Daily Lobsters for 2026-08-09

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
  

  nix
  

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• They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore
  

  editors rant
  

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• some software talks i like
  

  programming
  

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• Assembly Hall of Shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance
  

  hardware
  

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• PS3 emulation is fast on ARM now
  

  video assembly performance
  

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• Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven
  

  practices python science
  

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• From constraint models to playable puzzle games
  

  programming
  

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• I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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• Amiga August 2026 Update
  

  historical osdev
  

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• ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’
  

  video historical
  

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• AI & The University
  

  video education vibecoding
  

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• "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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