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

• on abandoning the X server
  unix
  Comments
• The BEAM marches forward
  elixir erlang
  Comments
• Welcome Deno! Does this mean goodbye to Node.js?
  javascript programming
  Comments
• Useful shell prompt
  linux unix
  Comments
• Division by zero in type theory: a FAQ
  math plt
  Comments
• NixOS 20.09 Released
  osdev release
  Comments
• If not SPAs, What?
  web
  Comments
• Haskell: The Bad Parts, part 1
  haskell
  Comments
• NixOS on prgmr and Failing to Learn Nix (2018)
  linux
  Comments
• plocate, a much faster locate
  show c++ programming unix
  Comments
• Software correctness is a lot like flossing
  practices
  Comments
• hg prompt
  design vcs
  Comments

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

• Have you considered buying used hardware?
  hardware linux
  Comments
• Type in the exact number of machines to proceed
  devops
  Comments
• What Is Nix and Why You Should Use It
  devops
  Comments
• Hundred year mistakes
  c plt
  Comments
• Impact of using HTTP connection pooling for PHP applications at Wikipedia
  performance php
  Comments
• Fedora 33 released
  linux release
  Comments
• How you could have come up with Paxos yourself
  compsci distributed
  Comments
• Why I'm Tcl-ish
  programming
  Comments
• Pikchr: Documentation
  api c release visualization
  Comments
• ZSA Moonlander First Impressions
  hardware
  Comments
• No, C++ still isn't cutting it
  c++
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments

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

• A case study on vanilla web development
  javascript performance web
  Comments
• Standard ML in 2020
  ml
  Comments
• meli terminal mail client
  show email
  Comments
• I am Seriously Considering Going Back to Desktop Computers
  privacy rant
  Comments
• An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
  lisp
  Comments
• The Org Mode website has been Redesigned
  emacs
  Comments
• ninja: a simple way to do builds
  programming
  Comments
• Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD
  openbsd
  Comments
• ES modules in production: my experience so far
  browsers javascript
  Comments
• A Request to Security Researchers from illumos
  illumos security
  Comments
• Is COBOL holding you hostage with Math?
  historical practices
  Comments
• But Can It Run nytimes.com?
  linux
  Comments

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

• Rate my Homepage
  ask web
  Comments
• MacOS Nix Setup (an alternative to Homebrew)
  devops mac
  Comments
• 9Front "EMAILSCHADEN" released
  osdev release
  Comments
• It's Time To Admit It: The X.Org Server Is Abandonware
  unix
  Comments
• Reverse-Engineering YouTube (2017)
  dotnet reversing
  Comments
• I'm handing over maintenance of wlroots and sway to Simon Ser
  linux
  Comments
• Use a raspberry-pi 2 as a firewall with FreeBSD
  freebsd networking
  Comments
• Page Weight Matters (2012)
  practices web
  Comments
• Efficient text editing on a PDP-10
  compsci historical
  Comments
• Self-Rendering Markdown + LaTeX Document
  show javascript math web
  Comments
• My toothbrush streams gyroscope data
  hardware reversing security
  Comments
• Recommendations for shared hosting with managed email and databases?
  ask linux web
  Comments

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