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

• Falsehoods programmers believe about time zones
  programming
  Comments
• 'changeme' is valid base64
  programming
  Comments
• A Native American tribe in S.D. created its own wireless education network
  networking
  Comments
• How I Hired 7 Freelancers to Exploit this Weird Vulnerability
  security
  Comments
• The Workman keyboard layout
  hardware practices
  Comments
• Rejuvenating Autoconf
  unix
  Comments
• What Was BeOS, and Why Did People Love It?
  historical osdev
  Comments
• XMHell: Handling 38GB of UTF-16 XML with Rust
  rust
  Comments
• How Local Fonts Can Save The Environment
  web
  Comments
• Étude in C minor
  art c programming
  Comments
• Neon - A Programming Language to teach Programming Languages
  programming
  Comments
• Introducing Ungrammar
  compilers plt rust
  Comments

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

• YouTube-DL repository taken down from GitHub by RIAA due to DMCA request
  law programming
  Comments
• On our Abusive Relationship with Mozilla’s Firefox
  browsers rant
  Comments
• Whose computer is it? On Apple's network extension bypasses
  mac networking security
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• PHP 8: before and after
  php
  Comments
• Understanding static single assignment forms
  assembly c compilers
  Comments
• Dynamically bound GOTO considered awesome! - Leo White on Programming Language design
  compilers ml plt
  Comments
• The Guix System image API
  devops
  Comments
• Rust GPU
  graphics rust
  Comments
• In Buenos Aires, Homer Simpson runs your ISP
  web
  Comments
• A Programmer’s Intuition for Matrix Multiplication
  math programming
  Comments
• Introducing JSDB
  databases javascript
  Comments

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

• What are your favorite non-standard CLI utils/applications
  ask unix
  Comments
• I miss Microsoft Encarta
  historical
  Comments
• Just write the #!%/* parser
  plt
  Comments
• Building replacement proprietary battery packs
  hardware
  Comments
• Four Features That Justify a New Unix Shell
  programming unix
  Comments
• Don't copy and paste into a shell
  browsers security
  Comments
• Electronics project sharing site focused on ease of replication
  show hardware
  Comments
• State of Emacs Survey
  emacs
  Comments
• Fear and Loathing in YAML
  rant
  Comments
• Non-Generic Inner Functions
  rust
  Comments
• Getting Big Things Done
  practices
  Comments
• Dream Machine: MiSTer FPGA
  hardware historical
  Comments

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

• This website is killing the planet
  web
  Comments
• Ridiculously fast unicode (UTF-8) validation
  performance
  Comments
• Violating monotonic time expectations on Mojave
  mac
  Comments
• RuboCop 1.0
  ruby
  Comments
• Announcing NetBSD 9.1
  netbsd release
  Comments
• Hands-Free Coding
  a11y
  Comments
• Larry Ellisonʼs Oracle started as a CIA project (2014)
  historical
  Comments
• Nyxt Browser Release 2 Pre-release 3
  browsers emacs lisp vim
  Comments
• You don't need a blockchain, you need a time-series database
  cryptocurrencies databases
  Comments
• TrueNAS 12 Release is Out Farewell FreeNAS
  freebsd
  Comments
• The Surprising Impact of Medium-Size Texts on PostgreSQL Performance
  databases performance
  Comments
• /* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */
  historical unix
  Comments

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

• Assorted thoughts on zig (and rust)
  rust zig
  Comments
• I enforced the AGPL on my code, here's how it went (bad)
  law php
  Comments
• Why mmap is faster than system calls
  linux performance
  Comments
• Choose your browser carefully
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• What if a website were only accessible by assistive technology?
  a11y web
  Comments
• The Long Road to HTTP/3
  historical networking web
  Comments
• Better Git diff output for Ruby, Python, Elixir, Go and more
  vcs
  Comments
• Why Deep Learning Works Even Though It Shouldn’t
  ai math
  Comments
• I Solved British Square
  games
  Comments
• You Reap What You Code
  devops
  Comments
• LTUI v2.2 released, A cross platform terminal ui library based on Lua
  lua programming release
  Comments
• Wikipedia's self-hosted CDN
  distributed scaling
  Comments

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

• among-sus — Text-mode Among Us recreation
  games
  Comments
• Add tag for the Julia language
  meta
  Comments
• Why I Chose Emacs as My New Text Editor
  emacs
  Comments
• Combating abuse in Matrix - without backdoors
  crypto law
  Comments
• Semigroups and Monoids
  math plt programming
  Comments
• Discord Desktop app RCE
  browsers security
  Comments
• JuliaMono
  design programming release
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Replacing FreshRSS With Miniflux
  web
  Comments
• Kakoune Community Survey #01 — For anybody who's ever used the Kakoune code editor
  culture
  Comments
• rdrview: Firefox Reader View as a Linux command line tool
  c linux
  Comments
• Emacs User Survey (2020)
  emacs
  Comments

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

• OpenBSD 6.8
  openbsd release
  Comments
• BetterThanJson
  programming
  Comments
• C++ Deserves Its Bad Reputation
  c++ go
  Comments
• Are out parameters idiomatic in Rust?
  rust
  Comments
• We deleted the production database by accident
  devops
  Comments
• Killing the Walk Monster
  video ai games
  Comments
• Cursed Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• How Samsung phones force Mainland China DNS service upon Hong Kong WiFi users (Part 1)
  reversing
  Comments
• Search personal websites
  web
  Comments
• Here's What I've Learned about Svelte, Tailwind, FastAPI over the Past 10 Days
  web
  Comments
• The Difficulties of Tracking Running Processes on Linux
  linux
  Comments
• Looks Like It [Perceptual hash algorithms]
  compsci
  Comments

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

• delta - a viewer for diffs with syntax highlighting
  programming
  Comments
• So you want to build an embedded Linux system?
  hardware linux
  Comments
• GNU Jami "Together" release - enriched video conferencing, Rendezvous points, account management
  release
  Comments
• What if we had Local-First Software?
  scaling
  Comments
• What Everyone Knows and What No One Knows
  education math
  Comments
• Self-hosting Git with cgit
  vcs
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• MyST - Markedly Structured Text
  programming
  Comments
• More Taste: Less Greed? or Sending UNIX to the Fat Farm (1998)
  pdf unix
  Comments
• Names and Identities Change – You Should Design for That
  practices
  Comments
• What they don't tell you about demand paging in school
  linux osdev
  Comments
• whatsxmpp - a WhatsApp (Web) transport for XMPP
  culture distributed lisp
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 17, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• LISP From Nothing
  book lisp
  Comments
• Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd
  mac
  Comments
• Zig heading toward a self-hosting compiler
  compilers
  Comments
• Who's hiring? Q4Y2020
  ask job
  Comments
• Nokia Composer in 512 bytes
  javascript programming
  Comments
• New JSON encoder for Haskell that is up to 3x faster than "aeson"
  haskell
  Comments
• Announcing HashiCorp Waypoint
  release
  Comments
• Announcing Tokio 0.3 and the path to 1.0
  rust
  Comments
• Nim 1.4
  programming release
  Comments
• NixCon Live (2020)
  event
  Comments
• Bottlenecked on Haskell's text library
  haskell performance
  Comments
• Does C++ still deserve the bad rap it has had for so long?
  c++
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 16, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• API pagination design
  programming
  Comments
• Unifying the Technical Interview
  programming
  Comments
• It’s Time to Say Goodbye to Docker
  devops linux
  Comments
• Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
  browsers
  Comments
• falsetickers, truechimers, grandmasters, and popcorns spikes: the complex world of clock sync
  devops
  Comments
• Technology Is Heroin [2008]
  philosophy rant
  Comments
• Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD
  freebsd games
  Comments
• Add tag for the Zig programming language
  meta
  Comments
• LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction
  assembly
  Comments
• 40 milliseconds of latency that just would not go away
  networking
  Comments
• BleedingTooth: Linux Bluetooth Zero-Click Remote Code Execution
  linux security
  Comments
• The Making of Monkey Island (30th Anniversary Documentary)
  video games historical
  Comments