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

• Why do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions?
  historical practices
  Comments
• Malicious Commits to PHPs Git Repository
  php security vcs
  Comments
• git's commit workflow is backwards, and encourages bad habits
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Language evangelists, why should I use [language]?
  ask web
  Comments
• A look at Self's object system
  programming
  Comments
• (Un)signed commits: how we found a (non) security bug in GitHub
  vcs
  Comments
• Theory and Practice of Sprixels
  compsci graphics
  Comments
• The end of TenFourFox and what I've learned from it
  browsers mac
  Comments
• Why you should (probably) not use submodules
  vcs
  Comments
• Gotchas in the Go Network Packages Defaults
  go performance
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• The byte order fallacy - Rob Pike
  c performance programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 29, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Pin and suffering
  rust
  Comments
• Developer tools can be magic. Instead, they collect dust
  plt programming
  Comments
• 1982: The Hobbit
  games historical
  Comments
• Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps
  compsci rust
  Comments
• DPDK adopts the C11 memory model
  hardware networking
  Comments
• Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy
  video c cryptocurrencies
  Comments
• Perl and XML in 2021: A few lessons learned
  perl
  Comments
• Muboard - Mathematics Scribbling Board
  show javascript math release web
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• The Moral Valence of Technical Decisions
  practices rant
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• Where to go to learn Rust in 2021
  rust
  Comments
• Apelife
  c
  Comments
• Your AI skills are worth less than you think (2019)
  ai finance
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 28, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How can we help fix replies on lobste.rs?
  ask meta
  Comments
• It doesn't work
  culture
  Comments
• Go+: Go designed for data science
  go
  Comments
• Quick Tour - Elvish Shell
  programming unix
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• socat
  devops
  Comments
• you're naming a file, but the name doesn't matter. what do you usually call it?
  programming
  Comments
• Why should you learn SPARQL? Wikidata
  databases
  Comments
• BPF for storage: an exokernel-inspired approach
  pdf linux performance
  Comments
• Is Inheritance That Evil?
  plt practices
  Comments
• Loop alignment in .NET 6
  assembly dotnet performance
  Comments
• Autotools: a tutorial
  pdf slides programming unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 27, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call
  security
  Comments
• Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
  devops linux
  Comments
• Factorio Is The Best Technical Interview We Have
  practices
  Comments
• How to implement a hash table (in C)
  c compsci
  Comments
• Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code
  python
  Comments
• Why the FBI can’t get your browsing history from Apple iCloud (and other scary stories)
  privacy security
  Comments
• The Miracle of become
  programming
  Comments
• What You Can Learn From Old Hard Drive Adverts
  historical
  Comments
• egg: Fast and Extensible Equality Saturation
  video compsci plt
  Comments
• new data structure in PicoLisp
  lisp
  Comments
• The Emacs Desktop Notification Center
  show emacs
  Comments
• Serving a single file over HTTP with Rust and Go
  go performance rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 26, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SQLite is not a toy database
  databases programming
  Comments
• Recovering a full PEM Private Key when half of it is redacted
  crypto
  Comments
• Announcing Rust 1.51.0
  release rust
  Comments
• Get better at programming by learning how things work
  practices programming
  Comments
• An introduction to typeclass metaprogramming
  haskell
  Comments
• Compile times, and why "the obvious" might not be so
  programming
  Comments
• Software effort estimation is mostly fake research
  programming
  Comments
• The Solution of the Zodiac Killer’s 340-Character Cipher
  math
  Comments
• 20 Intriguing, Unusual, and Goofy Programming Languages
  plt
  Comments
• About the Mob Account
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Cursed USB-C 2.0 device that behaves differently based on the orientation of the plug
  hardware
  Comments
• How to execute shellcodes from memory in Rust
  rust
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 25, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A "Better C" Benchmark
  c++ go rust zig
  Comments
• Speculating the entire x86-64 Instruction Set In Seconds with This One Weird Trick
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Fossil Chat
  vcs
  Comments
• Yahoo Pipes (2009)
  programming
  Comments
• Basic Animation in J
  video apl graphics
  Comments
• Donald Knuth’s “Algorithm D”, its implementation in “Hacker’s Delight”, and elsewhere
  assembly c go performance
  Comments
• Fully-Featured FM Synthesizer in the Browser made with Rust, Web Audio, and SIMD WebAssembly
  show browsers rust wasm web
  Comments
• Computational Algebraic Topology
  pdf math
  Comments
• Dependency on mimemagic 0.3.x no longer valid
  law ruby
  Comments
• GeoGuessing with Deep Learning
  ai programming
  Comments
• esoteric.codes
  art programming
  Comments
• Novell Meets Apple: How MacOS Nearly Went Intel in 1992
  historical mac
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 24, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Plan 9 from Bell Labs in Cyberspace
  release
  Comments
• Crystal 1.0 - What to expect
  programming
  Comments
• My thoughts about editors in (early) 2021
  emacs vim
  Comments
• I finally escaped Node (and you can too)
  elixir nodejs
  Comments
• ZGC What’s new in JDK 16
  java
  Comments
• Automatic video editing
  graphics
  Comments
• ohmyksh - a framework for expanding OpenBSD’s ksh
  openbsd
  Comments
• The worst so-called “best practice” for Docker
  devops rant security
  Comments
• Plan 9 Historical Releases
  historical unix
  Comments
• Safe Systems Programming in Rust
  plt rust
  Comments
• SSH Keygen: a 2021 update
  crypto ruby
  Comments
• How to create a 1M record table with a single query
  databases
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 23, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Really leaving the Linux desktop behind
  linux rant
  Comments
• Getting Drunk with Datalog
  programming
  Comments
• Firefox 87 trims HTTP Referrers by default to protect user privacy
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• There is no such thing as a functional programming language
  plt
  Comments
• Darker Corners of Go
  go
  Comments
• B2 web UI seems to submit files to facebook
  privacy
  Comments
• Export Telegram group chats into static websites
  programming python
  Comments
• Vitals: a tiny macOS process monitor
  mac release
  Comments
• Interview with curl creator & software developer Daniel Stenberg
  person
  Comments
• Choosing a language to replace Javascript (and why it's F#)
  dotnet javascript ml web
  Comments
• Drawing GNOME App Mockups
  design
  Comments
• History of ZFS – Part 1: The Birth of ZFS
  unix
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 22, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Godot Engine Web Editor
  browsers graphics wasm
  Comments
• A look back at asynchronous Rust
  rust
  Comments
• An Ode to Stable Interfaces: R and R Core Deserve So Much Praise
  api programming
  Comments
• Release of Oil 0.8.8
  programming release unix
  Comments
• ARM gcc may generate illegal instructions in place of integer division by zero
  c
  Comments
• What have you failed to build?
  ask programming
  Comments
• When you have too much memory for SheepShaver
  historical virtualization
  Comments
• Generalized Dollar Cost Averaging
  finance math
  Comments
• Next Generation Shell 0.2.11 is out
  programming release
  Comments
• Diagrams for Penrose Tiles
  art graphics haskell math
  Comments
• Software Design for Flexibility
  book compsci lisp programming
  Comments
• FreeBSD 13.0-RC3 Now Available
  freebsd release
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 21, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How safe is zig?
  c rust zig
  Comments
• A working D compiler on OpenBSD
  d openbsd
  Comments
• Speeding up SQL queries by orders of magnitude using UNION
  databases performance
  Comments
• curl is 23 years old today
  historical
  Comments
• System Shock
  games historical
  Comments
• Response to flatkill.org
  linux
  Comments
• Securing my IRC (irssi, screen) session with dtach and systemd
  linux
  Comments
• Migrating from LastPass to pass
  android security vcs
  Comments
• LibrePlanet 2021
  event
  Comments
• ZPL: A cross-platform header-only C99 toolkit
  c
  Comments
• undocumented instructions in Intel CPUs which control microarchitectural state including microcode
  hardware reversing security
  Comments
• Emoji Pixel Art
  javascript web
  Comments