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

• LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
  

  meta philosophy
  

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• linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
  

  linux security
  

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• In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
  

  privacy security
  

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• Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
  

  web
  

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• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  

  culture practices
  

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• How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
  

  privacy
  

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• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
  

  css
  

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• Volkswagen- detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2015)
  

  javascript satire testing
  

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• PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs
  

  databases
  

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• SQL: Incorrect by Construction
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Steering Zig Fmt
  

  zig
  

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• On forking the Web
  

  web
  

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• I learned something about GPUs today
  

  debugging graphics
  

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• I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs
  

  web
  

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• NixOS and Secrets
  

  nix
  

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• What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• jank now has its own custom IR
  

  c++ clojure lisp
  

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• WebRTC is the Problem
  

  networking
  

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• The `Sync` bound nobody asked for
  

  rust
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Wii IP6 webserver
  

  netbsd web
  

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

• Reminder: You Can Stitch Together Lots of Little HTML Pages With Navigations For Interactions
  

  web
  

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• Agentic Coding is a Trap
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Async Rust never left the MVP state
  

  rust
  

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• I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their stresser honeypot
  

  security
  

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• Broadcasting GPS on the local network
  

  linux
  

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• How LLMs Distort Our Written Language
  

  ai
  

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• oops, cubic macro
  

  rust
  

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• Your Container Is Not a Sandbox
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Native macOS app to track YouTube channels, no Google login required
  

  mac
  

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• For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day. In 2026, the music is out of phase with the work
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Designing microkernel IPC
  

  osdev
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden
  

  security
  

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• Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages
  

  programming
  

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• What Conferences are You Excited to Attend in the Next 12 Months?
  

  ask event
  

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• What fun websites do you know?
  

  ask web
  

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• NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
  

  ai security
  

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• Screw you Realtek
  

  linux networking vibecoding
  

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• XITLOG - patch-based merging is now enabled by default
  

  vcs
  

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• stackless coroutines for gamedev in ~200 lines of C++
  

  c++ games
  

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• PEP 661 – Sentinel Values, accepted 5 years later
  

  python
  

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• Why TUIs are back
  

  design
  

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• Protect Your Shed
  

  practices programming
  

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• Progressive Web Components
  

  javascript vibecoding web
  

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

• If I Could Make My Own GitHub
  

  programming
  

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• Why I Don’t Vibe Code
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A life update from Zach Oakes: Zig, AI, unemployment, and more
  

  video person
  

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• Techniques for better software testing
  

  testing
  

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• Android VPN IP Leak Even If Always-On VPN Enabled
  

  android privacy
  

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• Porting microgpt to Futhark, Part I
  

  ai plt
  

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• combat LLM spam by building a web of trust
  

  vcs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Monad tutorials timeline
  

  haskell
  

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• Amber-Lang 0.6.0 - New release, check what's new
  

  linux unix vibecoding
  

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• Ruby for "shell scripting" (2024)
  

  ruby
  

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