The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4
  

  databases testing
  

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• The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen
  

  historical windows
  

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• Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions
  

  api programming
  

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• How hard is it to check for whitespace?
  

  java performance
  

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• The Kluever Maneuver
  

  testing
  

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• Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved
  

  science
  

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• Switch lowering in GCC
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Clojure/Conj 2026
  

  video clojure
  

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• Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert
  

  a11y rant vcs
  

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• Shrinking NixOS Ram footprint and resource requirements to the bare minimum
  

  nix
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 4 2.98.0 has been released
  

  release
  

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• Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
  

  linux
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Backdoors in Claude Code for VS, Cursor official extensions
  

  security
  

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• Do At-Proto Users Know This Is Public?
  

  privacy
  

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• If you love a website, back it up
  

  web
  

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• How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months
  

  compsci
  

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• London meetup
  

  event
  

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• No, npm, “estee” is not a typo of “testem”
  

  javascript
  

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• C2PA's eMudhra Moment
  

  cryptography security
  

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• The Future Trait Has A Missing State
  

  rust
  

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• Infinite Mac: BeOS
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• The federated code forge
  

  distributed vcs
  

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• Phorge
  

  php vcs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons?
  

  reversing
  

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• EMACS turns 50
  

  emacs historical
  

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• What the fox say?
  

  games
  

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• GitLab security incident: attempted exploitation of CVE-2026-97229
  

  linux security
  

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• NetBSD adds a new Emacs-like text editor called atto
  

  editors netbsd
  

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• The case of the 9 bit AES key
  

  cryptography reversing
  

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• Qwenputer: a fully functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
  

  ai
  

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• Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only
  

  security
  

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• My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Pair-coding Lobste.rs feat
  

  ask meta ruby
  

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• Shared password manager for families?
  

  ask security
  

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• Redox Ring Buffers Project Summary
  

  osdev
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• This is not sustainable
  

  security
  

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• Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
  

  cryptography mac
  

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• Ghostty 1.4.0
  

  release
  

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• AlpineBSD
  

  netbsd
  

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• Start Doing Graph Theory
  

  book math
  

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• Reminder: Lobsters NYC Meetup Tomorrow 5:30 at Walker's
  

  event
  

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• GOTO Considered Totally Sick (for error handling in C)
  

  c
  

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• Hoot 0.10.0 released
  

  lisp release
  

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• Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet Earth
  

  security
  

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• Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++
  

  c++ programming
  

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• The next circle of security hell
  

  linux security
  

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• Finding panics with Call Graph Analyzer
  

  compilers rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Python's experimental JIT to be removed
  

  python
  

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• Shitty Screenshare
  

  browsers web
  

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• The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
  

  pdf math
  

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• A faster way to compute signed 64-bit floor division by constants
  

  c++ performance
  

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• A fast and secure tar parser for the Rust ecosystem
  

  python rust
  

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• Four Months of Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Pharo 14 Released
  

  release
  

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• 1,447 emoji? We'll do it live
  

  design
  

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• Compile-Time Dependent Types
  

  ml plt
  

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• A stackless floodfill automation (2023)
  

  pdf compsci
  

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• Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident
  

  go
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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