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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 14, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
  c programming
  Comments
• OpenPGP in Rust: the Sequoia project
  crypto rust
  Comments
• The State of SwiftUI
  mac swift
  Comments
• My submissions for r2wars 2020
  assembly games
  Comments
• How does `who` work on Linux?
  linux
  Comments
• Opera Unite tried decentralizing the web ten years ago (2019)
  historical
  Comments
• How to Plan a Luau: Augmenting Lua’s Syntax With Types
  lua plt
  Comments
• The C++ Bestiary
  c++
  Comments
• How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system?
  distributed formalmethods
  Comments
• UMASH: a fast and universal enough hash
  math
  Comments
• What should I do after getting my (first) own new Macbook?
  ask mac practices unix
  Comments
• FPGA based mobile phone: Creating a truly open and trustable mobile communications device (2019)
  video hardware security
  Comments

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

• The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday
  programming unix
  Comments
• EduTech Spyware is Still Spyware: Proctorio Edition
  security
  Comments
• Scaling Erlang Developer Experience at WhatsApp
  pdf slides erlang scaling
  Comments
• Helm development is now stalled
  emacs
  Comments
• Implement BeamAsm - a JIT for Erlang/OTP
  elixir erlang performance
  Comments
• Regarding Semantic Versioning
  api
  Comments
• DNS flag day 2020
  devops event networking
  Comments
• Good Quality DOSBox Video Capture
  design practices
  Comments
• Basics of Compiler Design (2010)
  pdf book compilers
  Comments
• Bazel, Haskell, and Build-System Joy
  haskell
  Comments
• Basic Web Scraping with Emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Vegeta load testing a quick primer with GET examples
  testing
  Comments

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

• Getting MacOS style hotkeys working in GNU/Linux
  linux
  Comments
• Building a better home network
  show networking
  Comments
• From Vim to Ed
  unix vim
  Comments
• No Namespaces in Rust is a Feature
  rust
  Comments
• Ergonomic Haskell 1 - Records
  haskell
  Comments
• Elixir Tip: Case vs. With
  elixir
  Comments
• The Website Obesity Crisis
  web
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• USB Mass Storage and USB-Attached SCSI... are both SCSI
  hardware
  Comments
• Nanos.org
  devops osdev virtualization
  Comments
• What killed Haskell, could kill Rust, too
  haskell rust
  Comments
• Algebra Driven Design
  book haskell
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 11, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Emacs is very special regarding UIs
  emacs
  Comments
• Go Modules have a v2+ Problem
  go
  Comments
• Decision Table Patterns
  practices
  Comments
• Security by Obscurity is Underrated
  security
  Comments
• Writing system software: code comments
  practices programming
  Comments
• Intercepting Zoom's encrypted data with BPF
  crypto linux
  Comments
• Nix × IPFS - Milestone 1
  distributed linux
  Comments
• why was my post removed?
  ask meta
  Comments
• Amiga Fast File System Return to the Linux Kernel
  linux
  Comments
• The Mess We're In (2014)
  video compsci erlang
  Comments
• Evading Censorship from the Server-side
  networking
  Comments
• Peeking inside a Rust enum
  rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Non-POSIX file systems
  historical
  Comments
• My Org Mode Flow
  emacs practices
  Comments
• Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
  hardware historical
  Comments
• How do Routers Work, Really?
  networking
  Comments
• Comments on Comments
  practices programming
  Comments
• Hacking Ethernet out of Fibre Channel cards
  hardware networking
  Comments
• danburzo/percollate: turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB or HTML files from the command line
  show release web
  Comments
• Loko Scheme, an optimizing R6RS Scheme compiler
  lisp
  Comments
• What No Fan Has Seen Before: Remastering Deep Space Nine to Maximum Quality
  ai
  Comments
• The Road to Mutter & GNOME Shell 3.38
  linux
  Comments
• On finally learning to program at the age of 40
  programming
  Comments
• Cryptography Dispatches: NaCl Is Not a High-Level API
  crypto
  Comments

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

• How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
  compilers performance rust
  Comments
• Programming is a losers game
  practices programming
  Comments
• git/serve: A git server for Plan 9
  osdev programming vcs
  Comments
• A brief introduction to SCSI
  hardware
  Comments
• FVWM3
  release unix
  Comments
• Sinkholed (2019)
  networking security web
  Comments
• AVIF has landed
  graphics performance web
  Comments
• DOOM Eternal - Graphics Study
  graphics reversing
  Comments
• The case for comments in code
  practices programming
  Comments
• The Within Go Repo Layout
  go practices
  Comments
• URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web
  web
  Comments
• Dynamic Typing and NaN Boxing
  c compilers programming
  Comments

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

• Quare FreeBSD?
  freebsd linux
  Comments
• My thoughts about editors in 2020
  emacs practices vim
  Comments
• Lessons Learned from SSH Credential Honeypots
  security
  Comments
• Ink by Example
  show plt programming
  Comments
• Vim as an IDE (VimConf 2020 Talk)
  video vim
  Comments
• BitTorrent v2
  networking
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• kmonad 0.4.0 released
  haskell release
  Comments
• Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer (2019)
  education practices
  Comments
• Database of Databases
  databases
  Comments
• .mod Sample Master
  art compsci historical
  Comments
• makesite.py - Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator
  programming python web
  Comments

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

• Libvirt - The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013)
  devops
  Comments
• Elixir Is Not Ruby. Elixir Is Erlang
  elixir erlang programming ruby
  Comments
• Starflight
  games reversing
  Comments
• Hard to discover tips and apps for making macOS pleasant
  mac
  Comments
• Daniel J. Bernstein's IM2000 email proposal is not a good idea
  email
  Comments
• Rust on Haiku: the Case of the Disappearing Deceased Threads
  osdev rust
  Comments
• Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Primitive unary functions
  assembly c compilers lisp
  Comments
• So Many Ways To Start An Xserver
  unix
  Comments
• New safety rules in C++ Core Check
  c++
  Comments
• Test smarter, not harder
  python testing
  Comments
• How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations
  design visualization
  Comments
• Linux kernel security fixes spotted before release with side channel attack on...developer mailing lists
  linux security
  Comments

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

• Teardown of Digital Pregnancy Test
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other
  math
  Comments
• Why GitHub Won't Help You With Hiring
  job practices
  Comments
• C++ vs Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story
  c++ programming rust
  Comments
• Modern C
  programming
  Comments
• Rust testing or verifying: Why not both?
  formalmethods rust
  Comments
• Minimal TOTP Generator in 20 Lines of Python
  show crypto python security
  Comments
• My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem]
  historical security unix
  Comments
• Massacring C Pointers (2018)
  c practices programming
  Comments
• Full-Text Search Battle: PostgreSQL vs Elasticsearch
  databases
  Comments
• Reducing SATA power consumption
  linux
  Comments
• Home Page - Metamath
  math
  Comments

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

• Winamp Skin Museum
  historical
  Comments
• Migrating from Mastodon to Pleroma
  devops
  Comments
• React is becoming a black box (2019)
  javascript
  Comments
• Program development in Limbo
  osdev programming
  Comments
• In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?
  unix
  Comments
• A Requiem for a Dying Operating System
  historical unix
  Comments
• IOMMU Support in Linux
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• If-Else Is a Poor Man’s Polymorphism
  practices programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Preserving data integrity: A ZFS-inspired storage system
  linux
  Comments
• Flowing Text Around Images
  css
  Comments
• Image Viewers on CP/M
  historical
  Comments