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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 10, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Non-POSIX file systems
  historical
  Comments
• My Org Mode Flow
  emacs practices
  Comments
• Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
  hardware historical
  Comments
• How do Routers Work, Really?
  networking
  Comments
• Comments on Comments
  practices programming
  Comments
• Hacking Ethernet out of Fibre Channel cards
  hardware networking
  Comments
• danburzo/percollate: turn web pages into readable PDF, EPUB or HTML files from the command line
  show release web
  Comments
• Loko Scheme, an optimizing R6RS Scheme compiler
  lisp
  Comments
• What No Fan Has Seen Before: Remastering Deep Space Nine to Maximum Quality
  ai
  Comments
• The Road to Mutter & GNOME Shell 3.38
  linux
  Comments
• On finally learning to program at the age of 40
  programming
  Comments
• Cryptography Dispatches: NaCl Is Not a High-Level API
  crypto
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 9, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How to speed up the Rust compiler one last time
  compilers performance rust
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• Programming is a losers game
  practices programming
  Comments
• git/serve: A git server for Plan 9
  osdev programming vcs
  Comments
• A brief introduction to SCSI
  hardware
  Comments
• FVWM3
  release unix
  Comments
• Sinkholed (2019)
  networking security web
  Comments
• AVIF has landed
  graphics performance web
  Comments
• DOOM Eternal - Graphics Study
  graphics reversing
  Comments
• The case for comments in code
  practices programming
  Comments
• The Within Go Repo Layout
  go practices
  Comments
• URL query parameters and how laxness creates de facto requirements on the web
  web
  Comments
• Dynamic Typing and NaN Boxing
  c compilers programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 8, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Quare FreeBSD?
  freebsd linux
  Comments
• My thoughts about editors in 2020
  emacs practices vim
  Comments
• Lessons Learned from SSH Credential Honeypots
  security
  Comments
• Ink by Example
  show plt programming
  Comments
• Vim as an IDE (VimConf 2020 Talk)
  video vim
  Comments
• BitTorrent v2
  networking
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• kmonad 0.4.0 released
  haskell release
  Comments
• Things I Learnt from a Senior Software Engineer (2019)
  education practices
  Comments
• Database of Databases
  databases
  Comments
• .mod Sample Master
  art compsci historical
  Comments
• makesite.py - Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator
  programming python web
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 7, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Libvirt - The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013)
  devops
  Comments
• Elixir Is Not Ruby. Elixir Is Erlang
  elixir erlang programming ruby
  Comments
• Starflight
  games reversing
  Comments
• Hard to discover tips and apps for making macOS pleasant
  mac
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• Daniel J. Bernstein's IM2000 email proposal is not a good idea
  email
  Comments
• Rust on Haiku: the Case of the Disappearing Deceased Threads
  osdev rust
  Comments
• Compiling a Lisp to x86-64: Primitive unary functions
  assembly c compilers lisp
  Comments
• So Many Ways To Start An Xserver
  unix
  Comments
• New safety rules in C++ Core Check
  c++
  Comments
• Test smarter, not harder
  python testing
  Comments
• How to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations
  design visualization
  Comments
• Linux kernel security fixes spotted before release with side channel attack on...developer mailing lists
  linux security
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 6, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Teardown of Digital Pregnancy Test
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Why Mathematicians Should Stop Naming Things After Each Other
  math
  Comments
• Why GitHub Won't Help You With Hiring
  job practices
  Comments
• C++ vs Rust: an async Thread-per-Core story
  c++ programming rust
  Comments
• Modern C
  programming
  Comments
• Rust testing or verifying: Why not both?
  formalmethods rust
  Comments
• Minimal TOTP Generator in 20 Lines of Python
  show crypto python security
  Comments
• My Broadcast [The UNIX rwall problem]
  historical security unix
  Comments
• Massacring C Pointers (2018)
  c practices programming
  Comments
• Full-Text Search Battle: PostgreSQL vs Elasticsearch
  databases
  Comments
• Reducing SATA power consumption
  linux
  Comments
• Home Page - Metamath
  math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 5, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Winamp Skin Museum
  historical
  Comments
• Migrating from Mastodon to Pleroma
  devops
  Comments
• React is becoming a black box (2019)
  javascript
  Comments
• Program development in Limbo
  osdev programming
  Comments
• In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?
  unix
  Comments
• A Requiem for a Dying Operating System
  historical unix
  Comments
• IOMMU Support in Linux
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• If-Else Is a Poor Man’s Polymorphism
  practices programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Preserving data integrity: A ZFS-inspired storage system
  linux
  Comments
• Flowing Text Around Images
  css
  Comments
• Image Viewers on CP/M
  historical
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 4, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What is your take on checking return values?
  programming
  Comments
• GTFOBins
  security
  Comments
• Cerveau: a future-proof web app for notes
  show haskell
  Comments
• How I built a Keyboard/Video/Mouse switch for my two 4K monitors for $30
  hardware
  Comments
• Nyxt Browser 2.0.0 Pre-release
  browsers lisp
  Comments
• If everyone hates it, why is OOP still so widely spread?
  plt programming
  Comments
• Inside the HP Nanoprocessor: a high-speed processor that can't even add
  hardware historical
  Comments
• One Year of Verifpal: Understanding Verifpal’s Relationship With Cryptographic Protocol Security
  crypto formalmethods
  Comments
• Building OSKit
  osdev
  Comments
• How I hacked hundreds of companies through Google Groups
  privacy security
  Comments
• Halite III Bot Development Kit in Rust
  show games rust
  Comments
• One bash command to start the day
  python
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 3, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools
  rust
  Comments
• On Modern Hardware the Min-Max Heap beats a Binary Heap
  performance
  Comments
• Even in Go, concurrency is still not easy (with an example)
  go
  Comments
• E-mail gateways and gatekeeping
  email linux practices
  Comments
• Taking a look at Gerät 32620
  hardware historical reversing
  Comments
• The problem with C
  c c++ culture
  Comments
• GHC team is launching a call for volunteers to document undocumented compiler flags
  haskell
  Comments
• Some Property Testing Tricks
  rust testing
  Comments
• Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit (1996)
  assembly c security
  Comments
• Write Tracking for Nim (Part 2)
  plt
  Comments
• jsonptr: Using Wuffs' Memory-Safe, Zero-Allocation JSON Decoder
  programming
  Comments
• From Vector Spaces to Periodic Functions
  math
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 2, 2020 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• VALORANT's 128-Tick Servers
  games performance
  Comments
• Why 𝕟𝕚𝕩𝕖𝕣𝕤.𝕟𝕖𝕥 resolves to nixers.net
  a11y
  Comments
• Threat modelling case study: bicycles
  practices security
  Comments
• Modernizing the OpenBSD console
  openbsd
  Comments
• Supporting Linux kernel development in Rust
  linux rust
  Comments
• Intel MKL on AMD Zen
  performance
  Comments
• Htop forked to htop-dev, version 3.0.0 released with over 2 years of bug fixes and features
  linux unix
  Comments
• Apple Approved Malware
  mac security
  Comments
• Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like `jwt.io` and Online JSON Validators
  security
  Comments
• Introducing the Half type
  dotnet
  Comments
• How Arlo got injected into Ruby (2010)
  historical ruby
  Comments
• Building and Importing NixOS AMIs on EC2
  devops
  Comments

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

• JetBrains Mono: A free and open source typeface for developers
  programming
  Comments
• Don't get stuck
  practices
  Comments
• Very short functions are a code smell – an overview of the science on function length
  programming
  Comments
• The database I wish I had
  databases
  Comments
• Compiling a Lisp: Overture
  assembly c compilers
  Comments
• Build a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life
  compsci
  Comments
• Release Chez Scheme Version 9.5.4
  lisp release
  Comments
• WebRTC for the Curious
  api book web
  Comments
• The Recursive Universe
  compsci
  Comments
• Fix Linux not suspending on low battery level and prolong your battery life
  linux
  Comments
• A grim outlook on the future of browser add-ons
  browsers
  Comments
• Python ate my log message
  python
  Comments