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

• Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
  

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• The contagion of fear
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
  

  assembly historical
  

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• The case against JPEG XL
  

  compsci
  

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• Mergiraf: A syntax-aware git merge driver for a growing collection of programming languages and file formats
  

  programming vcs
  

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• Writing a Guix service from scratch, as a beginner
  

  nix
  

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• What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Purely Functional Operating Systems
  

  osdev programming
  

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• How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?
  

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• I wish you the best in the Offline
  

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• Golang developers should try Odin
  

  programming
  

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• Can a regex match valid card numbers?
  

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

• OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
  

  ruby security vibecoding
  

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• ChiPass Release 2026.09.0
  

  release security
  

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• I made a build visualizer to understand Bun’s compile times
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Linux Zoom Client Proactively Reads X11 Clipboard
  

  linux security
  

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• Pandas Should Go Extinct
  

  databases python
  

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• Measuring the sloppiness of code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A list of macOS defaults commands with demos
  

  mac
  

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• xkcd-font: The xkcd font
  

  design
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Base84 deserves a place in file names
  

  linux
  

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• Optimizing a Spin-Lock
  

  c++
  

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• Tutorial for Septabee, a free DAW in the making for over 20,000 hours
  

  video art release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution (via the strip utility)
  

  linux nix security
  

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• deft: A gradual type system for Janet
  

  lisp
  

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• jank reimagines C++ errors and gets an official native package repo
  

  c++ clojure compilers plt
  

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• Bespoke: A Programming Language for People Who Say Please
  

  programming satire
  

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• Imperial Colors Manifesto
  

  design satire
  

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• A preview of the future Intel Architecture documentation
  

  formalmethods hardware
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• zopt: low-ceremony command line parsing for Zig
  

  show zig
  

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• NYC PIT Crew
  

  job
  

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• smolts: a pedagogical IDE for a teaching language
  

  education plt
  

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• Knowing Where to Type ‘Zero’ (2015)
  

  performance
  

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• What filesystem are you running on your NAS/Backups, and why?
  

  ask linux
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Surviving Code Reviews in the era of AI
  

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• simple is not small
  

  practices
  

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• Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The asteroid currently hitting frontend web development
  

  education vibecoding
  

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• The NX bit is not just about security
  

  assembly
  

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• Is AI ruining my brain?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Can We Stop With the Uptime Percentages?
  

  rant
  

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• WTF is going on with R7RS Large? 2026 edition
  

  culture lisp
  

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• FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Souping up my blog
  

  web
  

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• Lua-async
  

  lua vim
  

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• Babashka 1.13.220 gets FFI
  

  clojure
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
  

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• A note on subscription prices from LWN
  

  linux
  

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• A Crash Course in Predicate Logic
  

  math
  

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• I Don’t Have a Smartphone…
  

  culture
  

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• The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
  

  vibecoding visualization
  

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• Wasmi 2.0 - Engineering of the Fastest Wasm Interpreters
  

  performance release wasm
  

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• The Endless Temptation of Claude
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• What will you do after tech?
  

  ask culture
  

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• GentleOS/16 hobby OS for vintage 16-bit PCs
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• humanity has built the records of FATE by accident
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Dependent if expressions without dependent types
  

  plt
  

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• Static Allocation, Constant Work
  

  zig
  

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