The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Everybody's Lost Their Minds
  

  culture
  

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• I expected better from Google
  

  vibecoding
  

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• I Don't Like LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Golden Spike, and Resurrecting the Vale(n) Programming Language
  

  plt rust
  

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• Unicode 18.0.0
  

  release
  

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• OSRS Wiki and RuneLite are increasingly under strain from low-effort AI development
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Your Donations at Work: One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
  

  browsers web
  

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• Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans
  

  rust security
  

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• My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
  

  php
  

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• Why building a Rust LSP is hard
  

  compilers editors rust vibecoding
  

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• Reversing Factorio's RNG
  

  games math reversing
  

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• Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ‘broken wide open’ after 26 years
  

  reversing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A/I Shuts Down
  

  finance privacy
  

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• Some things Veloren does differently
  

  games graphics rust
  

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• Small Programming Tricks
  

  programming
  

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• Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
  

  rust
  

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• The end of verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru
  

  web
  

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• Forgery of C2PA on a Pixel 10
  

  cryptography security
  

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• JDK 27 has been released
  

  java release
  

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• Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• How to get a DOI for your blog posts
  

  web
  

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• PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook
  

  video art design
  

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• Introducing GNOME 51
  

  linux release
  

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• Why i'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• "Do You Still Read the Code?"
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Coreutils - rejected feature requests
  

  programming unix
  

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• GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview
  

  openbsd
  

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• CSS-Tricks in Limbo
  

  css web
  

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• A New Equal-Area Map for Interactive Computer Use (natively zooms to Mercator)
  

  math web
  

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• Converting a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
  

  hardware
  

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• GDScript: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts
  

  games programming
  

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• A Letter from a Machine Learning Engineer
  

  ai
  

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• Why Am I Still Programming
  

  video vibecoding
  

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• A Nix store is three functions
  

  nix
  

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• We are all Product Engineers now
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• There are only twelve 4x4 sudokus - and a cool trick for finding minimal subsets
  

  compsci math python
  

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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
  

  privacy
  

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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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