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

• Apple to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse
  ai ios privacy
  Comments
• How does FaceTime Work?
  networking
  Comments
• Firefox: Performance in progress
  browsers performance web
  Comments
• HTTP/2: The Sequel is Always Worse
  security web
  Comments
• The Rust standard library on Espressif chips
  rust
  Comments
• SAML is insecure by design
  security
  Comments
• The Tao of Unicode Sparklines
  databases python visualization
  Comments
• A Brief Intro To Monad Transformers
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021
  programming
  Comments
• The Design of the NetBSD I/O Subsystems (2002)
  pdf netbsd
  Comments
• Rust: First Thoughts
  rust
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• The value destroying effect of arbitrary date pressure on code
  practices
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 6, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 640 Pages in 15 Months
  book
  Comments
• Airyx OS
  freebsd mac
  Comments
• On Unix composability
  unix
  Comments
• Another Nix Success Story
  programming unix
  Comments
• Slitter: a slab allocator that trusts, but verifies
  c rust
  Comments
• Visualizing a Codebase
  visualization
  Comments
• Haskell-like patterns in Lisp
  haskell lisp
  Comments
• Run Internet Explorer 5 in your browser
  historical
  Comments
• EmacsConf 2021 Call for Proposals
  emacs event
  Comments
• Simulating worlds on the GPU
  graphics programming
  Comments
• Dissecting the performance of production QUIC
  pdf networking performance
  Comments
• Practical? Common Lisp on the JVM: A quick intro to ABCL for modern web apps
  java lisp web
  Comments

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

• The push for GATs stabilization
  rust
  Comments
• The 5-hour CDN
  networking scaling web
  Comments
• We need an open source license for distributed systems
  distributed law
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• Exploring the SameSite cookie attribute for preventing CSRF
  browsers security web
  Comments
• Pinion — Nice-looking interactive diagrams for KiCAD PCBs
  design hardware
  Comments
• Internet Explorer for UNIX
  video historical unix
  Comments
• Linux Kernel Security Done Right
  linux security
  Comments
• Optional Chaining: The ?. Operator in TypeScript
  javascript
  Comments
• 3rd edition of Web Development with Clojure is out
  clojure web
  Comments
• Security Analysis of CHERI ISA
  pdf security
  Comments
• Microsoft Edge experimenting with a Super Duper Secure Mode
  browsers
  Comments
• Elements of Differential Geometry in Lean: A Report for Mathematicians
  formalmethods math
  Comments

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

• InitWare (a systemd fork) runs on OpenBSD for the first time
  openbsd systemd
  Comments
• GPSD time will jump back 1024 weeks at after week=2180 (23-October-2021)
  programming
  Comments
• vvaltchev/tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel
  osdev
  Comments
• Back to Linux
  linux mac windows
  Comments
• Full-Time Open Source
  person practices zig
  Comments
• Unix and Microservice Platforms
  devops
  Comments
• Haskell for the Elm Enthusiast
  elm haskell
  Comments
• Heptagon of Configuration (Software Engineering)
  practices
  Comments
• AI Art Machine: put in text, get art
  show ai art
  Comments
• NSA Kubernetes Hardening Guidance
  pdf devops security
  Comments
• What's Next for Object-Oriented Perl?
  perl
  Comments
• Choosing properties for property-based testing
  testing
  Comments

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

• Why are there no PUT and DELETE methods on HTML forms?
  historical web
  Comments
• Exit and voice in open source software
  practices
  Comments
• WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel
  crypto networking windows
  Comments
• Japan's Fifth Generation Computer Systems: Success or Failure?
  historical
  Comments
• The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
  linux
  Comments
• Making Reasonable Use of Computer Resources
  programming
  Comments
• Empty npm package '-' has over 700,000 downloads
  nodejs
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Virgo: a Graph-based Configuration Language
  devops go
  Comments
• your database connection deserves a name
  databases
  Comments
• How does n-key rollover work?
  video hardware
  Comments
• TypeScript can be your friend... if you let it
  javascript
  Comments

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

• New in Git: switch and restore
  vcs
  Comments
• Sorbet Compiler: An experimental, ahead-of-time compiler for Ruby
  ruby
  Comments
• Lang Jam
  plt
  Comments
• Announcing Axum
  rust
  Comments
• Amazon hit with record $885 million fine for violating EU privacy rules
  privacy
  Comments
• Learning that you can use unions in C for grouping things into namespaces
  c
  Comments
• Declarative GUIs in Racket
  video lisp
  Comments
• Why it’s okay for web components to use frameworks
  performance web
  Comments
• Rotten Apples: MacOS Codesigning Translocation Vulnerability
  mac security
  Comments
• How to write really slow Rust code
  performance rust
  Comments
• On C++ and Object Oriented Programming
  c++ practices programming
  Comments
• Focus: assign multiple engineers to the same task
  practices
  Comments

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

• 5000x faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization
  distributed javascript performance rust
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• Running My Own Email Server
  email openbsd
  Comments
• ; echo "Shell Injection"
  security
  Comments
• strcpy: a niche function you don't need
  c
  Comments
• Strict memcpy() bounds checking for the kernel
  c linux
  Comments
• The Hardest Problem in Type Theory [Uniqueness of Identity Proofs]
  video math plt
  Comments
• 6 Years of Professional Clojure
  clojure programming
  Comments
• Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages
  databases web
  Comments
• Hasta la Vista Gmail
  email
  Comments
• Chronofold: a data structure for versioned text
  distributed performance vcs
  Comments
• Nodashka is a babashka-like tool for Node.js
  clojure javascript
  Comments
• Making Client Certificates Available By Default in Firefox 90
  browsers
  Comments

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

• 700,000 lines of code, 20 years, and one developer: How Dwarf Fortress is built
  games person
  Comments
• Cloudflare's inaccessible browser contradicts the company's mission
  a11y browsers
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• The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs
  mac
  Comments
• From Stolen Laptop to Inside the Company Network
  security
  Comments
• Please send me examples of good OOP code
  programming
  Comments
• Canonicalization Attacks Against MACs and Signatures
  crypto security
  Comments
• Ian Hickson proposes a new vector format
  graphics web
  Comments
• Ruby 3.1's new debugger
  ruby
  Comments
• Path hints for B-trees can bring a performance increase of 150% - 300%
  compsci databases
  Comments
• Source for the Multics operating system
  historical osdev
  Comments
• Awesome Unstable Rust Features
  rust
  Comments
• Descriptorless files for io_uring
  linux
  Comments

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

• m4 - the one true templating language
  programming
  Comments
• NixOS on the Framework
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Zip - How not to design a file format
  programming
  Comments
• Evil tip: avoid "easy" things (2016)
  practices
  Comments
• The Baked Data architectural pattern
  databases web
  Comments
• A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System
  video osdev
  Comments
• fromMaybe is Just a fold
  haskell
  Comments
• Safari isn’t protecting the web, it’s killing it
  browsers
  Comments
• Rust on GraalVM using bitcode
  compilers java rust
  Comments
• Memory Management in Lobster
  plt
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.54.0
  rust
  Comments
• Python behind the scenes #11: how the Python import system works
  python
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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• passerine: A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code
  plt
  Comments
• FreeDOS running Windows 3.1
  historical
  Comments
• Why you should build on Kubernetes from day one
  audio devops practices
  Comments
• Why Golang Is Bad for Smart Programmers
  go rant
  Comments
• Revisiting Prechelt’s paper and follow-ups comparing Java, Lisp, C/C++, Rust and scripting languages
  c++ java lisp performance rust
  Comments
• Striking new Beeping Busy Beaver champion
  compsci
  Comments
• Basic schema inference for arbitrary JavaScript data objects
  show javascript
  Comments
• Kubernetes Maximalism
  devops rant
  Comments
• How Far Can I Push a GenServer?
  elixir
  Comments
• P-CNC Plotter Disguised As a Quadruped Robot
  hardware
  Comments
• Let’s Talk OpenZFS Snapshots
  freebsd
  Comments
• EvilModel: Hiding Malware Inside of Neural Network Models
  ai security
  Comments