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 August 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Does it make sense to switch to a Github Alternative ?
  

  ask programming
  

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• GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
  

  vcs
  

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• A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
  

  databases
  

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• When the Down Arrow is not an Upside-Down Up Arrow (2022)
  

  web
  

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• Passphrase-less reboots using kexec under NixOS
  

  linux nix security
  

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• People of ACM - Russ Cox
  

  go person
  

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• AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• You can just choose how many bugs you want now
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Writing a Fast Compiler
  

  compilers
  

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• Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms
  

  a11y design graphics
  

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• Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pony's Arena Allocator
  

  programming
  

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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 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Toggles Considered Harmful
  

  design
  

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• Firefox Containers Preview
  

  browsers
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed
  

  nix
  

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• I got an email about resistance
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• a pure css implementation of some sunlight streaming in through the window
  

  css design web
  

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• Django is moving to an annual release cycle
  

  python release web
  

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• GitHub Actions needs OIDC audience constraints
  

  security
  

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• How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets
  

  privacy security
  

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• IBM i (OS/400) The Database Operating System
  

  osdev
  

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• an ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed
  

  c
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park
  

  satire
  

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• A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
  

  unix
  

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• Super Mario Derivations
  

  games nix retrocomputing
  

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• Taste Is All That's Left
  

  vibecoding
  

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• the web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
  

  web
  

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• Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD
  

  netbsd web
  

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• Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out
  

  practices
  

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• How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
  

  c games graphics retrocomputing
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Finally adding recursive functions to Futhark
  

  plt
  

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• cl-forth: Forth 2012 Standard in CL
  

  concatenative lisp
  

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• Some ways to navigate through 'git blame' over time in GNU Emacs
  

  emacs
  

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