today, and is open source
  android ios practices
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• Recent database technology that should be on your radar (part 1)
  databases
  Comments
• A sort-middle architecture for 2D graphics
  graphics
  Comments
• The Mother of All Demos (1968)
  historical
  Comments
• The Next Step for Generics
  go
  Comments
• Operating a Tor Relay
  privacy
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• Practical Python Programming by David Beazley released under Creative Commons
  book python
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Third-party audit of rustls
  crypto rust
  Comments
• Guix Further Reduces Bootstrap Seed to 25%
  lisp osdev security
  Comments
• Dumbindent: When 93% of the Time was Spent in Clang-Format
  c
  Comments
• Text Communication
  philosophy web
  Comments
• A simple task and time manager CLI
  haskell vim
  Comments
• So, tell me about Nix
  practices programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Static Hosting Benchmark 2020
  web
  Comments
• nREPL 0.8: Evolving the Protocol
  clojure
  Comments
• Gambit Scheme: Inside Out (2010)
  pdf lisp
  Comments
• Build yourself a weather station. Part I
  hardware
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• What’s in a name? (2014)
  programming
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 15, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Performance: Avoid SQLite In Your Next Firefox Feature
  databases programming
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• How a File Format Led to a Crossword Scandal
  video games python
  Comments
• Don't write your own framework
  programming
  Comments
• Fast 2D rendering on GPU
  graphics
  Comments
• How Much Does It Cost To Run This Blog?
  web
  Comments
• The Curious Case of Swift's Adoption of Smalltalk Keyword Syntax
  objectivec swift
  Comments
• Zsh and Fish’s simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds
  programming
  Comments
• Bypass kernel lockdown/uefi secure boot on Ubuntu 18.04 using ACPI SSDT injection
  linux security
  Comments
• SELECT code_execution FROM * USING SQLite
  video databases security
  Comments
• Semiconductor Aging Problems At 5nm And Below
  hardware
  Comments
• Transducers From The Ground Up
  clojure programming
  Comments
• Coding a Single Instance Application the wrong way
  debugging windows
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can we talk about client-side certificates?
  programming
  Comments
• my love letter to redo
  programming
  Comments
• SQLite As An Application File Format
  databases programming
  Comments
• History of Programming Languages, Vol 4
  historical plt programming
  Comments
• What is the Gemini Protocol?
  video web
  Comments
• Trying Ansible alternatives in python
  devops
  Comments
• Spark Joy by Running Fewer Tests
  performance programming ruby scaling testing
  Comments
• Static typing, pattern matching, and Inko's self-hosting compiler
  compilers plt programming
  Comments
• Stack Trace Art
  art
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Taxipy – open-source Uber alternative
  java javascript programming
  Comments
• Tools to help you get the best out of your indieweb site
  web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 13, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jepsen - PostgreSQL 12.3
  databases distributed testing
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• Functional Code is Honest Code
  api programming
  Comments
• Async Python is not faster
  performance python
  Comments
• A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
  privacy web
  Comments
• Is Dark Mode Such A Good Idea?
  web
  Comments
• Procedurally generated Chinese landscape painting
  art
  Comments
• Shredder: Garbage Collection as a Library for Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Hamler – Haskell-style functional programming language running on Erlang VM
  erlang haskell
  Comments
• Never forget your password with this Python encryption algorithm
  crypto python
  Comments
• Malware on the blockchain
  cryptocurrencies security
  Comments
• WebCheck: High-confidence browser testing
  testing web
  Comments
• Cassandra counter columns: nice in theory, hazardous in practice
  databases
  Comments

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

• GE Filtergate
  hardware rant reversing
  Comments
• Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty
  design
  Comments
• How Does Mastodon Work?
  web
  Comments
• An introduction to Go for non-Go developers
  go programming
  Comments
• The GUI should be better. A lot better
  video design rant
  Comments
• Snabb: 100 Gbit/s pure software switching using Lua
  lua networking
  Comments
• Why Tacit Knowledge is More Important Than Deliberate Practice
  practices
  Comments
• Using Mnesia in an Elixir Application
  databases elixir
  Comments
• What are Unit Tests For?
  testing
  Comments
• My impression of the PineBook Pro – a $200 ARM powered laptop
  hardware
  Comments
• Merkle trees and build systems
  programming
  Comments
• CSS :is() and :where() are coming to browsers
  css
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Poetics of CLI Command Names
  osdev philosophy practices
  Comments
• What tools made you better programmer
  ask programming
  Comments
• How and why GraphQL will influence the SourceHut alpha
  databases
  Comments
• What's the ideal developer experience in 2020?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Clojure: a mature alternative to Java
  clojure
  Comments
• Iris: a simple mail client for Vim
  email vim
  Comments
• Container technologies at Coinbase: Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack
  devops
  Comments
• Next browser is now Nyxt
  browsers release
  Comments
• New inline assembly syntax available in nightly
  rust
  Comments
• A Beginner's Guide to Amiga E
  programming
  Comments
• Emacs Comment Commands Redux
  emacs
  Comments
• SGAxe: How SGX Fails in Practice
  hardware security
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Most tech content is bullshit
  practices
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• seL4 is verified on RISC-V
  assembly formalmethods hardware osdev
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• zls: A Zig Language Server
  video programming
  Comments
• Playing Around With The Fuchsia Operating System
  osdev
  Comments
• Defects are not the fault of programmers
  practices
  Comments
• Collapse OS — Why Forth?
  osdev
  Comments
• Not everything is UTF-8
  programming
  Comments
• How the most upvoted C question was another question
  c
  Comments
• Is `sudo` almost useless?
  linux security
  Comments
• Haiku R1/beta2 has been released
  osdev release
  Comments
• Why sysadmins don't like changing things, illustrated
  practices
  Comments
• Happy 25th Anniversary to PHP
  historical php
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 9, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The RuboCop Name Drama Redux
  culture ruby
  Comments
• Streaming Lobsters dev on Monday evenings
  event meta
  Comments
• 9front "PLAN9-HATERS" released
  release unix
  Comments
• Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80's
  crypto historical
  Comments
• Deploying This Site with IPFS and Scheme
  devops web
  Comments
• Old Code Gets Younger Every Year
  practices
  Comments
• Centralisation and Mastodon
  web
  Comments
• hyperfine - a command-line benchmarking tool
  performance
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• Peeking under the hood of Command & Conquer
  games historical
  Comments
• choose: A human-friendly and fast alternative to awk and cut
  release rust
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• Obese websites and planet-sized metronomes
  rant web
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• Gerald Jay Sussman & Chris Hanson: Adventures In Advanced Symbolic Programming
  video lisp
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 8, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Email is the Best Discussion Platform
  email
  Comments
• A guide to writing a DNS Server from scratch in Rust
  networking rust
  Comments
• Running Linux on my Macbook
  linux mac
  Comments
• tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf
  programming
  Comments
• I’m a Developer. I Won’t Teach My Kids to Code, and Neither Should You
  education practices
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• SpaceX software team Reddit AMA
  performance practices testing
  Comments
• TFW you find the last cartridge
  historical
  Comments
• What’s In A Font? Researching Website Typography
  design web
  Comments
• The cache replacement problem
  go
  Comments
• MiniCouchDB in Rust
  databases rust
  Comments
• The Curious Case of Small Files
  databases
  Comments
• Installing Arch Linux on the Pinebook Pro
  linux
  Comments