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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 5, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
  networking satire unix
  Comments
• I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Winrate
  security
  Comments
• Git is simply too hard (2020)
  vcs
  Comments
• Writing a KVM hypervisor VMM in Python
  linux python virtualization
  Comments
• Proposing a struct syntax for Python
  python
  Comments
• Blink 1.0
  linux release virtualization
  Comments
• Plugins case study: Envoy WASM extensions
  wasm
  Comments
• How one of Vladimir Putin’s most prized hacking units got pwned by the FBI
  reversing security
  Comments
• RASCII: An advanced image to ASCII art generator tool & crate written in Rust
  art rust
  Comments
• Developing QEMU on Asahi Linux (or Arm in general)
  linux virtualization
  Comments
• Notes on std::optional’s monadic operations
  c++
  Comments
• RRR: A Succinct Rank/Select Index for Bit Vectors
  compsci programming
  Comments

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

• I think Zig is hard...but worth it
  zig
  Comments
• Programming with one or fewer hands
  ask a11y programming
  Comments
• We've learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack
  security
  Comments
• Makefile basics
  education
  Comments
• Hacking my “smart” toothbrush
  security
  Comments
• Introducing Iguana: extremely fast SIMD-optimized decompression
  compsci go
  Comments
• ko: Easy Go Containers
  go virtualization
  Comments
• Dev Home for Windows Developers
  programming release windows
  Comments
• Spleen 2.0.0 released with full CP437 support
  design release
  Comments
• Does a programming language with ML-style modules need packages?
  compsci plt
  Comments
• How's about Git?
  go vcs
  Comments
• WASIX, the Superset of WASI Supporting Threads, Processes and Sockets
  c rust wasm
  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 April 25, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 1Password is adding telemetry
  privacy security
  Comments
• deleting system32\curl.exe
  security windows
  Comments
• The shrinking role of semaphores
  linux
  Comments
• Why I use Nix and make(1) to develop
  nix
  Comments
• Haiku's (Kernel) Condition Variables API: Design & Implementation
  api osdev
  Comments
• QEMU version 8.0.0 released
  release virtualization
  Comments
• What are you doing this week?
  ask programming
  Comments
• Introducing tsc.nvim: Project-Wide Asynchronous TypeScript Type-Checking & Diagnostics for Neovim
  vim
  Comments
• A CTF Challenge using the Nintendo 3DS' unique features
  education reversing
  Comments
• Parallel Agile: Interesting Idea – Does It Work?
  practices
  Comments
• The many ways of converting FP32 to FP16
  math programming
  Comments
• OpenBSD: Managing an inverter/converter with NUT
  openbsd
  Comments

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

• libuv, but multi-threaded, but not really
  c performance
  Comments
• Running SunOS 4 in QEMU (SPARC)
  virtualization
  Comments
• Zig build system
  zig
  Comments
• Preview WASI support merged into Go compiler
  go wasm
  Comments
• Writing portable ARM64 assembly
  assembly
  Comments
• Reasonable Bootstrap
  compilers rust wasm zig
  Comments
• The early days of Linux
  historical linux
  Comments
• LLMs are showing significant promise at mediocre solutions to very general problems
  ai
  Comments
• A Different Internet
  person philosophy
  Comments
• Autometrics: a developer-first observability framework that writes queries for you
  debugging performance
  Comments
• Ziggifying Kilo
  c zig
  Comments
• Rethinking the Modern Web
  web
  Comments

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

• How we're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible
  browsers
  Comments
• I really like powershell
  windows
  Comments
• FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE Announcement
  freebsd release
  Comments
• Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Windows Defender bug that was killing Firefox performance
  browsers performance windows
  Comments
• Designing a Programming Language to Speedrun Advent of Code
  plt
  Comments
• Introducing Kotlin/Wasm
  kotlin plt wasm
  Comments
• Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time With curl, jq, and pizauth
  unix
  Comments
• Call for Comment: Rust Trademark Overview, FAQ and Policy April 2023
  law rust
  Comments
• Two Tips for Go’s pkgsite
  go
  Comments
• A Cryptographic Near Miss
  cryptography go security
  Comments
• Improved UNIX socket networking in QEMU 7.2
  networking virtualization
  Comments
• Verify Google Play App Purchase on Your Server
  android
  Comments

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 19, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Acropalypse: a serious privacy vulnerability in the Google Pixel's inbuilt screenshot editing tool
  security
  Comments
• How did Dennis Ritchie Produce his PhD Thesis? A Typographical Mystery
  pdf design historical
  Comments
• Bringing Rust to the Xen Project
  rust virtualization
  Comments
• 20 Years of Nix
  nix
  Comments
• AI Generations: ChatGPT-3 vs ChatGPT-4 on Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings
  ai art
  Comments
• Typescripting the technical interview
  javascript plt satire
  Comments
• To-Day — Simple daily todo checklist for Mac
  mac swift
  Comments
• Python and SLSA
  python security
  Comments
• New React docs pretend SPAs don't exist anymore
  javascript
  Comments
• A different approach to fuzzy finding
  show programming
  Comments
• PLATO: How an educational computer system from the ’60s shaped the future
  historical
  Comments
• Go slow to move fast
  practices
  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 15, 2023 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Text Rendering Hates You
  browsers
  Comments
• PostgreSQL 14 Internals book in English
  book databases
  Comments
• MNT Pocket Reform Campaign is Now Live on Crowd Supply
  hardware
  Comments
• zvisor: Zig-based Hypervisor (WIP)
  virtualization zig
  Comments
• Things DBs Don't Do - But Should
  databases distributed
  Comments
• Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
  web
  Comments
• LLaMA-rs: A Rust port of llama.cpp for fast LLaMA inference on CPU
  ai rust
  Comments
• Announcing FawltyDeps - a dependency checker for your Python code
  python release
  Comments
• Stanford Alpaca, and the acceleration of on-device large language model development
  ai
  Comments
• Emitting Safer Rust with C2Rust
  c rust
  Comments
• An experiment in elastically scaling a thread pool using a PID controller
  distributed haskell scaling
  Comments
• Modern language models refute Chomsky’s approach to language
  pdf ai
  Comments