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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 19, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ruby 3.2’s YJIT is Production-Ready
  ruby
  Comments
• u-config: a new, lean pkg-config clone
  c
  Comments
• tar creator+extractor in ~100 lines of prolog
  programming
  Comments
• Small VMs & Coroutines
  assembly
  Comments
• Typst: A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting
  pdf plt
  Comments
• Thonny, Python IDE for beginners
  python
  Comments
• No Start Menu for You
  debugging windows
  Comments
• Rust concepts I wish I learned earlier
  rust
  Comments
• The Metapict Blog
  graphics lisp math
  Comments
• wInd3x, the iPod Bootrom exploit 10 years too late
  reversing
  Comments
• Benchmarking Gone Wrong
  video performance
  Comments
• I made ChatGPT answer 50,000 trivia questions. Are we doomed?
  ai
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 18, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why We Need to Know LR and Recursive Descent Parsing Techniques
  compilers plt
  Comments
• How Memory Safety Approaches Speed Up and Slow Down Development Velocity
  java plt rust zig
  Comments
• Managers need to do a better job explaining the engineering paths available
  practices
  Comments
• KeyDecoder app lets you use your smartphone or tablet to decode your mechanical keys in seconds
  cryptography
  Comments
• The Growth of the OCaml Distribution
  devops ml
  Comments
• Design of Emacs in Rust
  emacs lisp rust
  Comments
• AI's Jurassic Park moment
  ai
  Comments
• Starting Box2D 3.0
  c c++
  Comments
• GitHub - cksystemsteaching/selfie: An educational software system of a tiny C compiler, a tiny RISC-V emulator, and a RISC-V hypervisor
  c compilers osdev
  Comments
• Feature Flags in a CI Pipeline
  devops
  Comments
• A brave new world: building glibc with LLVM
  linux
  Comments
• COCOMO II – Constructive Cost Model
  finance practices
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 17, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Servo to Advance in 2023
  rust web
  Comments
• In case you thought AIX had a future
  unix
  Comments
• Reverse Engineering a Neural Network's Clever Solution to Binary Addition
  ai
  Comments
• Over-engineering Your Thesis with Nix, Pandoc and make
  nix
  Comments
• Adventures in Mastolond
  distributed web
  Comments
• Sometimes I regret using CalVer
  practices
  Comments
• Type Checking If Expressions
  plt
  Comments
• Lobsters Battlestations and Screenshots (2023)
  ask practices
  Comments
• xonly on amd64: testing wanted
  openbsd security
  Comments
• Major standard library changes in Go 1.20
  go
  Comments
• Pipe: How the System Call That Ties Unix Together Came About
  historical unix
  Comments
• x86-64-v3: Mixed Bag of Performance
  performance
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 16, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Producing HTML using string templates has always been the wrong solution
  web
  Comments
• Revisiting KDE
  linux
  Comments
• Faster virtual machines: Speeding up programming language execution
  assembly c compilers performance plt
  Comments
• Thoughts on Zig
  video zig
  Comments
• MSI's (in)Secure Boot
  security
  Comments
• How to simulate a broken database connection for testing in Django
  databases python testing
  Comments
• How to improve Python packaging, or why 14 tools are at least 12 too many
  python
  Comments
• SAIC Galaxy 1100: a pre-CDE VUE of the PA-RISC with a security clearance
  historical
  Comments
• Running KDE Plasma on the RISC-V VisionFive-2
  hardware linux
  Comments
• My Bookmarklet Editor
  javascript programming web
  Comments
• Containerised Mastodon server on NixOS
  nix
  Comments
• gokrazy: instance-centric configuration released
  go
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 15, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What the hell is Forth?
  plt programming
  Comments
• Your tech stack is not the product
  practices
  Comments
• Formalizing f-strings
  python
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• The type system is a programmer's best friend
  plt practices
  Comments
• (2022) Marginalia's [Search] Index Reaches 100,000,000 Documents
  programming scaling
  Comments
• Using Github Copilot for unit testing
  ai testing
  Comments
• The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence
  math
  Comments
• Good theory books you would recommend?
  ask compsci
  Comments
• OpenSSH client side key management for better privacy and security
  linux security
  Comments
• Project Mage is an effort to build a power-user environment and a set of applications in Common Lisp
  emacs lisp vcs
  Comments
• Semantic search answers: Q&A against documentation with GPT3 + OpenAI embeddings
  ai
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 14, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Supporting the Use of Rust in the Chromium Project
  browsers c++ rust security
  Comments
• cloudflare/wildebeest: Wildebeest is an ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server
  programming
  Comments
• The Power of Prolog
  programming
  Comments
• Restic 0.15.0 Released
  release
  Comments
• Types are moving to the right
  plt
  Comments
• Announcing a stable release of sigstore-python
  cryptography python security
  Comments
• Examples of floating point problems
  compsci math
  Comments
• BASIC parsing difficulties in EndBASIC
  plt
  Comments
• systemd socket activation lesson learned
  rust systemd
  Comments
• Ubuntu 22.10 on Sipeed Lichee Risc-V board
  hardware linux
  Comments
• nvim + vim9script: how Rust made it happen
  video compilers rust testing vim
  Comments
• Stage Manager for the unimpressed: 1 Getting started
  design mac
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 13, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The yaml document from hell
  programming rant
  Comments
• What if writing tests was a joyful experience?
  testing
  Comments
• Conc: Better structured concurrency for Go
  go
  Comments
• Grayscale on 1-bit LCDs (2022)
  programming
  Comments
• Turn-based strategy card game Duelyst open-sourced
  games
  Comments
• Why Polars uses less memory than Pandas
  performance python
  Comments
• NetBSD ASCII flag for the bootloader
  art netbsd
  Comments
• The Go runtime isn't aware of CFS quotas
  go performance
  Comments
• Writing a TLA⁺ tree-sitter grammar: my foray into free software
  formalmethods
  Comments
• C-- (2008)
  assembly compilers
  Comments
• Pictures of a Working Garbage Collector
  programming unix
  Comments
• My org-roam workflows for taking notes and writing articles
  emacs
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 12, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sierra’s Macintosh Timebomb
  reversing
  Comments
• A look at Unison: a revolutionary programming language
  distributed plt
  Comments
• ULID Identifiers and ULID Tools Website
  databases programming
  Comments
• Copyright without years
  law
  Comments
• whoarethey: Determine Who Can Log In to an SSH Server
  security
  Comments
• Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
  api hardware mobile swift
  Comments
• A Comparison of SPARK with MISRA C and Frama-C
  pdf c formalmethods
  Comments
• What password schemes do you consider to be "memorable"?
  ask security
  Comments
• Nintendo DSi gets a browser exploit, almost 15 years after its release
  security
  Comments
• Another NaN-based tagging strategy for dynamic programming languages
  compilers performance plt
  Comments
• I wrote a library for creating basic HTTP-RPC servers in Go
  go
  Comments
• Emacs: org-present in style
  emacs
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 11, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Architecture diagrams should be code
  programming
  Comments
• HAMMER2 file system for NetBSD
  dragonflybsd netbsd
  Comments
• Safari is released to the world (2013)
  browsers historical mac
  Comments
• Compiled and Interpreted Languages: Two Ways of Saying Tomato
  compilers plt
  Comments
• OpenZFS - The Final Word in File Systems
  osdev
  Comments
• PEP 703 – Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython
  performance python
  Comments
• Surprising Consequences of macOS’s Environment Variable Sanitization
  mac security
  Comments
• Native technologists ask Apache Software Foundation to change name
  culture
  Comments
• Yet another keyboard post, or, introducing ErgoNICE
  hardware
  Comments
• Why deadlines are pointless and what to do instead
  practices
  Comments
• Pagination and the problem of the total result count
  databases performance
  Comments
• CVE-2022-46176: Cargo does not check SSH host keys
  rust security
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 10, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SourceHut will blacklist the Go module mirror
  go
  Comments
• Taking over a Dead IoT Company
  hardware
  Comments
• What’s New in Go 1.20, Part I: Language Changes
  go
  Comments
• What was the best CS paper you read in 2022?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Making Sorbet more incremental
  compilers plt
  Comments
• Three Lessons from Threema: Analysis of a Secure Messenger
  cryptography security
  Comments
• Feeds: The Only Civilised Way to Read Online
  culture web
  Comments
• Man page as a curriculum vitae
  design unix
  Comments
• A clean interface for org files (Emacs)
  emacs
  Comments
• On PBKDF2 iterations
  cryptography security
  Comments
• A comprehensive guide for the fastest possible Docker builds in human existence
  devops performance practices
  Comments
• Vulkan Video decoding
  graphics
  Comments