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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 2, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What are you self hosting? (2021)
  ask practices
  Comments
• The Unexpected Find That Freed 20GB of Unused Index Space in PostgreSQL
  databases performance
  Comments
• Do less and do it better
  philosophy
  Comments
• Will Windows become Open Source?
  windows
  Comments
• Introducing flox - Nix for simplicity and scale
  devops linux
  Comments
• The reshaped Mac experience
  mac rant
  Comments
• I couldn't find any "image to textual line art" programs, so I made one
  graphics
  Comments
• "Everything is an actor" implies that there is a category of actors
  compsci math rant security
  Comments
• The Cult of Best Practice
  practices
  Comments
• Null Characters: Workarounds Aren’t Good Enough
  c databases security
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Why You Should Never Use MongoDB (2013)
  databases
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 1, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A Model for Identity in Software
  philosophy
  Comments
• RETRO: a Modern, Pragmatic Forth
  plt
  Comments
• Sequoia PGP
  security
  Comments
• Why I still Lisp (and you should too!)
  lisp
  Comments
• Nissan Gives Up Root Shell Thanks To Hacked USB Drive
  hardware linux
  Comments
• A (surprising?) question about predicate logic
  ask compsci math
  Comments
• Hammers and nails, and operator overloads
  c c++
  Comments
• Microsoft open sources database library used in Exchange and Windows
  c++ databases windows
  Comments
• How does clang 2.7 hold up in 2021?
  c performance programming
  Comments
• The Linux "copy problem"
  linux osdev performance
  Comments
• Saving Some Allocations
  rust
  Comments
• Building a personal data warehouse in Snowflake for fun and no profit
  databases visualization
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 31, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Element on Google Play Store
  distributed
  Comments
• What are your favorite Linux/Unix blogs?
  ask linux unix
  Comments
• Recursive Sans & Mono: A highly-flexible variable font
  design
  Comments
• Is Erlang a good career path?
  ask erlang
  Comments
• Grouping the tangential discussion
  meta
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Starship: Cross-Shell Prompt
  rust unix
  Comments
• The weirdest compiler bug
  debugging
  Comments
• Cory Doctorow: IP
  law
  Comments
• I built a hash identification system with popularity ratings, john & hashcat modes, and descriptions
  show python security
  Comments
• Creating my awesome Windows 10 dev setup
  windows
  Comments
• GNU Humor Collection
  culture
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 30, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jehanne - a simple operating system
  osdev
  Comments
• Implementing Regular Expressions
  c programming
  Comments
• Why I'm losing faith in UX
  design rant
  Comments
• Uniwidth typefaces for interface design
  design
  Comments
• Achieving 11M IOPS & 66 GB/s IO on a Single ThreadRipper Workstation
  linux performance
  Comments
• Stop using Libgcrypt 1.9.0
  crypto security
  Comments
• Coming in Go 1.16: ReadDir and DirEntry
  go performance python
  Comments
• Reasoning about code is a scam
  programming rant
  Comments
• On Go 2 Generics
  go
  Comments
• StrictMark: rational Markdown
  web
  Comments
• perl.com unfriendly domain take over?
  perl
  Comments
• Blinkenlights: your pc binary emulating visualizer
  debugging
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why curl uses GitHub
  devops vcs
  Comments
• OO in Python is mostly pointless
  python
  Comments
• The Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is still developed and modern in 2021
  linux
  Comments
• qutebrowser v2.0.0 released, with support for Brave's Rust adblocker
  browsers release
  Comments
• Safe dead code removal in a pure functional language
  elm javascript plt
  Comments
• How to Read Rust Functions, Part 1
  rust
  Comments
• OpenBSD on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Nano (1st Gen)
  hardware openbsd
  Comments
• Silicon Valley hasn’t innovated since 1978
  historical rant
  Comments
• Ballista, a distributed compute platform made with Rust and Apache Arrow
  distributed programming rust
  Comments
• WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
  web
  Comments
• Let's Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science
  historical science
  Comments
• krunvm: Create and run lightweight VMs from OCI images on Linux and macOS/arm64
  virtualization
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in the industry
  practices
  Comments
• The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
  web
  Comments
• What am I running inside my bash?
  linux
  Comments
• What color was “Apple Beige”?
  design historical
  Comments
• JanetDocs
  programming
  Comments
• What’s The Deal With Chromium On Linux? Google At Odds With Package Maintainers
  browsers linux
  Comments
• 編程語言 Programming Language for the ancient Chinese
  plt
  Comments
• Tinywm: An X11 window manager in 50 lines of C
  graphics programming unix
  Comments
• NAT Slipstreaming v2.0: New Attack Variant Can Expose All Internal Network Devices to The Internet
  security
  Comments
• The R language, for programmers
  programming
  Comments
• CSS: prefers-color-scheme
  browsers web
  Comments
• A Peek Into The Future Of Distros
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Firefox 85 Cracks Down on Supercookies
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• Heap-based buffer overflow in Sudo (CVE-2021-3156)
  security
  Comments
• Solo v2: redesign of the open FIDO2 security key
  crypto hardware security
  Comments
• Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools
  unix
  Comments
• skiftOS
  osdev
  Comments
• Vanilla Emacs on NixOS
  emacs linux
  Comments
• Raspberry Pi: Boot to BASIC
  programming
  Comments
• Should You Write a Wayland Compositor?
  c c++ linux
  Comments
• Window System Design: If I had it to do over again in 2002
  pdf graphics
  Comments
• awa: Purely functional SSH library in OCaml
  ml
  Comments
• Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released
  android hardware
  Comments
• Vim's todo.txt
  vim
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Zig Makes Go Cross Compilation Just Work
  c c++ go zig
  Comments
• Ordering Burritos from my SPARC (1992)
  unix
  Comments
• I made an alarm clock
  show hardware programming
  Comments
• Why you should never ever use NixOS (2018)
  linux rant
  Comments
• Elm at Rakuten
  elm web
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Gleam: Lean BEAM typing machine
  video erlang plt
  Comments
• The endless browser wars
  browsers
  Comments
• Node.js race conditions
  javascript
  Comments
• Pallene: A statically typed companion language for Lua (2018)
  pdf lua
  Comments
• Bundlewrap: First Impressions
  devops python
  Comments
• What is the future of databases?
  databases
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• ijq: Interactive jq
  programming
  Comments
• Offloading NixOS builds to a faster machine
  devops linux
  Comments
• Pip has dropped support for Python 2
  python release
  Comments
• lite - A lightweight text editor written in Lua
  lua programming
  Comments
• Sokyokuban a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world
  games math
  Comments
• Small, strongly typed, embeddable language in Zig
  plt zig
  Comments
• Make Boring Plans
  practices
  Comments
• 9p GitHub filesystem written in Go
  go vcs
  Comments
• Racket Compiler and Runtime Status: January 2021
  lisp
  Comments
• An Oddity In VIM
  vim
  Comments
• GumTree - A neat code differencing tool
  programming
  Comments
• The No-Order File System (2012)
  osdev programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What do you use for password management?
  ask privacy security
  Comments
• KindleDrip — From Your Kindle’s Email Address to Using Your Credit Card
  security
  Comments
• fe - A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C in less than 800 sloc
  c lisp
  Comments
• Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• Brad Cox (creator of Objective-C) has died
  objectivec person
  Comments
• What do you use to share URLs, photos, or random bits of text between devices?
  ask android ios
  Comments
• Quite the reMarkable Device
  culture hardware
  Comments
• PostgreSQL on ARM-based AWS EC2 Instances: Is It Any Good?
  databases performance
  Comments
• Writing a Simple Garbage Collector in C (2020)
  c programming
  Comments
• I bought 200+ Raspberry Pi Model B's and I'm going to fix them! Part 1
  hardware
  Comments
• But how, exactly, databases use mmap?
  databases unix
  Comments
• On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots:Can Language Models Be Too Big?
  pdf ai
  Comments