The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• To my students
  

  education vibecoding
  

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• Winners of the 2025 International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC 29)
  

  c
  

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• How LLMs Actually Work
  

  ai
  

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• The User Doesn't Care - But you should
  

  practices
  

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• Ergonomic overrides for Nixpkgs
  

  nix plt
  

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• Moving beyond fork() + exec()
  

  unix
  

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• The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix derivations in Nix
  

  nix
  

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• ntsc-rs - an accurate VHS video effect
  

  graphics programming
  

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• It doesn’t always have to be Linux
  

  video freebsd
  

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• mold-desktop
  

  lisp osdev
  

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• Magecart skimmer turns Stripe into a malware command server
  

  security
  

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• A Little Explanation of Little's Law
  

  performance practices
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Life is too short for a slow terminal
  

  linux performance
  

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• An announcement from the Steering Council regarding the JIT project
  

  python
  

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• The smallest C++ binary
  

  linux
  

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• PolyForm Licenses
  

  law
  

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• The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
  

  privacy security
  

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• Win16 Memory Management
  

  historical programming windows
  

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• If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
  

  pdf ai
  

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• Total Reciprocity Public License
  

  law
  

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• The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
  

  clojure databases
  

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• Using Fedora Silverblue for Compositor Development
  

  linux
  

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• Let's stop using flags as down-vote
  

  meta culture
  

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• Getting silly with C, part &((int*)-8)[3]
  

  c satire
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• QBE - Compiler Backend: Version 1.3
  

  compilers release
  

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• Announcing Zstandard in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• It's Not Just X. It's Y
  

  ai vibecoding
  

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• You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough
  

  systemd
  

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• github and the crime against software
  

  devops distributed
  

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• Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
  

  graphics math
  

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• The S in interoperability
  

  practices security
  

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• securix: NixOS-based secure operating system. Provides a hardened environment with strong isolation, reproducibility, and policy-driven configurations
  

  nix security
  

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• Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/http/httptrace
  

  debugging go
  

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• Arch Linux: Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`
  

  linux
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• The postmodern build system
  

  nix
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The social contract of writing
  

  philosophy
  

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• The Eternal Sloptember
  

  culture programming vibecoding
  

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• JS Crossword - a crossword where the clue = eval(answer)
  

  javascript web
  

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• Flatpak will depend on systemd
  

  linux systemd
  

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• Using AI to write better code more slowly
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Switching to Colemak
  

  a11y
  

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• Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas
  

  ai philosophy
  

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• Scoped Error in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
  

  c compilers
  

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• The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine
  

  historical practices
  

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• Nix's Substituter List Is Not a Routing Table
  

  nix
  

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• No Linux support on free version of Vivado 2026.1
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Just Fucking Use Go
  

  go
  

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• Ploopy Bean - external trackpoint
  

  hardware
  

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• Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?
  

  historical programming
  

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• Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo
  

  security
  

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• Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue
  

  databases performance
  

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• Stop MITM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider
  

  cryptography devops security
  

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• Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story
  

  ruby
  

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• blaise: A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8
  

  compilers vibecoding
  

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• Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM
  

  networking web
  

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• Mojo v1.0.0b1
  

  ai plt release
  

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• building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
  

  assembly web
  

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• cuda-oxide: cuda-oxide is an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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