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

• Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
  

  programming
  

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• The contagion of fear
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
  

  assembly historical
  

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• The case against JPEG XL
  

  compsci
  

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• Mergiraf: A syntax-aware git merge driver for a growing collection of programming languages and file formats
  

  programming vcs
  

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• Writing a Guix service from scratch, as a beginner
  

  nix
  

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• What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Purely Functional Operating Systems
  

  osdev programming
  

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• How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?
  

  c unix
  

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• I wish you the best in the Offline
  

  culture
  

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• Golang developers should try Odin
  

  programming
  

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• Can a regex match valid card numbers?
  

  compsci
  

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

• Watch what you say: Apple opens the door to a nightmare world of always-listening tech
  

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• heol
  

  lisp
  

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• Opusfived
  

  satire vibecoding
  

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• A Few Good Ideas in Programming Languages
  

  plt
  

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• what if my git host were a static site generator?
  

  javascript vcs web
  

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• Homebrew 7.0.0
  

  mac release
  

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• Make it anyway
  

  programming
  

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• The gpg.fail aftermath: On responsible disclosure, GPG, and the state of security in 2026 [32:37]
  

  video cryptography security
  

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• From Git to Fossil (2025)
  

  vcs
  

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• Useful Things Agents Can Do That Are Not Writing Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Switching to GNU Guix: A Beginner's Perspective
  

  nix
  

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

• OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
  

  ruby security vibecoding
  

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• ChiPass Release 2026.09.0
  

  release security
  

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• I made a build visualizer to understand Bun’s compile times
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Linux Zoom Client Proactively Reads X11 Clipboard
  

  linux security
  

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• Pandas Should Go Extinct
  

  databases python
  

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• Measuring the sloppiness of code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A list of macOS defaults commands with demos
  

  mac
  

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• xkcd-font: The xkcd font
  

  design
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Base84 deserves a place in file names
  

  linux
  

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• Optimizing a Spin-Lock
  

  c++
  

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• Tutorial for Septabee, a free DAW in the making for over 20,000 hours
  

  video art release
  

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

• Power grab
  

  culture linux
  

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• Feeling sad about AI
  

  programming
  

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• Soft-deprecating re.match()
  

  python
  

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• Models Don't Go Rogue
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• It's not the YAML spec's fault, but
  

  historical
  

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• My HTML Boilerplate
  

  web
  

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• How CHERIoT Provides Strong and Usable Isolation Without an MMU
  

  hardware osdev security
  

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• An untrusted site can freeze a Mac using WebGPU
  

  browsers security
  

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• A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• evergarden
  

  design
  

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• Bastion of the Turbofish
  

  rust satire testing
  

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• Fastly Speedtest Test
  

  networking wasm
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th Birthday
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft
  

  rust
  

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• A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)
  

  security web
  

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• A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
  

  plt
  

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• Review a pull request by booting it
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• Xteink X4 Pro review
  

  hardware
  

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• The terrible menu bar in the Windows 11 Notepad
  

  rant windows
  

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• Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels
  

  rust
  

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• Analysing 2048 on a 3×3 board
  

  games
  

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• What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
  

  historical windows
  

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• Announcing the first Guix-Science release
  

  nix science
  

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• Forgejo 16.0.4 has a critical security bug fix (RCE - Remote Code Execution)
  

  security
  

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