The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming
  

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• A Decade of Slug
  

  graphics
  

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• Go Home, Windows EXE, You're Drunk
  

  linux windows
  

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• GNOME 50 released
  

  linux release
  

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• Introducing postmarketOS Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS
  

  linux mobile
  

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• Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool (just 2 files) to explore the small web
  

  show web
  

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• The Most Important Software Innovations (2021)
  

  historical
  

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• Seeing types where others don't
  

  plt
  

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• First package written in Algol 68 lands in Gentoo
  

  linux
  

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• The web in 1000 lines of C
  

  browsers c web
  

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• AI - Assassinating Intelligence
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
  

  hardware web
  

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

• Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control
  

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• Jepsen: MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The Gemini Protocol in 2026
  

  web
  

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• typenix: Full typing for Nix based on TypeScript
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• A sufficiently detailed spec is code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• "LinkedIn Speak" was added to Kagi Translate
  

  satire web
  

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• yes, all longest regex matches in linear time is possible
  

  compsci rust
  

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• When perfection is table stakes
  

  practices
  

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• The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved
  

  networking
  

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• Python 3.15’s JIT is now back on track
  

  performance plt python
  

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• Hacking the Xbox One
  

  video hardware security
  

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

• Try not to get scammed while looking for work
  

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• rack-mount hydroponics
  

  hardware
  

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• Why I Love FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Gleam v1.15.0 released
  

  gleam
  

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• Reviewing large changes with Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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• LLM time
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• AI is making CEOs delusional
  

  video rant vibecoding
  

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• Introducing pgtui, a Postgres TUI client
  

  databases rust
  

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• A Linux distribution designed to eliminate single points of failure
  

  linux privacy security
  

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• Good Haskell Libraries
  

  haskell
  

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• How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?
  

  finance law
  

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• A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm
  

  networking
  

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

• Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager
  

  graphics
  

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• tree-style invite systems reduce AI slop
  

  culture
  

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• Gothub is live
  

  openbsd vcs
  

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• Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age
  

  law linux vibecoding
  

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• Changes to OpenTTD distribution on Steam
  

  games
  

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• Sunsetting Jazzband
  

  python
  

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• Humanities in the Machine
  

  historical philosophy
  

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• Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
  

  distributed
  

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• Summary - Rust Project Perspectives on AI
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• One hundred curl graphs
  

  programming
  

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• A Preview of Coalton 0.2
  

  haskell lisp
  

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• Why Mathematica does not simplify Sinh[ArcCosh[x]]
  

  math
  

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

• The Compose key is magic
  

  linux
  

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• An ode to bzip
  

  compsci programming
  

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• XML is a cheap DSL
  

  programming
  

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• Baochip: What It Is, Why I'm Doing It Now, and How It Came About
  

  hardware
  

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• Libadwaita 1.9
  

  graphics release
  

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• I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
  

  culture practices
  

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• A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager)
  

  vim
  

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• Torturing rustc by Emulating HKTs, Causing an Inductive Cycle and Borking the Compiler
  

  rust
  

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• OpenClaw and the Dream of Free Labour
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Getting started with Claude for software development
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Reinventing Python's AsyncIO
  

  python
  

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• Awash in revisionist histories about Apple's web efforts, a look at the evidence
  

  browsers rant
  

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