The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release
  

  php security
  

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• Firefox Local Mode
  

  browsers
  

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• Unikernels in OCaml
  

  ml osdev
  

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• Do minor curl vulnerabilities in the open
  

  security
  

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• The Future of CSS
  

  css
  

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• zls 0.17.0
  

  zig
  

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• Mastodon 5.0: A closer look
  

  design release
  

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• Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Vector Graphics in Lil
  

  apl graphics
  

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• Lobsters NYC Meetup on the 28th of October
  

  event
  

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• Why do we need ud2 when int 6 is right there?
  

  assembly
  

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• Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog
  

  graphics hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Who is vfmaddrnd231pd??
  

  assembly
  

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• A plea not to use uv-build
  

  devops python
  

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• Did Ente Locker copy my code without attribution?
  

  law
  

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• The reverts will continue until morale improves
  

  databases
  

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• Speeding up the Unreal editor by… not using unnecessarily secure hash methods
  

  performance
  

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• Where is all the new, good software?
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• A slightly faster slimmer curl
  

  performance
  

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• your c is not standard c
  

  c
  

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• Lotus Improv on the NeXT
  

  historical
  

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• What I've been seeing lately (in software)
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Parsing JSON at tens of gigabytes per second… in Python
  

  python
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cloudflare shutting down Deno is news, not just PR
  

  meta
  

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• No Man Is an Island
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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• oh, apparently it's not possible to portably check for string-to-float conversion errors in standard c
  

  c
  

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• Branches in branch-free code
  

  assembly c compilers rust zig
  

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• There's little that's "inevitable" about AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• "Robot" Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot
  

  philosophy
  

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• Spinlocks Considered Harmful (2020)
  

  performance
  

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• The Lightbulb Computer: Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing with Projectors
  

  design
  

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• There are many themes, but this one is yours
  

  a11y design vibecoding
  

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• Iframes that finally fit their content
  

  css web
  

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• The importance of communities around software
  

  culture
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
  

  android
  

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• The Story of Mel
  

  assembly historical
  

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• Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
  

  design
  

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• SAML: A fractal of bad design
  

  rant security
  

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• I want my mesh networks to be signed, not encrypted
  

  cryptography networking
  

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• I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB
  

  vibecoding
  

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• F-Droid 2.0
  

  android
  

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• Do not let your type system reason about aliasing in your programming language
  

  plt
  

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• Clankers Made Me Build a Second Brain
  

  vibecoding
  

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• SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py)
  

  security
  

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• Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History
  

  databases historical osdev
  

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• A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
  

  windows
  

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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"
  

  programming
  

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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?
  

  c unix
  

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• I wish you the best in the Offline
  

  culture
  

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• Golang developers should try Odin
  

  programming
  

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• Can a regex match valid card numbers?
  

  compsci
  

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