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

• Ascetic Computing
  

  practices
  

  Comments
• Git Is Not Fine
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• Announcing the Zulip Foundation
  

  programming
  

  Comments
• 5× faster fast_blur in image-rs
  

  math programming rust
  

  Comments
• Open Source Resistance
  

  practices
  

  Comments
• My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

  Comments
• The CTF scene is dead
  

  security vibecoding
  

  Comments
• A History of IDEs at Google
  

  editors programming
  

  Comments
• Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
  

  web windows
  

  Comments
• why use F# for scripting and automation?
  

  dotnet ml
  

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• A few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS
  

  css
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
  

  meta philosophy
  

  Comments
• linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
  

  linux security
  

  Comments
• In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
  

  ask programming
  

  Comments
• Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
  

  privacy security
  

  Comments
• Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
  

  logiclangs
  

  Comments
• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
  

  web
  

  Comments
• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  

  culture practices
  

  Comments
• How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
  

  privacy
  

  Comments
• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
  

  css
  

  Comments
• Volkswagen- detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2015)
  

  javascript satire testing
  

  Comments
• PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs
  

  databases
  

  Comments
• SQL: Incorrect by Construction
  

  databases
  

  Comments

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

• Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged
  

  javascript rust
  

  Comments
• Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
  

  design historical
  

  Comments
• Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
  

  browsers web
  

  Comments
• Hoot 0.9.0 released
  

  lisp release wasm
  

  Comments
• Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
  

  windows
  

  Comments
• Fragnesia: New Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit
  

  linux security
  

  Comments
• YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability
  

  security windows
  

  Comments
• 5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake
  

  plt web
  

  Comments
• Lua as a practical "soft-bedrock" language
  

  lua practices
  

  Comments
• Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability
  

  security
  

  Comments
• "This is written by an LLM" comments should be flagged as off-topic
  

  meta
  

  Comments
• httpx2 - Fork by Pydantic
  

  python
  

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

• Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered
  

  compsci performance
  

  Comments
• Erlang/OTP 29.0 Release
  

  erlang
  

  Comments
• The Most Emacs Bzr Saga
  

  emacs historical vcs
  

  Comments
• What is BusyBox?
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain
  

  web
  

  Comments
• MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop For The Rest Of Us
  

  hardware mac
  

  Comments
• The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
  

  retrocomputing
  

  Comments
• An update on East River Source Control availability
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• A detailed introduction to Kakoune for the aspiring power user
  

  editors
  

  Comments
• Killing a `Cow` made my JSON formatter 42% faster
  

  performance rust
  

  Comments
• Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic
  

  android security
  

  Comments

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

• taken
  

  privacy vibecoding web
  

  Comments
• Redis and the Cost of Ambition
  

  databases
  

  Comments
• Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
  

  hardware law
  

  Comments
• Zig vs Rust in 2026
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

  Comments
• Local AI Needs to be the Norm
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory
  

  video games graphics historical
  

  Comments
• Learning Software Architecture
  

  practices programming
  

  Comments
• iwp9 2026
  

  satire
  

  Comments
• The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics
  

  math
  

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• Popular Go library fsnotify raises supply chain alarms after maintainer access changes
  

  go security
  

  Comments
• Fighting Hyrum's Law in LLVM
  

  compilers practices
  

  Comments
• Programmable Whitelist-based Configs: Embedding Rye in Go
  

  programming
  

  Comments