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 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
  

  ios
  

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• Rethinking Database Programming
  

  databases elm plt
  

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• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
  

  ai art
  

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• How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
  

  art
  

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• Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
  

  games historical reversing
  

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• Mojo is now open source
  

  plt
  

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• What software do you use daily in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• CSS: the bomb inside your inbox
  

  security
  

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• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
  

  hardware
  

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

• What is your favorite blog to read recently?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Gleam has mirrored its source code on tangled (an AT-protocol based forge)
  

  gleam vcs
  

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• Mathematicians still don’t know the fastest way to multiply numbers
  

  math
  

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• wp2shell: Pre Authentication RCE in WordPress Core
  

  security web
  

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• The computer at the bottom of a canal
  

  historical
  

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• The death and rebirth of my home server
  

  linux nix
  

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• Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
  

  practices web
  

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• More emulation goodness, an Intel Itanium (IA-64) emulator that boots Windows
  

  retrocomputing virtualization
  

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• Haunt 0.4.0 released
  

  lisp
  

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• How does Pangram work?
  

  ai
  

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• PowerShell over SSH in 2026: OpenSSH on Windows, Key Auth, and PowerShell 7 Remoting
  

  windows
  

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• The Java Story | The Official Documentary
  

  video java
  

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

• Linus Torvalds on LLM usage in kernel development
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite is Going
  

  compilers rust zig
  

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• Forgejo v16.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled, Documented in FBI Case Filing
  

  security windows
  

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• Detecting Full Table Scans With SQLite
  

  databases ruby
  

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• Your AI Is Not a Tool
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Abstracting effects with continuations
  

  gleam
  

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• AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
  

  ai
  

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• Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
  

  release retrocomputing
  

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• How C++20 improved the for-loop syntax
  

  c++
  

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• Empathy and delight mean nothing when the software is disrespectful
  

  design programming
  

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• Guix: creating a package from a binary
  

  nix
  

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

• An update on the scraper situation
  

  security web
  

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• I tried NetBSD as a desktop, and it felt like stepping into the '90s in a good way
  

  netbsd
  

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• I converted an Android app to a webpage
  

  mobile web
  

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• Madame Semver Will See You Now
  

  satire
  

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• Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
  

  databases vibecoding
  

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• After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
  

  haskell vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Package Management as Org Chart
  

  devops satire
  

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• Zeal Z80-based computer
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• AI Surveillance and Social Progress
  

  ai culture privacy
  

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• What Every Python Developer Should Know About the CPython ABI
  

  c python
  

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• Running 1000 tests in 1s (2022)
  

  javascript performance testing
  

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