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

• Big problems at the timezone database
  java
  Comments
• Why I Use Nim instead of Python for Data Processing
  programming
  Comments
• OCaml 4.13.0
  ml release
  Comments
• Why We Killed Our End-to-End Test Suite
  practices programming testing
  Comments
• No, We Won’t Have a Video Call for That
  practices
  Comments
• A terminal case of Linux
  linux rust
  Comments
• Fedora Workstation: Our Vision for Linux Desktop
  linux
  Comments
• Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)
  security
  Comments
• Vectorizing xxHash for Fun and Profit (2013)
  c performance
  Comments
• Roots (PDP-8 emulator for the iPad)
  ios virtualization
  Comments
• Transactional Tests for Rails running outside of rails (react, detox, cypress)
  ruby testing
  Comments
• Code Smell: Primitive Obsession
  video plt practices
  Comments

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

• Disclosure of three 0-day iOS vulnerabilities and critique of Apple Security Bounty program
  ios security
  Comments
• Atari ST in daily use since 1985
  video historical
  Comments
• Examining btrfs, Linux’s perpetually half-finished filesystem
  linux
  Comments
• Go generics have a new "type sets" way of doing type constraints
  go plt
  Comments
• It's tough being an Azure fan
  devops
  Comments
• Python as a build tool
  java python
  Comments
• My Math Confession
  compsci math
  Comments
• The world's worst Linux kernel module (driver)
  linux
  Comments
• New tool: an nginx playground
  devops
  Comments
• My Janet Story
  lisp programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• coreutils-9.0 released [stable]
  release unix
  Comments

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

• A different take on the NUMA OOM killer story
  linux
  Comments
• Rust on ESP32
  hardware rust
  Comments
• SILE v0.12.0 Is Released — Please welcome MATH typesetting
  lua math
  Comments
• Fun with Redirection
  unix
  Comments
• Bespoke shenanigans
  art
  Comments
• "Why should I use Nyxt if I can use Vimium?"
  browsers emacs
  Comments
• The Rust Programming Language for Game Tooling
  pdf games rust
  Comments
• Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux
  linux security systemd
  Comments
• How We Got to LiveView
  elixir web
  Comments
• Writing a persistent BTree
  programming rust
  Comments
• Optimize Rust binaries size with cargo and Semver
  rust
  Comments
• Building Dispo
  python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A different kind of keyboard
  show hardware
  Comments
• Enumerating and analyzing 40+ non-V8 JavaScript implementations
  javascript plt
  Comments
• Taming Go’s Memory Usage, or How We Avoided Rewriting Our Client in Rust
  go performance
  Comments
• An update on Memory Safety in Chrome
  security
  Comments
• Leaving Apples ecosystem and choosing tools which align with my mindset
  philosophy
  Comments
• Nyxt Release 2.2.0
  browsers emacs
  Comments
• Computer Science: A Discipline Misnamed
  compsci historical
  Comments
• The Actor Reentrancy Problem in Swift
  swift
  Comments
• DIY RGB Icosahedron build
  hardware
  Comments
• I pattern I have been applying in Elixir: Using Ecto to validate params from web requests
  elixir web
  Comments
• Concept of files and folder unfamiliar to modern students
  education
  Comments
• Rust: Structuring and handling errors in 2020 (2020)
  rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• deskto.ps — share annotated screenshots of your desktop
  art unix
  Comments
• Native fuzzing will be in Go 1.18
  go
  Comments
• Rust adds initial support for m68k
  rust
  Comments
• Autumn Lisp Game Jam 2021
  games lisp
  Comments
• More Casio Watch Mods (LCD Colors, Transparent Display, Micro SD, Strap Remover)
  hardware
  Comments
• Public Domain Operating System
  osdev
  Comments
• macOS Finder RCE
  mac security
  Comments
• Implementing Co, a Small Interpreted Language With Coroutines #2: The Interpreter
  compilers haskell plt
  Comments
• 5 RCEs in npm for $15,000
  security
  Comments
• Guix-HPC — What’s in a package
  ai lisp python science
  Comments
• Engineering for Scale in Clojure
  clojure programming
  Comments
• Senior Software Engineer - HDR Enablement
  graphics job linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Is it better to teach beginner coders a low level or a high level language as their first language?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Structural pattern matching in Python 3.10
  python
  Comments
• Google Docs in a clean-room browser
  browsers
  Comments
• Arcan as Operating System Design
  osdev
  Comments
• Swift Regrets
  plt swift
  Comments
• Let's Encrypt's Root Certificate is expiring
  security web
  Comments
• Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress
  linux release
  Comments
• v0.17 of Gleam, a type safe language for the Erlang VM, is out
  erlang plt release
  Comments
• So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?
  historical mac unix
  Comments
• AI and automation are at odds
  ai
  Comments
• PCB Metro Map
  hardware
  Comments
• Fuzzing Zig Code Using AFL++
  zig
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Is the formal methods winter about to end?
  ask formalmethods
  Comments
• Sidenotes In Web Design
  design web
  Comments
• The elements of git
  vcs
  Comments
• The DragonFlyBSD Operating System (2004)
  pdf dragonflybsd osdev unix
  Comments
• A History of Clojure with Q&A
  video clojure historical
  Comments
• Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/s
  pdf freebsd hardware networking performance
  Comments
• Rust on the MOS 6502: Beyond Fibonacci
  rust
  Comments
• Insight Debugger
  assembly debugging
  Comments
• Oil Has Multi-line Commands and String Literals
  programming unix
  Comments
• Classic Console Neue
  design
  Comments
• NetHack Challenge
  games science
  Comments
• Infrastructure as SQL
  databases devops
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 19, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• DOS Subsystem for Linux
  linux
  Comments
• What I Learnt Becoming a Tech Lead
  practices programming
  Comments
• How We Made Playable Quotes for the Game Boy
  historical reversing virtualization
  Comments
• Why We Migrated from Kubernetes to Nomad
  devops
  Comments
• Introducing Bagel: A statically typed, reactive language with pure and impure functions
  javascript plt
  Comments
• chkservice: ncurses-based TUI for systemd
  linux programming systemd
  Comments
• My pain building a WYSIWYG editor with contenteditable
  web
  Comments
• sysz: An fzf terminal UI for systemctl
  systemd
  Comments
• Our Next Trip to Integer Partitions
  math
  Comments
• Q&A with the co-creator of the 6502
  hardware historical
  Comments
• How does Tailscale's MagicDNS work?
  ask networking
  Comments
• Upgraded Homemade Silicon Chips
  video hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ditch your version manager
  programming
  Comments
• Where are IPv3 and IPv5?
  historical networking
  Comments
• Using Podman with BuildKit, the better Docker image builder
  devops
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Shenandoah in OpenJDK 17: Sub-millisecond GC pauses
  java performance
  Comments
• Easy Type-Safe Integer Types In C++
  c++
  Comments
• Version Control Without Git
  vcs
  Comments
• the keyword `class` has no more reason to exist
  c++
  Comments
• Building Common Lisp Executables
  lisp
  Comments
• Chatons
  culture philosophy
  Comments
• chibicc can bootstrap cproc
  show c compilers
  Comments
• Linux Executables Deployed as Stealth Windows Loaders
  security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 17, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A defense of boring languages (2015)
  programming
  Comments
• The long-term consequences of maintainers’ actions
  practices
  Comments
• Rocket: A Web Framework for Rust
  rust web
  Comments
• Unicode 14.0.0
  programming
  Comments
• Marginalia Search
  release web
  Comments
• Eyes Tell All: Irregular Pupil Shapes Reveal GAN-generated Faces
  pdf ai
  Comments
• Building an Alternative Ecosystem
  api linux
  Comments
• Better x86 emulation with Live CDs
  virtualization
  Comments
• PDM - Python package manager with PEP 582 support
  python
  Comments
• Introducing Matchbox - painless peer-to-peer networking in rust web assembly
  networking rust wasm
  Comments
• Debugging by starting a REPL at a breakpoint is fun
  debugging python ruby
  Comments
• Exactly once delivery from Kafka to Delta Lake with Rust
  databases distributed rust
  Comments