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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Your Makefiles are wrong
  practices
  Comments
• Don't use booleans
  programming
  Comments
• The sad state of personal data and infrastructure
  practices programming rant
  Comments
• No real numbers
  programming
  Comments
• What are you working on this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• DNS hosting
  ask networking
  Comments
• Every IPv6 address now has a name
  devops networking
  Comments
• How randomly skipping tests made them better
  testing
  Comments
• Play AI Dungeon 2. Become a dragon. Eat the moon
  ai games
  Comments
• Navy Reverting DDGs Back to Physical Throttles, After Fleet Rejects Touchscreen Controls
  hardware
  Comments
• Negative Latency
  ai
  Comments
• From zero to main(): Bare Metal Rust
  c hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• IPv6 Adoption Breaks 30%
  networking
  Comments
• #include
  c security
  Comments
• .ORG Update
  web
  Comments
• Stop worrying about blocking: the new async-std runtime, inspired by Go
  release rust
  Comments
• What if personal computers were a mistake, actually?
  hardware philosophy
  Comments
• The Essential Guide To Electronics in Shenzhen
  pdf hardware
  Comments
• Calm Technology
  practices
  Comments
• I'm building a profiler for my OS! (and making videos of the process)
  video c++ osdev performance
  Comments
• Nushell - The Cross Platform Shell
  rust
  Comments
• What makes Python a great language?
  python
  Comments
• KillingSpark/rustysd - systemd reimplementation in rust
  rust systemd
  Comments
• v0.5 of Gleam, a statically typed language for the Erlang VM, is out
  erlang plt release
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• C, what the fuck??
  c
  Comments
• The odd story of how Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound
  art historical windows
  Comments
• USB Polling Rate Adventure
  hardware programming
  Comments
• Coping with flexbox
  css
  Comments
• Why Dependent Haskell is the Future of Software Development
  haskell
  Comments
• Olin Improvements
  wasm
  Comments
• Delta chat
  crypto email privacy security
  Comments
• Wireguard OpenBSD Router
  openbsd privacy
  Comments
• A rapid admin generator for Elixir & Phoenix
  elixir web
  Comments
• Convert file I/O into pipe I/O with /dev/fd
  unix
  Comments
• Clojure by Example
  clojure
  Comments
• Challenging projects every programmer should try
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 15, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• reMarkable: the perfect tablet for academics
  math reversing
  Comments
• Poetry 1.0: Python dependency management and packaging made easy
  python release
  Comments
• Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers From Their Services
  browsers web
  Comments
• How Unix Works: Become a Better Software Engineer
  programming unix
  Comments
• A/B Street: Traffic simulation game written in Rust
  games rust
  Comments
• Pony 0.33.1
  release
  Comments
• A function to sleep a 1000 years: explained
  c
  Comments
• The ARM SoC landscape from OS dev perspective
  osdev
  Comments
• Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it
  web
  Comments
• Designing APIs for cache friendliness
  api
  Comments
• Multiple vulnerabilities fixed in Git
  security vcs
  Comments
• From iPhone to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
  ios security windows
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 14, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The cowardice of Brave
  browsers cryptocurrencies
  Comments
• Amazon's Rekognition shows its true colors
  privacy
  Comments
• Why computers suck and how learning from OpenBSD can make them marginally less horrible
  openbsd
  Comments
• vim 8.2 released
  release vim
  Comments
• Experiments in Constraint-based Graphic Design
  design python visualization
  Comments
• Modern garbage collection: Part 2
  java programming
  Comments
• What are your favorite good coding exercies?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Other examples of
  ask programming
  Comments
• Sleep for 1000 years
  programming
  Comments
• Subverting Elm packaging for fun and profit
  elm
  Comments
• Cryptocurrency Is Most Useful for Breaking Laws and Social Constructs
  cryptocurrencies
  Comments
• Meshing in a Minecraft Game
  graphics
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 13, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Amazon Premium
  programming
  Comments
• Local Privilege Escalation in OpenBSD's dynamic loader (CVE-2019-19726)
  openbsd security
  Comments
• How we use IRC at Last.fm (2009)
  historical practices
  Comments
• uni: Query the Unicode database from the commandline, with good support for emojis
  show unix
  Comments
• The Growing Problem of Malicious Relays on the Tor Network
  privacy security
  Comments
• “Link In Bio” is a slow knife
  web
  Comments
• Introducing sqlc - Compile SQL queries to type-safe Go
  databases go
  Comments
• Why is open source social media unappealing to most?
  ask culture
  Comments
• Better UX when reading from stdin
  unix
  Comments
• Using zero knowledge proofs to prove set membership without exposing the set or the member
  crypto
  Comments
• How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time in 2019
  rust
  Comments
• disque, a message queue, is being ported to Redis
  databases
  Comments

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

• osxfuse is no longer open source
  law mac
  Comments
• ZedRipper: A 16-core Z80 laptop
  hardware
  Comments
• The IntercalScript Programming Language
  art
  Comments
• Creating the Ultimate T420
  hardware
  Comments
• Things end users care about but programmers don't
  design practices
  Comments
• Formatting is Unreasonably Expensive for Embedded Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Frontend Lobsters, what are your pet peeves about the languages / frameworks you use?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Depending Less on Structure
  compsci programming
  Comments
• A thread about Internet Archive's "Silent Killer"
  web
  Comments
• a disaster-resilient communications network powered by the sun
  c c++ distributed hardware networking
  Comments
• Twitter backing initiative for open and decentralized standard for social media
  web
  Comments
• CI/CD pipelines: Monad, Arrow or Dart?
  devops ml plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 11, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Old books worth reading
  ask book
  Comments
• Don't Use Email to SMS Gateways. Please
  email mobile
  Comments
• New books worth reading in 2019
  ask book
  Comments
• Rust is fun
  rust
  Comments
• Declarative UI Patterns in Rust
  video graphics rust
  Comments
• Democratizing AI – Finland offers free AI education to every EU citizen
  ai education
  Comments
• How to write an IRC bot (2018)
  networking
  Comments
• Soundness bugs in Rust libraries: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em
  rust
  Comments
• A walk through the Magit interface
  emacs vcs
  Comments
• SVG + CSP: An Unappetizing Alphabet Soup
  browsers practices security
  Comments
• Chunking Optimizations: Let the Knife Do the Work
  c compilers performance
  Comments
• Type Families in Typescript
  plt programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 10, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables
  databases
  Comments
• WireGuard VPN on track to land in 5.6
  linux networking security
  Comments
• Wasmcloud Progress: Hello, World
  wasm
  Comments
• Send SMS using python (Without Twilio)
  programming python
  Comments
• return true to win
  games security
  Comments
• Developers shouldn't distribute their own software
  linux
  Comments
• USB in a NutShell
  hardware
  Comments
• Tests for timezones
  testing
  Comments
• O(n^2), again, now in WMI
  performance windows
  Comments
• L-systems
  games graphics
  Comments
• Working with letsencrypt’s certbot for a Lisp webserver
  lisp
  Comments
• Agner's Software Optimization resources
  api assembly c c++ freebsd linux mac netbsd performance windows
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 9, 2019 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Privacy Analysis of Tiktok’s App and Website
  privacy
  Comments
• Smalltalk with the GraalVM
  compilers java programming
  Comments
• TLA+ for startups (part 1)
  formalmethods
  Comments
• How Amazon builds and operates distributed systems
  distributed practices
  Comments
• Require is an Anti-Pattern
  scala
  Comments
• How to do hermetic builds
  practices
  Comments
• The Go runtime scheduler's clever way of dealing with system calls
  go
  Comments
• Introduction to Gate
  wasm
  Comments
• CompCertM: CompCert with C-Assembly Linking and Lightweight Modular Verification
  assembly c formalmethods
  Comments
• A Simple Proof of the Quadratic Formula
  pdf math
  Comments
• The Night Before Code Freeze
  art devops
  Comments
• NetBSD now runs Doom in Linux compat mode (1995)
  games linux netbsd
  Comments