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

• Linus Torvalds on LLM usage in kernel development
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite is Going
  

  compilers rust zig
  

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• Forgejo v16.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled, Documented in FBI Case Filing
  

  security windows
  

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• Detecting Full Table Scans With SQLite
  

  databases ruby
  

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• Your AI Is Not a Tool
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Abstracting effects with continuations
  

  gleam
  

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• AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
  

  ai
  

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• Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
  

  release retrocomputing
  

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• How C++20 improved the for-loop syntax
  

  c++
  

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• Empathy and delight mean nothing when the software is disrespectful
  

  design programming
  

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• Guix: creating a package from a binary
  

  nix
  

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

• You should probably check on your smart appliances
  

  security web
  

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• SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
  

  databases
  

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• FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
  

  freebsd
  

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• How I use HTMX with Go
  

  go web
  

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• The Memory Heist
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• qr-swastika-avoider v0.1.0
  

  rust
  

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• C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake
  

  c
  

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• How my images are dithered
  

  graphics
  

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• The Tower Keeps Rising
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Low Resource Computing 2026
  

  event
  

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• Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
  

  games linux
  

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• a bunch of stuff i used to not know about K&R C
  

  c historical
  

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

• Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
  

  historical
  

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• The git history command deserves more attention
  

  vcs
  

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• Hating AI in 2026
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks
  

  visualization
  

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• git-absorb: git commit --fixup, but automatic
  

  vcs
  

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• whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
  

  hardware mac vibecoding
  

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• Engineering High-Performance Parsers with Data-Oriented Design
  

  performance
  

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• Control the ideas, not the code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Too many words about DIDs
  

  distributed web
  

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• 6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy
  

  performance rust
  

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• Job queues are deceptively tricky
  

  distributed practices
  

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• Go-flavored concurrency in C
  

  c go
  

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

• lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
  

  meta
  

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• Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if
  

  c performance
  

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• Just Let Me Write Digits
  

  a11y javascript web
  

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• Human Emacs
  

  emacs
  

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• crates.io: development update
  

  rust
  

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• IPv6 over drainage pipe
  

  culture hardware networking
  

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• A WWDC 26 Update on Building a Mac-assed App with SwiftUI
  

  swift
  

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• Hacker Fables - A satirical cyberpunk novella you can read as a man page
  

  book art satire
  

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• Know thine enemy: A critical engagement with AI-assisted software development
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Overhauled homelab
  

  hardware networking
  

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• How early SunOS did diskless workstations before NFS
  

  historical unix
  

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• Browsers Do Math Differently on Every OS; Anti-Bot Systems Read the Bits
  

  browsers privacy
  

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

• Where did my segfault go?
  

  c unix
  

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• Who does Anubis actually stop?
  

  web
  

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• Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial
  

  vcs
  

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• Good Tools Are Invisible
  

  editors practices vim
  

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• The Proportional Web
  

  design web
  

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• Closing a three-year-old issue using Rust arenas
  

  performance rust
  

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• In defense of not understanding your codebase
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Working With AI: A Concrete Example
  

  vibecoding web
  

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• ghostel.el - Terminal emulator powered by libghostty
  

  emacs
  

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• reaction: A daemon that scans program outputs for repeated patterns, and takes action
  

  security
  

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• Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs
  

  retrocomputing web
  

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• Gamedev in Zig is actually pretty good (2025)
  

  video zig
  

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