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 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
  

  nix
  

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• They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore
  

  editors rant
  

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• some software talks i like
  

  programming
  

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• Assembly Hall of Shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance
  

  hardware
  

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• PS3 emulation is fast on ARM now
  

  video assembly performance
  

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• Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven
  

  practices python science
  

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• From constraint models to playable puzzle games
  

  programming
  

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• I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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• Amiga August 2026 Update
  

  historical osdev
  

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• ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’
  

  video historical
  

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• AI & The University
  

  video education vibecoding
  

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• "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation
  

  compilers performance zig
  

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• Framework 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
  

  hardware
  

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• Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk
  

  graphics
  

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• Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD
  

  openbsd web
  

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• Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly
  

  browsers
  

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• Finding bugs in Raft implementations
  

  distributed testing
  

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• Quick & Easy Parser Combinators
  

  programming
  

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• I Designed A Custom PCB To Avoid Pressing A Button Three Times
  

  c hardware reversing
  

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• Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1
  

  historical windows
  

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• Seriously, what is the large code-model even for?
  

  assembly compilers
  

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• Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s fleet management platform to gain control over all users and vehicles
  

  security
  

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• What even are microservices?
  

  distributed philosophy
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• We're Going to Make Out Like Bandits
  

  culture practices vibecoding
  

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• README, not
  

  programming vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Here's how I host my own AIM server
  

  networking
  

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• Learning a few things about running SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• We're building Postgres in Rust. Using the LLVM of databases
  

  databases
  

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• What gdb frontend do you prefer (linux)
  

  ask programming
  

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• Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled
  

  vibecoding
  

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• perldelta - what is new for perl v5.44.0
  

  perl release
  

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• The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
  

  assembly hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Stop the GUARD Act and age verification laws worldwide
  

  law
  

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• You can't bug fix your way out of the vulnpocalypse
  

  security
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• omarchy is not a distro
  

  linux rant
  

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• It's time to talk about my writerdeck
  

  linux vim
  

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• How my minimal, memory-safe Go rsync steers clear of vulnerabilities
  

  go security
  

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• .NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types
  

  dotnet
  

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• Procedural Fascicle for R7RS Large Scheme
  

  lisp
  

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• remind(1) -- calendar and alarm program
  

  linux unix
  

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• Cuneiforth: A Forth for your Chifir
  

  concatenative
  

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• Declarative partial updates
  

  api browsers web
  

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• A new suite of modern tools coming for editing and publishing RFCs
  

  programming
  

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• wake up! 16b (demo writeup)
  

  art assembly
  

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• “Long-Term Support” doesn’t mean what you think
  

  linux
  

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• That one time I used Go panics for flow control
  

  go
  

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