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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 1, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• rethinking openbsd security
  openbsd security
  Comments
• Dark Sky Acquired by Apple, announced plans to shut down outside of iOS
  android ios web
  Comments
• The end of an Era
  linux
  Comments
• Async/Await | Writing an OS in Rust
  osdev rust
  Comments
• Writing a Low-Level Sound System — You Can Do It
  programming
  Comments
• Why Lead Free Solder is Better For You
  hardware
  Comments
• State Machines in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Multicore OCaml: March 2020 update
  ml
  Comments
• psycopg3: a first report
  databases python
  Comments
• Option to disable or hide karma points?
  meta
  Comments
• Year of Clojure on the Desktop
  clojure
  Comments
• Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown
  distributed
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 31, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• US Government Wages War on Encryption
  crypto privacy
  Comments
• WireGuard 1.0.0 for Linux 5.6 Released
  linux networking release
  Comments
• Curses City, a simple ASCII Sim City style game using ncurses
  games
  Comments
• How to blog anonymously
  privacy
  Comments
• Against Process
  practices
  Comments
• Message from ACM Regarding Open Access to ACM Digital Library during Coronavirus
  compsci
  Comments
• The Books That Every Programmer Should Read
  programming
  Comments
• GUI toolkits for Common Lisp: Tk, Qt4, Gtk3, IUP, Nuklear - the CL Cookbook
  lisp
  Comments
• X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
  linux security
  Comments
• xmake v2.3.2 released, Build as fast as ninja
  c c++ lua programming release
  Comments
• Ogg objections (2010)
  programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 30, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A pandemic of bubble maps
  visualization
  Comments
• Go Quirks
  go
  Comments
• Libravatar, a federated avatar hosting service
  show web
  Comments
• CVE-2020-8816 – Pi-hole Remote Code Execution
  php security unix
  Comments
• A Brief Introduction to Ice-Penetrating Radar
  math
  Comments
• default.css - my take at a classless CSS framework
  css web
  Comments
• I had to build a web scraper to buy groceries
  web
  Comments
• TrueOS (earlier PC-BSD) is Now Officially Dead
  freebsd
  Comments
• Effective C: An Introduction to Professional C Programming
  book c
  Comments
• adhosts - The core of PiHole in a single minimal script
  networking privacy security
  Comments
• There is No “Linux” Platform (Part 2)
  linux practices
  Comments
• Free and Open Source HTML5 Speedtest
  programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 29, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What static site generator and theme do you use for your blog
  ask programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Companies that work like Basecamp?
  ask job
  Comments
• Chapel Comes of Age: A Language for Productivity, Parallelism, and Performance
  pdf slides performance plt
  Comments
• jo - Construct JSON objects on the command-line
  practices
  Comments
• Getting root on a Zyxel VMG8825-T50 router
  security
  Comments
• dte - text editor
  unix
  Comments
• What resources would you recommend to learn socket programming ?
  ask networking python
  Comments
• A Deep dive into OpenBSD malloc(3) internals
  c openbsd programming security
  Comments
• New grad vs senior dev
  performance programming
  Comments
• How To Make Life Easier When Using Git
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Adjusting RuboCop’s Defaults
  ruby
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 28, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It's not what programming languages do, it's what they shepherd you to
  programming
  Comments
• Zoom iOS app sending data to Facebook even w/o FB account
  ios security
  Comments
• Keyboard recommendations
  ask hardware
  Comments
• The exFAT filesystem is coming to Linux—Paragon software’s not happy about it
  linux osdev
  Comments
• Static analysis in GCC 10
  c
  Comments
• Lightweight Linux VMs on NixOS
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• The polygons of DOOM: PSX
  games graphics historical reversing
  Comments
• Amiga Machine Code Course
  assembly historical
  Comments
• Dumping MiniDisc Media
  hardware
  Comments
• Natural Language Principles in Perl
  perl plt
  Comments
• Setting Up Git Identities
  vcs
  Comments
• (2015) Embedding LuaJIT in 30 minutes (or so)
  c lua
  Comments

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

• 10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
  historical plt
  Comments
• MeiliSearch: Zero config alternative to ElasticSearch
  programming rust
  Comments
• A "living" Linux process with no memory
  assembly c linux
  Comments
• Hello World UEFI application
  assembly
  Comments
• Dockerized folding@home client, with Nvidia GPU support
  distributed
  Comments
• 4K display for remote work from home
  ask hardware
  Comments
• Crossbow 0.9.0
  c release unix web
  Comments
• Taking You Down To Tilde Town
  culture unix web
  Comments
• Migrating From Authy to Bitwarden for 2FA Codes
  security
  Comments
• Booting from an FFS2 filesystem
  openbsd
  Comments
• Pentesting a banking FTP service
  reversing security
  Comments
• Oil 0.8.pre3 - A Line Editor and a Continuous Build
  programming release unix
  Comments

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

• Apple just killed Offline Web Apps while purporting to protect your privacy: why that’s A Bad Thing and why you should care
  mac web
  Comments
• Why We Started Putting Unpopular Assets in Memory
  scaling
  Comments
• A Crash Course on ML Modules
  haskell ml plt
  Comments
• Mixing Gleam & Elixir
  elixir ml
  Comments
• Should I use Vim full-time?
  vim
  Comments
• Speeding up Linux disk encryption
  crypto linux performance
  Comments
• LLVM 10.0.0 Release
  compilers release
  Comments
• How are Unix pipes implemented?
  unix
  Comments
• Yak Shaving - Swift Edition
  swift
  Comments
• Sync Postgres data between databases
  databases
  Comments
• mit-pdos/xv6-riscv - Xv6 for RISC-V
  osdev unix
  Comments
• Reducing memory consumption in librsvg, part 3: slack space in Bézier paths - Federico's Blog
  performance rust
  Comments

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

• `zig cc`: a Powerful Drop-In Replacement for GCC/Clang - Andrew Kelley
  c compilers
  Comments
• Svelte is unappealing
  web
  Comments
• Concurrent programming, with examples
  c programming
  Comments
• Why we use 1U servers, and the two sides of them
  hardware
  Comments
• Resilience: An Ad Blocker Without Compromises
  privacy
  Comments
• What are you working on this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• An SRE's guide to Memcached for building scalable applications
  devops
  Comments
• An in-depth Look at OCaml’s new “Best-fit” Garbage Collector Strategy
  ml
  Comments
• So You Want Git for Data?
  databases vcs
  Comments
• GHC 8.10.1 release notes
  haskell release
  Comments
• Another look at two Linux KASLR patches
  crypto linux security
  Comments
• The Geometry Engine: A VLSI Geometry System for Graphics (1982)
  pdf graphics hardware historical
  Comments

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

• I Want Decentralized Version Control for Structured Data
  databases vcs
  Comments
• Two Years With Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Ignoring bulk change commits with git blame
  vcs
  Comments
• How do you setup emacs?
  ask emacs
  Comments
• GodQL - God's Query Language
  databases philosophy satire
  Comments
• Understanding Google’s File System
  databases distributed
  Comments
• Avoiding the 'dangling else' language problem with mandatory block markers
  plt
  Comments
• Self-hosting a tiny git remote
  vcs
  Comments
• Remote buffer overflow DOS 0-day in Memcached 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 (latest)
  security
  Comments
• FreeBSD Linuxulator Explained
  freebsd
  Comments
• Three typefaces for mathematics (2007)
  pdf design math
  Comments
• An idea for generics at the OS level
  osdev plt
  Comments

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

• COVID-19 OSS HELP
  science
  Comments
• “Premature optimization is the root of all evil” is the root of evil
  performance rant
  Comments
• Learning embedded Rust by building RISC-V-powered robot - Part 1
  show hardware rust
  Comments
• Who's ready for more Networking History? - all about APPLETALK
  historical mac networking
  Comments
• Announcing F# 5 preview 1
  dotnet
  Comments
• Automate your iTerm layouts and session setup
  python
  Comments
• The Phix Programming Language
  programming
  Comments
• Inside a Titan missile guidance computer
  hardware historical
  Comments
• Math and coding resources for homeschooling
  education math programming
  Comments
• Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction
  math
  Comments
• Reverse engineering Blind’s API and client side encryption
  api reversing
  Comments
• The Original Sin Of A Software System
  practices
  Comments