The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
  

  philosophy privacy security
  

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• An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs
  

  emacs graphics
  

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• Hister - A private, full content search index that you control
  

  browsers web
  

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• A 2026 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
  

  rust
  

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• Linus Torvalds uses AI to debug an Intel GPU driver bug
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
  

  hardware rust
  

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• Stop Making TUIs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Are there any decent programs for pdf viewing and editing for Linux that replace Adobe Acrobat?
  

  ask linux programming
  

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• Programming Language Semantics and Memory Safety
  

  plt
  

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• My favorite Computer Science books, and why
  

  programming
  

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• It's OK. Do Your Thing
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You should never be angry at work
  

  practices
  

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• The cool things of Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
  

  distributed
  

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• Music theory for programmers
  

  art math
  

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• Turning My CASIO F-91W Into a Contactless Payment Device
  

  hardware
  

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• Compile-Time Improvements in LLVM 23
  

  compilers
  

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• Small, native web tricks worth remembering
  

  web
  

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• NetBSD and my life (2005)
  

  netbsd
  

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• rust-glancer: An alternative LSP for Rust with focus on low memory usage
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• Unfortunately you sometimes need to do the thing
  

  philosophy programming rust
  

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• Vibe coding personal apps in mid-2026
  

  vibecoding
  

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• There continue to be reasons for software to be slow
  

  performance vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
  

  security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.98.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Better Batteries
  

  plt programming
  

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• Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
  

  historical osdev retrocomputing
  

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• Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE
  

  linux osdev
  

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• Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
  

  rust
  

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• Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
  

  emacs
  

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• Opus is a minimal, statically-scoped Lisp dialect based on the semantics of f-expressions (the Kernel language)
  

  haskell lisp
  

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• Felony Bench: Be AI, Do Crime
  

  ai
  

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• Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk ̶m̶y̶ ̶e̶x̶ a friend, cause I can
  

  reversing
  

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• Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How a joke domain purchase turned into geopolitical warfare
  

  security
  

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• Supply chain attack on arrayref
  

  rust security
  

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• Bun 1.4
  

  javascript vibecoding
  

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• What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Ploopy A+ (external trackball)
  

  hardware
  

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• Reclaim the terminal
  

  rust unix
  

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• AliExpress keeps multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Why compiling Rust to WebAssembly is slow
  

  rust wasm
  

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• Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys
  

  programming
  

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• Solo: a .so loader for static Linux binaries
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped—Everyone Is Wrong
  

  assembly plt
  

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• Things I want in a modern relational query language
  

  databases plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• HTML Can Do That
  

  web
  

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• Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Mastodon 5.0: Laying the foundation
  

  design web
  

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• Kakoune code editor
  

  editors
  

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• Plain Text Accounting is Pretty Cool
  

  finance
  

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• Go 1.27 is released
  

  go release
  

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• Why I still hand write my commit messages
  

  practices vcs vibecoding
  

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• Introducing Microlighter
  

  javascript
  

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• Odin's New Inline Assembly Templates
  

  assembly plt programming
  

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• a filename when none exists
  

  programming
  

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• SQLite for Everything
  

  databases
  

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• Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
  

  video mac
  

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