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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 11, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Standard for better floating point numbers (Posits) has been ratified by the Posit Working Group
  hardware programming
  Comments
• Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want
  ai art
  Comments
• The Semantic Web is Dead - Long Live the Semantic Web
  databases web
  Comments
• How SQLite helps you do ACID
  databases
  Comments
• Test against what won't change
  testing
  Comments
• LZ_XOR
  graphics performance
  Comments
• Who's That Monoid?
  haskell
  Comments
• Beastie In For Checkup: Analyzing FreeBSD with LockDoc
  freebsd linux
  Comments
• Native-GUI distributed system in a tweet
  distributed mac
  Comments
• Never use anything except a pure UUID (Anti REGEX argument)
  practices
  Comments
• Stable Diffusion launch announcement
  ai
  Comments
• I tested the Node.js test runner, so you don’t have to
  nodejs testing
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 10, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The case against a C alternative
  c
  Comments
• Tailwind is an Anti-Pattern
  css web
  Comments
• Making a Video of a Single Window
  graphics unix
  Comments
• Simulating an Entire Car Engine (yes, it makes noise)
  video graphics
  Comments
• Avoiding space leaks at all costs
  haskell
  Comments
• A performance retrospective using Rust (part 1)
  performance rust
  Comments
• I Don’t Like Go’s Default HTTP Handlers
  go
  Comments
• The quick and practical "MSI" hash table
  c programming
  Comments
• CoPing with CoPilot
  education satire
  Comments
• Fixing Memory Exhaustion Bugs in My Golang Web App
  databases debugging go
  Comments
• Don’t call it a comeback: Why Java is still champ
  java
  Comments
• Federation vs. Clustering: Self-determination vs. distributed computing?
  distributed networking web
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 7, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Our roadmap for Nix
  nix
  Comments
• Kanye West's Stem Player - An engineering disaster
  hardware javascript
  Comments
• Why Programmers Can’t Stop Programs With Ctrl-C, but Used to Be Able To, and Why They Should Be Able to Again
  practices
  Comments
• NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography
  cryptography security
  Comments
• Cramming 'Papers, Please' Onto Phones
  games mobile
  Comments
• NetBSD 9.3 released
  netbsd release
  Comments
• Air quality station built with Elixir
  elixir
  Comments
• Rust Analyzer's structural search and replace
  rust
  Comments
• Stack frame layout on x86-64
  assembly programming
  Comments
• Monad Confusion and the Blurry Line Between Data and Computation
  haskell
  Comments
• how floating point works
  video math programming
  Comments
• I solved Matt Parker's Wordle puzzle 100000 times faster
  video performance programming
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 3, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go 1.19 Released
  go
  Comments
• Interneting Is Hard
  programming web
  Comments
• The tools I use to build my website
  web
  Comments
• The Slotted Counter Pattern
  databases distributed web
  Comments
• in which the word column has several meanings, none of them architectural
  a11y programming
  Comments
• Rust linux kernel development
  linux rust
  Comments
• C xor C++: Situations where the same code has different meaning in C and C++
  c c++
  Comments
• The best way to find performance bottlenecks: observing production
  performance
  Comments
• Crustaceans, what is the best quality Mac laptop?
  ask mac
  Comments
• Search less, browse more
  practices programming
  Comments
• flecs: A fast entity component system (ECS) for C & C++
  c c++ games
  Comments
• Generic Recursion Applied to Algebraic Graphs
  compsci haskell rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 1, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Carbon's most exciting feature is its calling convention
  c++ plt
  Comments
• Thoughts on static linking in Rust and how it affects distro maintainers
  linux rust
  Comments
• Reference Count, Don't Garbage Collect
  plt
  Comments
• Using Nix on macOS
  nix
  Comments
• A nice round-up of javascript spreadsheet-like grids
  javascript
  Comments
• SLJS: A true JS runtime written in rust that compiles to wasm
  javascript rust
  Comments
• Parallelising Huffman decoding and x86 disassembly by synchronising non-self-synchronising prefix codes
  programming
  Comments
• Type-Signature: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - but with types
  show elm haskell
  Comments
• ABC: A C compiler for printable x86 (2017)
  pdf video c compilers
  Comments
• New Clojure project quickstart
  clojure
  Comments
• An efficient key recovery attack on SIDH (preliminary version)
  cryptography
  Comments
• Load Testing: An Unorthodox Guide
  testing
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How to Freaking Find Great Developers By Having Them Read Code
  practices
  Comments
• Phrases in computing that might need retiring
  programming
  Comments
• Fully generic recursion in Rust
  compsci haskell rust
  Comments
• You Don’t Need Microservices
  practices scaling
  Comments
• libadwaita: Fixing Usability Problems on the Linux Desktop
  design linux
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Introducing the Livebook Desktop app
  elixir
  Comments
• PEP 659 – Specializing Adaptive Interpreter | peps.python.org
  performance python
  Comments
• CADtron: A gesture-based CAD environment
  design
  Comments
• Timsort — the fastest sorting algorithm you’ve never heard of
  performance
  Comments
• Why the Windows Registry sucks … technically (2010)
  windows
  Comments
• Roll your own JavaScript runtime
  javascript rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 24, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• finally. #embed in C
  c c++
  Comments
• The tar archive format, its extensions, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time
  unix
  Comments
• Microsoft FOSS Fund Winner: curl
  networking web
  Comments
• The joys and perils of beating C with Haskell: productionizing wc
  haskell
  Comments
• Formal CHERI: design-time proof of full-scale architecture security properties
  formalmethods hardware security
  Comments
• Why MS Word jumped from version 2 to version 6
  historical windows
  Comments
• LLVM backend for m88k architecture
  compilers
  Comments
• The Lazy Way to Solve Differential Equations
  haskell math
  Comments
• Kerf
  databases plt
  Comments
• Making sure that people use make_unique and make_shared to make your object
  c++
  Comments
• Solaris Linkers and Libraries Guide
  compilers
  Comments
• “Meta-circular” Static Types
  lisp plt
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 20, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL stripping
  privacy
  Comments
• The Rust Performance Book
  rust
  Comments
• How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
  api rant web
  Comments
• Monorepos and Forced Migrations
  practices vcs
  Comments
• Intel Microcode Decryptor
  assembly cryptography hardware security
  Comments
• Spartan Schema: Ultra-minimal JSON schemas with Typescript inference
  javascript plt
  Comments
• Elegant and performant recursion in Rust
  compsci haskell rust
  Comments
• Richard Feynman on Cargo Cult Science (1974)
  science
  Comments
• Soft Deletion Probably Isn't Worth It
  databases
  Comments
• Carbon language specification and documentation
  c c++ plt
  Comments
• Implementing a Toy Optimizer
  compilers plt
  Comments
• Keep docker containers alive during daemon downtime
  devops
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 16, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SearchHut is a curated free software search engine
  compsci
  Comments
• Robert-van-Engelen/tinylisp: Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself
  c lisp
  Comments
• Why Rust should not have provided `unwrap`
  rust
  Comments
• Writing and Running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
  mac
  Comments
• Lessons from Writing a Compiler
  plt
  Comments
• Arcan 0.6.2 – It’s all connected
  release
  Comments
• Why long-term plans don't work and how to fix them
  practices
  Comments
• State of the SqueakPhone
  mobile osdev systemd
  Comments
• effectful - an easy to use, performant extensible effects library
  haskell release
  Comments
• I made JCOF, an object notation which encodes data more efficiently than JSON
  show javascript plt
  Comments
• It's possible to run Doom inside of Doom
  programming
  Comments
• The ambivalence of assembly
  programming rant
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 14, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Six Programming Languages I'd Like to See
  compsci programming
  Comments
• Decompiler Explorer
  compilers reversing
  Comments
• My blog is a CTF challenge
  show security web
  Comments
• My business card runs Linux, yours can too
  hardware linux virtualization
  Comments
• Status of Python 3.11 release
  python release
  Comments
• The Problem with RISC-V V Mask Bits
  assembly hardware
  Comments
• Why CP/M didn't have directory separators, and what if it had got them?
  historical osdev
  Comments
• 21 Awesome Open-Source Haskell Projects
  haskell
  Comments
• OpenVMS 9.2 for x86 will be released tomorrow (2022-07-14), so exciting
  osdev release
  Comments
• Amazon DynamoDB: A Scalable, Predictably Performant, and Fully Managed NoSQL Database Service (2022)
  pdf databases historical
  Comments
• It's About Time (literally)
  video hardware
  Comments
• What are string_views and why should we use them?
  c++
  Comments