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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 7, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Memoirs from the old web: IE's crazy content rating system
  historical web
  Comments
• Hostnames and usernames to reserve (2015)
  practices security
  Comments
• Discord Should Remove Usernames Entirely
  scaling
  Comments
• Crystal the language for humans
  programming
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• A kernel without buffer heads
  linux
  Comments
• Merklizing the key/value store for fun and profit
  compsci distributed merkle-trees
  Comments
• WebGPU: Rotating Cube
  show browsers graphics
  Comments
• I checked if browsers could cache all bookmarked pages locally
  browsers python
  Comments
• Constructing human-grade parsers
  plt
  Comments
• How unity builds lurked into the Firefox Build System
  browsers c++
  Comments
• On the security of the Linux disk encryption LUKS
  cryptography security
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• the zen of forth
  plt programming
  Comments
• pa - a simple password manager based on age
  unix
  Comments
• 26 languages in 25 days: Strategy, tactics, logistics
  programming
  Comments
• My age+YubiKeys Password Management Solution
  cryptography unix
  Comments
• BLAKE3: One Function, Fast Everywhere
  pdf cryptography merkle-trees
  Comments
• SQL + M4 = Composable SQL
  databases
  Comments
• ReDoS "vulnerabilities" and misaligned incentives
  rant security
  Comments
• The ultimate single-page app
  web
  Comments
• Actually using ed (2012)
  unix
  Comments
• Advent of Code 2022 on a MikroMikko 4TT m326
  c++ performance
  Comments
• lchat 1.0 - suckless ii chat frontend
  release unix
  Comments
• Are we web yet? Yes, and it's freaking fast
  rust
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Introducing muxfs -- a mirroring, checksumming, and self-healing filesystem layer for OpenBSD
  merkle-trees openbsd
  Comments
• Erg: A Python-compatible statically typed language
  plt
  Comments
• Small script to scrub your GitHub
  privacy programming
  Comments
• Passgen: A password generator that uses a regex-like syntax to create secure passwords of any shape
  show c linux security
  Comments
• diy code hosting with gitea and fly.io
  devops vcs
  Comments
• Perceus: Garbage Free Reference Counting with Reuse
  pdf plt
  Comments
• On syntactic sugar
  practices
  Comments
• The C free() API means memory allocation must save some metadata
  c
  Comments
• Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science
  ai
  Comments
• Symlinks as mount portals: Abusing container mount points on MikroTik's RouterOS to gain code execution
  networking security
  Comments
• Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04
  assembly
  Comments
• What is Backoff For?
  distributed
  Comments

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

• Editing stuff in prod
  practices
  Comments
• Why I invented “dash encoding”, a new encoding scheme for URL paths
  python web
  Comments
• Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA
  privacy
  Comments
• How did you learn AWS?
  ask devops
  Comments
• Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998)
  historical osdev windows
  Comments
• Alfis: Alternative Free Identity System
  merkle-trees networking rust
  Comments
• Kensington Microware's System Saver
  historical
  Comments
• Untangling mechanized proofs
  formalmethods
  Comments
• Which browsers are best for privacy?
  browsers privacy
  Comments
• ReScript on Deno: Declarative Command Line Tools
  javascript
  Comments
• Web-dev advice for building a localhost app w/o a steep learning curve?
  ask web
  Comments
• CockroachDB: The Resilient Geo-Distributed SQL Database
  databases distributed
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 9, 2022 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My first impressions of web3
  merkle-trees
  Comments
• Lobsters battlestations and screenshots (2022)
  ask practices
  Comments
• good-cat, a cat that hates pipes
  show programming satire
  Comments
• Why was Pinball removed from Windows Vista? (2012)
  windows
  Comments
• Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network
  networking
  Comments
• Where is every IP Address?
  networking
  Comments
• Bevy 0.6 Released
  games release rust
  Comments
• Towards a hybrid snapshot/patch version control system
  release rust vcs
  Comments
• Shell Eval
  unix
  Comments
• Porting a Poker Hand Evaluator from C to Factor (2010)
  programming
  Comments
• How Effective Is Copyleft with Commercial Licensing at Making Money?
  ask law
  Comments
• mouseable: replace a mouse or tackpad with the keyboard
  hardware
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How not to learn Rust
  rust
  Comments
• The Web3 Fraud
  distributed finance merkle-trees
  Comments
• mold 1.0
  release
  Comments
• Why I wrote my own Go HTTP client
  go
  Comments
• New Oberon+ to C99 transpiler for near native performance
  c compilers programming
  Comments
• Kinesis Advantage360 Ergonomic Keyboard
  hardware
  Comments
• Firefox 91ESR with Baseline Compiler/Baseline wasm for POWER9
  browsers javascript
  Comments
• Forth BBS 2, 1985 Bulletin Board software written in Forth
  historical programming
  Comments
• A brutally effective hash function in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• Building a simple room-based chat application in Nim (using HTMX)
  programming
  Comments
• A Beginner's Guide to Parsing in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 11, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Are Dockerfiles good enough?
  devops
  Comments
• By default, scp(1) now uses SFTP protocol
  linux openbsd unix
  Comments
• Proof-of-work based captcha which is lightweight, self-hosted and GPLv3 licensed
  a11y security wasm web
  Comments
• Thoughts on Clojure UI framework
  clojure
  Comments
• Tailscale at DeepSource
  devops networking security
  Comments
• Can we add the -graphy to the crypto tag?
  merkle-trees meta
  Comments
• Providing a Public Salary History Page
  job
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• W X Y Z
  graphics linux unix
  Comments
• Clearing up Myths about Ada
  programming
  Comments
• Arris Cable Modem Teardown
  hardware reversing
  Comments
• Exercism v3 has launched
  education
  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 20, 2021 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A day in the life of a professional software engineer
  satire
  Comments
• Maddy: Composable all-in-one mail server
  email go
  Comments
• State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
  design windows
  Comments
• Blurring the lines between shell and editor
  emacs programming
  Comments
• The Wrong Way to Switch Operating Systems on Your Server
  devops linux
  Comments
• Reverse engineering and fixing a bug in the firmware of a "ThinkPad Compact USB Keyboard with TrackPoint"
  reversing
  Comments
• Verkle trees
  compsci merkle-trees
  Comments
• What does First Normal Form actually mean?
  databases
  Comments
• Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source
  culture
  Comments
• Data-Oriented Design (Or Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP)
  performance practices programming
  Comments
• Video: Creating a macOS Droplet with AppleScript
  video mac
  Comments
• Sudoku as a SAT Problem (2006)
  pdf compsci
  Comments

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

• Have you ever hurt yourself from your own code?
  programming
  Comments
• Why I still like C and strongly dislike C++
  c c++
  Comments
• Freaking blockchains: How do they work?
  merkle-trees
  Comments
• Small things that make APIs a litte bit better for its users
  api programming
  Comments
• Why is JRuby Slow?
  java performance ruby
  Comments
• Summoning Cthulhu by Parsing HTML with Regular Expressions
  programming
  Comments
• How to to_string() in Rust
  rust
  Comments
• AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world
  ai math
  Comments
• JsonLogic
  plt
  Comments
• Here's an easier way to try Fuchsia OS on your computer
  osdev
  Comments
• immudb v1.0 - A key-value database with built-in cryptographic proof and verification
  crypto databases merkle-trees
  Comments
• Updating GCC GNAT (Ada) in pkgsrc/NetBSD
  netbsd programming unix
  Comments

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

• Magit 3.0 released
  emacs release vcs
  Comments
• Rust is a wave of the future
  rust
  Comments
• How we went from supporting 50 languages to all of them
  programming
  Comments
• rpg-cli - your filesystem as a dungeon
  games rust
  Comments
• Google is releasing Fuchsia OS, starting w/ 1st-gen Nest Hub
  osdev release
  Comments
• How software gets color wrong
  graphics
  Comments
• Marking up my Curriculum Vitae with Microformats2
  web
  Comments
• Ode to the Robot Butt
  erlang
  Comments
• RefinedC: Automating the Foundational Verification of C Code with Refined Ownership Types
  c formalmethods
  Comments
• Shrinking your Python application’s Docker image: an overview
  devops python
  Comments
• Zero to Monero - Second Edition
  pdf merkle-trees
  Comments
• Introducing Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug
  security
  Comments