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

• Pattern matching accepted for Python
  python
  Comments
• Beej's Guide to Network Programming
  c networking
  Comments
• Babbage was a true genius
  assembly historical
  Comments
• Comparison of Rust async and Linux thread context switch time and memory use
  performance
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.50.0
  rust
  Comments
• FreeBSD 13 BETA Benchmarks - Performance Is Much Better
  freebsd performance
  Comments
• 6 ways to log ineffectively
  debugging practices programming testing
  Comments
• Better BASHing Through Technology
  programming unix
  Comments
• Ambiguous Timezone Abbreviations
  linux mac
  Comments
• The Newspeak Programming Language
  programming
  Comments
• For The Love Of All That's Holy, Use CCL To Control Complexity In Your Systems
  philosophy practices programming
  Comments
• system76/launch keyboard
  hardware
  Comments

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

• Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
  security
  Comments
• I don't want to do front-end anymore
  javascript programming rant web
  Comments
• I'm tired of this anti-Rust horseshit
  rant rust satire
  Comments
• Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 3
  haskell
  Comments
• Toolchains.net - A collection of toolchain resources
  c c++ compilers debugging
  Comments
• Adding a minimal foreign function interface to your language
  compilers python
  Comments
• -XFunctorialDo
  haskell
  Comments
• The PowerPC AS Tagged Memory Extensions
  hardware
  Comments
• A small regex implementation in C in less than 600 LOC
  c programming scaling
  Comments
• Windows CE History: A Diminutive Stage for Microsoft’s Grand Ambitions
  historical mobile windows
  Comments
• Setting up a CI system part 1: Preparing your test machines
  hardware linux testing
  Comments
• Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code
  hardware science
  Comments

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

• Crackpot Cryptography and Security Theater
  crypto science
  Comments
• Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
  hardware
  Comments
• Starting Over: A FOSS proposal for a new type of OS for a new type of computer
  linux lisp osdev
  Comments
• Sunsetting PHP Faker
  php release
  Comments
• All Pythons are slow, but some are faster than others
  performance python
  Comments
• cURL supports rustls
  networking rust
  Comments
• Why is SQL so successful?
  ask databases
  Comments
• How much are non x86/arm platforms used?
  ask hardware programming
  Comments
• Madaidan's Insecurities
  linux security
  Comments
• Computer intruder tried to poison Florida city’s drinking water with lye
  security
  Comments
• Browser fuzzing at Mozilla
  security
  Comments
• ReactOS Newsletter: January 2021
  osdev
  Comments

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

• Rust Foundation - Hello World
  rust
  Comments
• soju: A user-friendly IRC bouncer
  networking
  Comments
• an atonement of nano
  programming
  Comments
• Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police
  law
  Comments
• Dependency on rust removes support for a number of platforms · Issue #5771 · pyca/cryptography
  python rust
  Comments
• Intermittent 503s on Cloudflare's Free Plan
  networking security web
  Comments
• FOSDEM 2021 was the best online event ever
  event
  Comments
• AMD reportedly developing ARM silicon chip
  hardware
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• fzf - the basics part 2 - search results
  unix
  Comments
• Debian 10.8 released
  linux release
  Comments
• Penpot is an open-source solution for design and prototyping
  design web
  Comments

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

• Please add a `nix` tag
  meta
  Comments
• Making Sense of The Audio Stack On Unix
  unix
  Comments
• The /bin/true Command and Copyright
  historical unix
  Comments
• Configuring Neovim using Lua
  lua vim
  Comments
• FreeBSD 13.0-BETA1 Now Available
  freebsd release
  Comments
• Shithub: Public git hosting on 9front
  show vcs
  Comments
• Inline caching: quickening
  c performance plt
  Comments
• Haiku activity report - January 2021
  osdev
  Comments
• Intel benchmarks say Apple's M1 isn't faster: Reality checked claims
  hardware mac performance
  Comments
• Snowflake retros
  practices
  Comments
• cisco/systemf
  api c linux
  Comments
• Unleashing Sum Types in Pure C99
  c
  Comments

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

• Is abstraction killing civilization?
  plt
  Comments
• ARCHITECTURE.md
  practices
  Comments
• On the Missed Opportunities of Static Types
  go
  Comments
• My Automagic NixOS Wireguard Setup
  devops
  Comments
• creativity
  art programming
  Comments
• Is license compatibility a partial order?
  compsci law math practices
  Comments
• GHC 9.0 Reading Guide
  pdf haskell
  Comments
• Setting up a Signal Proxy using FreeBSD
  freebsd security
  Comments
• ditaa: DIagrams Through Ascii Art
  art programming
  Comments
• Folds are constructor substitution
  haskell
  Comments
• A one-bit processor explained: reverse-engineering the vintage MC14500B
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Awesome Quantified Self
  practices visualization
  Comments

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

• In the future, even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs
  hardware security
  Comments
• Disqus, the dark commenting system
  privacy
  Comments
• Rethinking Sanakirja, a Rust database engine with fast clones
  databases rust
  Comments
• Web Browser Engineering
  web
  Comments
• My Staff Software Engineering Reading List
  book
  Comments
• FOSDEM 2021 - Schedule
  event
  Comments
• GHC 9.0.1 released
  haskell
  Comments
• Homebrew 3.0.0
  release
  Comments
• A Random Job Interview Challenge In Clojure
  clojure programming
  Comments
• Penpot (Open-Source prototyping tool) v1.1.0-alpha released
  programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• 8 bits are enough for a version number
  linux
  Comments

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

• Microsoft repo installed on all Raspberry Pi's Linux OS
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Push some big numbers through your system and look for bugs
  programming
  Comments
• GHC development in 2020: My retrospective
  haskell
  Comments
• What are you writing in small languages?
  ask plt
  Comments
• Waiting for PostgreSQL 14 – SEARCH and CYCLE clauses
  databases
  Comments
• The visitor pattern is essentially the same thing as Church encoding
  haskell plt
  Comments
• Don't use functions as callbacks unless they're designed for it
  javascript
  Comments
• Native Mac APIs for Go
  go
  Comments
• Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal
  privacy
  Comments
• Benchmark comparison between C compilers for the 6502
  compilers performance
  Comments
• The computer built to last 50 years
  hardware
  Comments
• FreeBSD Remote Process Plugin on Non-x86 Architectures
  debugging freebsd
  Comments

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

• The Only M1 Benchmark That Matters
  emacs mac
  Comments
• Cold Paths
  practices
  Comments
• Is Rust a Functional Programming Language?
  rust
  Comments
• Why I Still Use RSS
  web
  Comments
• fzf - the basics part 1 - layout
  unix
  Comments
• How do you keep track of things you learn/discover everyday?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Bluetooth trackball Mark II
  hardware
  Comments
• Homebrew Python Is Not For You
  mac python
  Comments
• Drawbacks of developing in containers
  rant
  Comments
• Four books professional developers should read (and a few you don't need to)
  book
  Comments
• What's new in PHP 8.1
  php
  Comments
• Exploiting the Nespresso smart cards for fun and coffee
  reversing security
  Comments

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

• Think Twice Before Abandoning Xorg - Wayland Breaks Everything
  freebsd illumos linux netbsd openbsd rant
  Comments
• Go 1.16 will make system calls through libc on OpenBSD
  go openbsd
  Comments
• RISC-V isn't as interesting as you think
  assembly rant
  Comments
• Emacs: from catching up to getting ahead
  emacs
  Comments
• A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code
  pdf compilers
  Comments
• UUID Primary Key in Elixir Phoenix with PostgreSQL and Ecto
  databases elixir web
  Comments
• Recover Bricked SSD with JTAG
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Is a Git Repository a Blockchain? (2016)
  distributed vcs
  Comments
• Use Mac APIs and build Mac apps with Go
  go mac
  Comments
• What are X-macros?
  c c++
  Comments
• Generating Text With Markov Chains
  programming python
  Comments
• Simple and Secure VPN in FreeBSD – Introducing WireGuard
  freebsd networking
  Comments