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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 27, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protect domains that don’t send email
  email security
  Comments
• Modern storage is plenty fast. It is the APIs that are bad
  api performance
  Comments
• I Spent 11 Years Working on This Line Rider Track
  art graphics
  Comments
• Git9 is self hosted now: Hosting git on Plan 9
  programming vcs
  Comments
• reasoning about colors
  art
  Comments
• Why you should use `nproc` and not grep /proc/cpuinfo
  linux
  Comments
• Cordless project closed down
  law
  Comments
• Filesystem and Database are not cutting the problem space right
  databases programming
  Comments
• PHP 8 Released
  php release
  Comments
• Rebuilding the Racket Compiler with Chez Scheme
  lisp programming
  Comments
• Blender 2.91
  graphics release
  Comments
• quiver: a modern commutative diagram editor
  show math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 26, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• An API is a user interface
  api programming
  Comments
• What should a new OS have?
  ask osdev
  Comments
• A WIP CLI for Lobsters
  show programming
  Comments
• Rust library for homomorphic hashing
  show crypto release rust
  Comments
• FreeBSD Commands Cheat Sheet
  freebsd
  Comments
• Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 3 (Effect Systems)
  plt
  Comments
• Why I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
  web
  Comments
• PAM Bypass: when null(is not)ok
  linux security
  Comments
• Nix(OS) Thoughts
  linux
  Comments
• Someone attacked our company
  security
  Comments
• Learn Difficult Concepts with the ADEPT Method (2014)
  education
  Comments
• Distributed Systems with Node.js: Building Enterprise-Ready Backend Services (2020, O'Reilly)
  distributed nodejs
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 25, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You might not need machine learning
  ai
  Comments
• Smithy --- A tiny git forge written in Go
  show go vcs
  Comments
• An opinionated list of best practices for textual websites
  web
  Comments
• Ruby on Rails: Still the Best Web App Framework for Most Teams
  ruby
  Comments
• What went wrong with the libdispatch. A tale of caution for the future of concurrency
  api
  Comments
• WireGuard for Windows 0.3: ARM support, enterprise features, & more
  crypto networking windows
  Comments
• Vulkan implementation for Rasperry Pi 4 is now conformant
  graphics
  Comments
• Cover Your Tracks - See how trackers view your browser
  privacy web
  Comments
• Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help
  culture programming rust
  Comments
• Advice on advanced degrees in computer science?
  ask education
  Comments
• Play: Statically typed Forth, compiled to WASM
  elm plt wasm
  Comments
• 1x Forth by Charles Moore 4/13/99
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 24, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Getting started with Firecracker on Raspberry Pi
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• Bitbucket is developer hell
  rant vcs
  Comments
• The Raspberry Pi makes a great USB webcam for $100
  hardware linux
  Comments
• A practical guide to URI encoding and URI decoding
  web
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• These are called opportunities
  performance
  Comments
• r/perl - Where is Perl used these days?
  perl
  Comments
• A magic eye that makes magic eyes
  art perl
  Comments
• If All You Have Is a Database, Everything Looks Like a Nail
  databases
  Comments
• Douane: Linux personal firewall with per application rule controls
  linux security
  Comments
• DOOM on the Nintendo Game and Watch
  video hardware reversing
  Comments
• GNU Guix 1.2.0 released
  linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 23, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Booting from a vinyl record
  historical
  Comments
• PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Apple ARM M1 MacBook Pro 2020
  databases
  Comments
• How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux
  linux
  Comments
• 250kb Club
  web
  Comments
• Glade Not Recommended
  linux
  Comments
• Haskell Proposal: Simplify Deriving
  haskell plt
  Comments
• Yellowstone Back From the Dead
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Even faster bash startup
  performance unix
  Comments
• OpenWrt and self-signed certificates
  security
  Comments
• GitHub Issues As Comments
  web
  Comments
• rust-script - Run Rust files and expressions as scripts without any setup or compilation step
  rust
  Comments
• Pikelet is a small, functional, dependently typed programming language
  plt
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 22, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers
  databases linux
  Comments
• What small change(s) has made a large impact on your life?
  ask practices
  Comments
• A Taste of OCaml's Predictable Performance
  assembly ml
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Intro to DDlog
  compilers plt rust
  Comments
• Optimizing Your Web App 100x is Like Adding 99 Servers
  performance scaling
  Comments
• How to Setup Prometheus, Grafana and Loki on NixOS
  devops
  Comments
• A few ways to make money in FOSS
  culture
  Comments
• Shaking Down the Raspberry Pi 400
  linux programming
  Comments
• Exploiting dynamic rendering engines to take control of web apps
  security web
  Comments
• systemd targets and infrastucture layers
  systemd
  Comments
• Branch Prediction Is Not a Solved Problem
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 21, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Starting January 4, Google will block all sign-ins to Google accounts from embedded browsers
  browsers
  Comments
• The tab programming language
  plt unix
  Comments
• An experimental O(1) Garbage Collector
  show plt programming
  Comments
• Introducing Bupstash
  release
  Comments
• Windows Subsystem for Linux: The lost potential
  linux windows
  Comments
• Nyxt browser Dashboard
  browsers emacs
  Comments
• Eight years of engine development at Roblox
  graphics performance
  Comments
• Before the BSD Kernel starts: Part One on AMD64
  netbsd osdev
  Comments
• Tailscale on OpenBSD
  openbsd
  Comments
• Caramel: an OCaml to Erlang compiler
  erlang ml
  Comments
• Executives don’t understand software and that’s a problem
  practices
  Comments
• Developing Wayland Color Management and High Dynamic Range
  graphics linux
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 20, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Meet hello – Lets Make FreeBSD for Mere Mortals
  freebsd
  Comments
• Leap second hiatus
  networking
  Comments
• Coding Fonts Gallery
  design programming
  Comments
• Batteries included with Emacs
  emacs
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.48.0
  release rust
  Comments
• NIMBY Rails — A development retrospective
  games graphics
  Comments
• zfs.rent
  programming
  Comments
• My Beef With RuboCop
  ruby
  Comments
• New courses on distributed systems and elliptic curve cryptography
  crypto
  Comments
• Tailwind CSS 2 is out
  css release
  Comments
• Advent of Code in Haskell: T Minus 16
  haskell programming
  Comments
• Archives of Lisp Machine Inc
  hardware historical lisp
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 19, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How do Spotify Codes work?
  programming
  Comments
• 40 millisecond bug
  programming rust
  Comments
• cut vs. awk
  unix
  Comments
• FrontPage: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
  historical web
  Comments
• Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA
  assembly hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• POSIX write() is not atomic in the way that you might like
  api unix
  Comments
• On-demand linked libraries for Nix
  linux
  Comments
• Your first attempt at making anything accessible will be awful
  a11y
  Comments
• Unbound DNS Blacklist
  browsers freebsd illumos linux mac netbsd openbsd
  Comments
• Meet the Microsoft Pluton processor – The security chip designed for the future of Windows PCs
  hardware security windows
  Comments
• Best aspects of C language
  c
  Comments
• Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Earns 7508 Multi-Core Score in Cinebench Benchmark
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 18, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Servo’s new home
  browsers rust
  Comments
• What Gödel Discovered
  historical math
  Comments
• Firefox 83 introduces HTTPS-Only Mode
  browsers security
  Comments
• Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys
  crypto security
  Comments
• TempleOS on real hardware Thinkpad T60 - RIP Terry Davis
  video osdev
  Comments
• Automatic syntax error recovery
  compilers
  Comments
• The Rust Performance Book
  book performance rust
  Comments
• Get real, you don't need Github
  rant vcs
  Comments
• From sharded Postgres to a columnar datastore; simpler lives and 2x better query performance
  databases
  Comments
• Upcoming Git changes the default of init.defaultBranch to main
  release vcs
  Comments
• Haiku activity report - October 2020
  osdev
  Comments
• Improving Vim Workflow With fzf
  vim
  Comments