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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 26, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes
  c compilers plt
  Comments
• Even more hindsight on Vim, Helix and Kakoune
  vim
  Comments
• The State Of Garnet, 2023
  plt
  Comments
• There's still no silver bullet
  practices
  Comments
• RFC: Enforcing Bounds Safety in C (-fbounds-safety)
  c
  Comments
• Pamela Fox won't quit vi
  video practices
  Comments
• Fuck It, We'll Do It Live
  api javascript
  Comments
• Getting meaningful stack traces from Rust tests returning a Result
  rust testing
  Comments
• Implementing a distributed key-value store on top of implementing Raft in Go
  distributed go
  Comments
• rhombus-in-the-rough: A 2D RPG implemented in the Rhombus Racket dialect
  games lisp
  Comments
• IPinfo's Free IP Address Location Database
  networking programming
  Comments
• Super Colliding Nix Stores: Nix Flakes for Millions of Developers
  nix
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 18, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why KDE Plasma was chosen as the default desktop environment for Asahi Linux
  linux mac
  Comments
• Development notes from xkcd's "Gravity" and "Escape Speed"
  games javascript web
  Comments
• Inside DataDog’s $5M Outage
  distributed
  Comments
• Nickel language
  devops plt programming
  Comments
• Taking Rust to the Cloud: Blazingly Fast File Sharing
  programming rust
  Comments
• People want products, not projects
  philosophy
  Comments
• How Are Nullables Different From Mocks?
  testing
  Comments
• "Where have all the hackers gone?" + a way to discuss programming languages
  culture plt
  Comments
• Remembering John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language
  compsci
  Comments
• Logs Told Us It Was DNS, It Looked like DNS, It Had to Be DNS, It Wasn't DNS
  debugging distributed
  Comments
• OpenBSD template on QEMU/Proxmox
  devops openbsd virtualization
  Comments
• An Introduction to Bε -trees and Write-Optimization
  pdf databases
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 14, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Oils 0.15.0 - Big Contributions and More Concessions
  release unix
  Comments
• Iterator, Generator
  rust
  Comments
• This time, it feels different
  ai
  Comments
• Radical Simplicity in Technology
  practices programming
  Comments
• 50 years in filesystems: 1994
  historical osdev
  Comments
• What do you use as your current email provider? Why is it better than your previous?
  ask privacy
  Comments
• Redpanda’s official Jepsen report: What we fixed, and what we shouldn’t (2022)
  databases distributed testing
  Comments
• OpenBSD 7.3 on the es40 Dec Alpha emulator
  openbsd virtualization
  Comments
• Introducing Deopt Explorer
  javascript
  Comments
• The Age of a Software Project
  programming
  Comments
• CryptoHack
  cryptography
  Comments
• Debuginfod can index source code as well as debug symbols
  debugging linux
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 13, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• fq: jq for binary formats - tool, language and decoders for working with binary and text formats
  visualization
  Comments
• Racket version 8.9 is now available
  lisp release
  Comments
• First Rust Code Shows Up in the Windows 11 Kernel
  rust windows
  Comments
• Introducing "Implement DNS in a Weekend"
  networking python
  Comments
• Ruby 3.3.0-preview1 Released
  release ruby
  Comments
• Yaksha Programming Language
  plt
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West (2018)
  python
  Comments
• Building a baseline JIT for Lua automatically
  c++ compilers lua
  Comments
• vmtest: Run your tests in virtual machines
  linux testing
  Comments
• How I made Tracy 30× faster
  performance
  Comments
• A guide to test parametrization in Rust
  rust testing
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 27, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Full-Source Bootstrap: Building from source all the way down
  linux nix
  Comments
• sudo-rs: A memory safe implementation of sudo and su
  rust unix
  Comments
• Futexes: a translation dictionary
  api
  Comments
• More thoughts on a bootstrappable GHC
  haskell
  Comments
• You could have invented futexes
  c programming
  Comments
• The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection
  ai security
  Comments
• Characterizing Tech Debt
  practices programming
  Comments
• One decade later, GNOME still sucks
  linux rant
  Comments
• TigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time)
  video databases distributed testing wasm zig
  Comments
• urllib3 v2.0.0 is now generally available
  python
  Comments
• Review of Six Text Editors
  compsci practices
  Comments
• Delphi 11 and C++Builder 11 Community Editions Released
  c++ release
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 10, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• shell-maker, a maker of Emacs shells
  ai emacs
  Comments
• Two types of software engineers
  practices programming
  Comments
• botany: command line virtual plant buddy
  art
  Comments
• Can You Trust a Compiler to Optimize Your Code?
  compilers performance
  Comments
• IRB’s Built-in Measure (2021)
  ruby
  Comments
• Who invented vector clocks?
  distributed historical
  Comments
• Chased by One’s Own Tail
  plt
  Comments
• OpenVMS 9.2 for x86 is finally available for hobbyists
  osdev
  Comments
• Golang package with slog.Handler implementations for uber/zap, Sentry and OpenTelemetry trace events
  go
  Comments
• swift-evolution/0382: Expression Macros
  plt swift
  Comments
• Silent Fanless Dell Wyse 3030 LT FreeBSD Server
  freebsd
  Comments
• Namaka - Snapshot testing tool for Nix
  nix rust testing
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 1, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Janet for Mortals
  lisp programming
  Comments
• Helix 23.03
  release
  Comments
• Tailscale Funnel now available in beta
  networking
  Comments
• 'Modules Matter' Most for the Masses
  ml plt programming
  Comments
• Nim Version 2.0.0 RC2
  programming
  Comments
• Letting users block injected third-party DLLs in Firefox
  browsers windows
  Comments
• robotnix: Build Android (AOSP) using Nix
  android nix
  Comments
• How Kani helped find bugs in Hifitime
  formalmethods rust science testing
  Comments
• urler: command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation
  unix web
  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Linearity and Control [linear types proposal for Rust]
  plt rust
  Comments
• PonyDOS - A real-mode OS for everypony
  assembly osdev release satire
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 29, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bicycle
  science visualization
  Comments
• AWK technical notes
  programming
  Comments
• Tree Borrows: A new aliasing model for Rust
  plt rust
  Comments
• Nuenv: an experimental Nushell environment for Nix
  nix
  Comments
• Wang Word Processor - The Giant Killer
  historical
  Comments
• Go linters configuration, the right version
  go
  Comments
• My4TH - A minimalistic FORTH computer with discrete CPU
  hardware
  Comments
• In Praise of Vite
  web
  Comments
• Writing a Linux executable from scratch with x86_64-unknown-none and Rust
  linux rust
  Comments
• Random Fuzzy Thoughts
  distributed testing
  Comments
• How does AI change programming languages?
  ai compilers plt programming
  Comments
• Ice and Fire: How to read icicle and flame graphs
  performance programming visualization
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 17, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Portable Rusage Command
  unix
  Comments
• Docker is deleting Open Source organisations - what you need to know
  devops
  Comments
• "...an audiophile forum started debating which versions of memcpy had the highest sound quality"
  programming
  Comments
• Rust's Two Kinds of 'Assert' Make for Better Code
  programming
  Comments
• What is Deno and how to use its sandbox?
  javascript web
  Comments
• Precision, recall and why you shouldn’t crank up the warnings to 11
  programming
  Comments
• The Saga of the Color Brown in the Early Years of the PC
  historical
  Comments
• Quick VMs with NixOS
  nix virtualization
  Comments
• Analyzing multi-gigabyte JSON files locally
  programming python
  Comments
• Temporary lifetimes in Rust 2024
  rust
  Comments
• Wirepig – Mock HTTP and TCP deps with real sockets in Node.js tests
  javascript networking nodejs testing
  Comments
• Private DNS on Windows
  networking windows
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 8, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Discord, or the Death of Lore
  culture
  Comments
• Reliability: It's Not Great
  devops distributed
  Comments
• Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes
  historical
  Comments
• Nix journey part 1: My grand unified theory of Nix documentation
  nix
  Comments
• noogle - nix function exploring
  nix
  Comments
• When Zig is safer and faster than Rust
  rust zig
  Comments
• GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
  ai
  Comments
• How Discord Stores Trillions of Messages
  databases performance
  Comments
• Ooze: Mutation Testing Library for Golang
  go programming testing
  Comments
• RustPython: A Python (CPython >= 3.11.0) interpreter written in Rust
  python
  Comments
• A Vulnerability in Implementations of SHA-3, SHAKE, EdDSA, and Other NIST-Approved Algorithms
  cryptography
  Comments
• Another attempt at a “unit test”
  c practices testing
  Comments