The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why are we even doing all this?
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Linus Torvalds on AI-assisted kernel contributions
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Forgejo v17.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• On the technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC
  

  science
  

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• The road to iroh 1.0
  

  networking
  

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• Religious Studies In Software Engineering
  

  culture philosophy
  

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• The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
  

  cryptography
  

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• Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
  

  art
  

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• Epic's EAC2 v2 seems fairly easily bypassable
  

  linux security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.99.1
  

  release rust
  

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• Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from? (2009)
  

  historical windows
  

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• Gleam case exhaustiveness, as a fan
  

  compilers gleam
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sunsetting decomp.dev
  

  games reversing vibecoding
  

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• Haxy on Haxy
  

  practices vcs zig
  

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• JPEG XL vs AVIF for web use-cases
  

  compsci web
  

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• Awesome Gaming on Linux Without Cheating
  

  games linux security
  

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• The Costa GUI
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Better HTTP/1 connection reuse
  

  go
  

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• GitLab warns of max severity code execution vulnerability
  

  security vcs
  

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• My C23 Conventions
  

  c
  

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• Remote Attestation Should Not Be Tolerated
  

  culture security
  

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• We found a Tencent agent fleet
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• My Game's Procedural Dialogue System
  

  video games
  

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• End-to-end encrypted relays for OCapN
  

  distributed
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Introducing Firefox Enterprise
  

  browsers release web
  

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• Plasma 6.8 released (KDE's 30th birthday)
  

  linux release
  

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• Fancy Curl Sites
  

  web
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.96 “Bingsu”
  

  nix release
  

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• Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

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• What I Self-Host | Aspirational Self Hosting Guide
  

  devops linux osdev web
  

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• Redesigning source control at Anthropic
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

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• Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
  

  cryptography security
  

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• yet another place where a linux man page is inaccurate
  

  c linux
  

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• Apple: Switch to Safari (from Chrome)
  

  browsers
  

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• Factor 0.102 now available
  

  concatenative release
  

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• Creusot 0.14.0 release - Contracts for Rust, formally proved
  

  formalmethods release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Who is vfmaddrnd231pd??
  

  assembly
  

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• A plea not to use uv-build
  

  devops python
  

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• Did Ente Locker copy my code without attribution?
  

  law
  

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• The reverts will continue until morale improves
  

  databases
  

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• Speeding up the Unreal editor by… not using unnecessarily secure hash methods
  

  performance
  

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• Where is all the new, good software?
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• A slightly faster slimmer curl
  

  performance
  

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• your c is not standard c
  

  c
  

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• Lotus Improv on the NeXT
  

  historical
  

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• What I've been seeing lately (in software)
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Parsing JSON at tens of gigabytes per second… in Python
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 'AI' is Not a Tool
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Living in the Weimar era of Ruby
  

  ruby vibecoding
  

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• (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
  

  cryptography
  

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• Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Arena Allocators in C
  

  c
  

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• Fingerprints are the new cookies
  

  privacy
  

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• Finding a $90,000 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
  

  security
  

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• Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Highlights from "I spent 6 years developing a game in Rust and it just shipped, AMA" (2024)
  

  games rust
  

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• 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2
  

  devops linux
  

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• French supermarket chains say cyberattack forced refrigerator shutdown
  

  security
  

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• Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
  

  web zig
  

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