Daily Lobsters for 2026-07-17

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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