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

• I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong
  

  c programming
  

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• Every Fucking Website
  

  satire vibecoding web
  

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• A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"
  

  a11y culture hardware
  

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• Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage
  

  rust
  

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• A Tour of Magit's Status Interface
  

  emacs vcs
  

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• Recap: Software Should Work 2026
  

  event programming
  

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• Zig Day Seattle, WA #3
  

  event zig
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode
  

  nix
  

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• What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI
  

  python
  

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• A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
  

  assembly c++ math performance
  

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• How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
  

  games networking programming
  

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• Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends
  

  vcs
  

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

• Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
  

  browsers
  

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• ActivityPub Won by Being Boring
  

  distributed web
  

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• Why I remain a skeptic
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Everything is about to “go dark”
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine
  

  games
  

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• RVA23 vs ARMv9 a Small Experiment
  

  assembly
  

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• Comments in the code vs PR description
  

  practices vcs
  

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• There Is Still No Silver Bullet
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• We implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in the Linux Kernel, Musl Libc, and BGP
  

  linux networking vibecoding
  

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• How Is Compression Prediction?
  

  math
  

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• Computing graph dominators
  

  compsci
  

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• Serokell’s Work on GHC: Dependent Types, Part 5
  

  haskell
  

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

• Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess"
  

  practices
  

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• OxiSH: SSH server written in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Curl Performance
  

  performance
  

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• A preview of Roc 0.1.0
  

  video compsci
  

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• The Art of CHIP-8
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024)
  

  video databases
  

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• A long division story
  

  compsci math
  

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• RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
  

  assembly compilers rant
  

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• SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public git repositories
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
  

  design email
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Write for people
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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

• python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
  

  python
  

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• EuroZig
  

  zig
  

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• GitHub Stacks in Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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• I want extern "fil-c"
  

  c rust
  

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• Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
  

  databases
  

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• On AI Coding and Its Discontents
  

  practices testing vibecoding
  

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• Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
  

  graphics web
  

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• Unlocking _everything_ on the CPU with DRAM scrambling
  

  security
  

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• A critical review of Xilem in 2026
  

  rust
  

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• My Anti AI computer
  

  vibecoding
  

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• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• What’s new in Flutter 3.47
  

  release
  

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

• I'm done using AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
  

  databases
  

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• Guide to (not) fucking up QR codes
  

  design
  

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• I hate packaging my software for Linux
  

  linux
  

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• The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of
  

  performance
  

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• Compression is prediction
  

  programming
  

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• Analyzing My Lobsters Submissions
  

  visualization
  

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• Introducing Automatic Key Verification
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem
  

  devops security
  

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• Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
  

  compilers games
  

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• Making [etched] holograms with a pen plotter
  

  show art graphics math
  

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• fearless_simd v0.7: 64-bit integers, improved generics, SSE2, and upcoming v1.0
  

  release rust
  

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