Daily Lobsters for 2026-05-16

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

• LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
  

  meta philosophy
  

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• linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
  

  linux security
  

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• In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
  

  privacy security
  

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• Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
  

  web
  

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• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  

  culture practices
  

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• How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
  

  privacy
  

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• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
  

  css
  

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• Volkswagen- detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2015)
  

  javascript satire testing
  

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• PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs
  

  databases
  

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• SQL: Incorrect by Construction
  

  databases
  

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