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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 9, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Half of the websites using WebAssembly use it for malicious purposes
  security wasm
  Comments
• It is perfectly OK to only code at work, you can have a life too
  practices
  Comments
• Fighting Packet Loss with Curl
  networking
  Comments
• Hiding phone numbers on Signal's desktop app
  javascript privacy
  Comments
• A Very Unlikely Chess Game
  ai cogsci
  Comments
• Bookmarklets to deal with annoying designs
  a11y design web
  Comments
• Dreaming of a Data Checked Language
  plt
  Comments
• Weird Keyboards, Programmable Keyboards
  hardware
  Comments
• IBM Stops Work On Server-Side Swift
  swift
  Comments
• My Firefox addons as of Firefox '74' (the current development version)
  browsers
  Comments
• The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete
  browsers rant web
  Comments
• How to animate SVG signature
  web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 8, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Translating Quake 3 into Rust
  games rust
  Comments
• SHA-1 is a Shambles
  security
  Comments
• How to create a handheld Linux terminal (v2)
  hardware
  Comments
• Hobby x86 kernel written with Zig
  osdev release
  Comments
• Webserver Benchmark: Erlang vs Go vs Java vs NodeJS
  erlang go java nodejs performance
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• RFC 8700 - Fifty Years of RFCs
  historical
  Comments
• Internet Explorer 5 for Mac: twentieth anniversary
  browsers historical mac
  Comments
• The Genuine Sieve of Eratosthenes
  pdf compsci
  Comments
• ClickHouse Cost-Efficiency in Action: Analyzing 500 Billion Rows on an Intel NUC
  databases performance
  Comments
• Ronco Spray-On Usability (2004)
  design practices
  Comments
• We should have an email for each website
  email privacy
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 7, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Response to Hello World
  go performance programming
  Comments
• This Is Why You Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition
  law
  Comments
• PaperWM: tiled window management for GNOME
  unix
  Comments
• Moonpig, a billing system that doesn't suck (2013)
  perl programming testing
  Comments
• Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been
  culture web
  Comments
• I have been working on compatibility
  show a11y browsers css web
  Comments
• Living in the Age of Software Fuckery
  culture design practices
  Comments
• Whatever Happened To news.gmane.org?
  culture
  Comments
• Ravi Programming Language
  programming
  Comments
• How Blazor Is Going to Change Web Development
  dotnet programming wasm web
  Comments
• Actix Web: Optimization Amongst Optimizations
  performance rust web
  Comments
• Let the Compiler Do the Work
  performance rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 6, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Distributing Software in a Post-Google Safe Browsing World
  practices security windows
  Comments
• Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practice
  practices
  Comments
• OpenBSD on DigitalOcean
  openbsd
  Comments
• Japanese Grammar in EBNF notation
  programming
  Comments
• How to Protect Strained, Sore Developer Eyes
  culture
  Comments
• Building a BitTorrent client from the ground up in Go
  distributed go networking
  Comments
• My Love Letter To Computer Science Is Very Short And I Also Forgot To Mail It
  video programming
  Comments
• Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection
  c practices scaling
  Comments
• Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS?
  osdev programming
  Comments
• Running Racket on iOS
  ios lisp
  Comments
• How to Reduce Developer Back Pain and Tightness
  culture
  Comments
• A Few Emacs Tricks
  emacs
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 5, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hello world
  performance programming
  Comments
• V is for Vvork in Progress
  practices programming
  Comments
• Native Applications with Racket
  lisp mac swift
  Comments
• Oracle copied Amazon’s API - was that copyright infringement?
  api law
  Comments
• “Use Dumb Shell, don’t Reinvent the Wheel”
  rant
  Comments
• Abbott Labs kills free tool that lets you own the blood-sugar data from your glucose monitor, saying it violates copyright law
  law
  Comments
• [What's What] in the World of TeX
  programming
  Comments
• Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous
  api performance
  Comments
• RISC-V Stumbling Blocks
  assembly
  Comments
• Commentary on the Sixth Edition UNIX Operating System
  historical unix
  Comments
• Mutexes Are Faster Than Spinlocks
  performance
  Comments
• Lean versus Coq: The cultural chasm
  compilers formalmethods math programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 4, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• ESP8266 - 1+ Year 18650 battery lifetime
  hardware
  Comments
• Vim9
  vim
  Comments
• Why I'm focusing only on some programming languages
  programming
  Comments
• On Privacy versus Freedom
  privacy
  Comments
• Anybody who writes #pragma pack(1) may as well just wear a sign on their forehead that says "I hate RISC"
  c
  Comments
• Don't bet on an expected value
  finance math
  Comments
• How I once saved half a million dollars with a single character code change
  java performance
  Comments
• What tools do you use to maintain a personal log/journal ?
  ask practices
  Comments
• The Simple Haskell Initiative
  haskell
  Comments
• Scripting tmux
  linux
  Comments
• Make Vim Python plugin 10x faster using Rust
  performance python rust vim
  Comments
• Terrain rendering algorithm in less than 20 lines of code
  games programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 3, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Good times create weak men
  performance practices
  Comments
• The polygons of Another World
  games graphics programming
  Comments
• A bug in my ThinkPad's display?
  hardware
  Comments
• Putting Devs Before Users: How Frameworks Destroyed Web Performance
  web
  Comments
• Python 2 Series to be Retired by April 2020
  practices python
  Comments
• EICAR test QR
  security
  Comments
• Why I’m still using jQuery in 2019
  javascript web
  Comments
• The man who made Wolfenstein
  culture games historical person
  Comments
• Making really tiny WebAssembly graphics demos
  art rust wasm
  Comments
• Home printer recommendations for free operating systems?
  ask hardware
  Comments
• Systemd Is Approaching 1.3 Million Lines
  systemd
  Comments
• Things we (finally) know about network queues (2017)
  networking
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 2, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm not feeling the async pressure
  networking python
  Comments
• Cutting the Wire
  privacy
  Comments
• Rewriting m4vgalib in Rust
  c++ rust
  Comments
• Re: The Ecosystem is Moving
  privacy
  Comments
• Advent of Code 2019 in Zsh
  programming
  Comments
• If you care about user privacy, do NOT use Facebook JS SDK
  javascript privacy
  Comments
• Circumventing the JVM's bytecode verifier
  java
  Comments
• Godot Engine - A decade in retrospective and future
  games
  Comments
• Developer Tropes: "Google does it"
  culture
  Comments
• Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system
  distributed
  Comments
• Atypical: A Differently-Optimized Type System
  plt
  Comments
• Migrating my blog from Gatsby to a static site with Cryogen and AsciiDoctor
  web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 1, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Defunctionalization: Everybody Does It, Nobody Talks About It
  plt
  Comments
• A few comments on ‘age’
  crypto
  Comments
• lilith an OS made in Crystal
  osdev
  Comments
• Pi-hole: A black hole for internet advertisements
  privacy
  Comments
• Font inspired by paintings of Escher
  art design
  Comments
• Three books I enjoyed reading in 2019
  book
  Comments
• Measuring Mutexes, Spinlocks and how Bad the Linux Scheduler Really is
  c linux performance
  Comments
• Rewtro: play tiny videogames encoded in origami cartridges
  art games
  Comments
• SerenityOS was hacked in a 36c3 CTF! (Exploit and write-up)
  osdev security
  Comments
• mvdan/sh: POSIX shell in Go
  go
  Comments
• Wikipedia removing support for old Android smartphones and "Web Security" software
  browsers mobile
  Comments
• Managing my dotfiles as a git repository
  vcs
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• (Blind) software development 450 words per minute
  a11y
  Comments
• Magic-Wormhole: Get Things From One Computer To Another, Safely
  networking python
  Comments
• API Practices If You Hate Your Customers
  api satire
  Comments
• A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations
  video openbsd security
  Comments
• The Joys of UNIX Keyboards
  hardware unix
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Distributed systems learnings in 2019
  distributed practices
  Comments
• (Very) Basic Shamir's Secret Sharing
  crypto
  Comments
• Color Conundrum: Syntax highlighting done right
  design
  Comments
• Write a jigsaw puzzle generator in Elm
  show elm
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering Carrot Crazy - Part 1 - Passwords
  games reversing
  Comments
• DragonBox Pyra prototypes begin shipping (open source handheld gaming computer)
  hardware
  Comments