Daily Lobsters for 2026-10-26

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Slurptop: A home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries
  

  art hardware
  

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• Balloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved
  

  c++
  

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• Vim Classic
  

  editors vim
  

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• POSIX wordexp(3) is dangerous
  

  c security
  

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• Partial Order Precedence
  

  zig
  

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• How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
  

  programming
  

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• Twelve years of distributed SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• An Incremental Approach to JIT Construction
  

  pdf compilers education
  

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• No Source Code? No Problem! What if you have to port a program, but all you have is a binary? (2003)
  

  games reversing
  

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• MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)
  

  systemd
  

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• This week's "node2shell" Brotli vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497) is exploitable in Python, other consumers of Brotli
  

  security web
  

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