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

• Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
  

  web
  

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• Chromium publishes fixed exploit 4 years later, turns out it's actually unfixed
  

  browsers security
  

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• Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist?
  

  c historical
  

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• Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Flipper One — we need your help
  

  hardware
  

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• An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• The Mislabeled Bricks of Utopia
  

  philosophy
  

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• [RFC] LLVM Foundation statement in favor of open access to standards documents
  

  c c++ compilers
  

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• Internships for early university / no former employment
  

  ask job
  

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• XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None
  

  security
  

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• Notes on I2C
  

  hardware
  

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• the may 2026 fedi software vulnerability
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Pokemon Gen2 compression myth
  

  games historical performance
  

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• GitHub Source Code Breach - TeamPCP Claims Access to Internal Source Code
  

  security
  

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• pgBackRest will continue
  

  databases
  

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• Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years
  

  programming ruby
  

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• I am not a Software Engineer
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly (2024)
  

  api
  

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• Saying goodbye to asm.js
  

  browsers javascript
  

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• Everything in C is undefined behavior
  

  c
  

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• Erasing Existentials
  

  rust
  

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• Software's Centaur Era
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Super Tiny Compiler, but in Ada
  

  plt programming
  

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• Golfing Zig ELF Binaries (2025)
  

  programming unix zig
  

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

• Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
  

  design historical
  

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• Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
  

  browsers web
  

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• Hoot 0.9.0 released
  

  lisp release wasm
  

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• Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
  

  windows
  

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• Fragnesia: New Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit
  

  linux security
  

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• YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability
  

  security windows
  

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• 5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake
  

  plt web
  

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• Lua as a practical "soft-bedrock" language
  

  lua practices
  

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• Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability
  

  security
  

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• "This is written by an LLM" comments should be flagged as off-topic
  

  meta
  

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• httpx2 - Fork by Pydantic
  

  python
  

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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 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• cursed_browser: A web browser with no rendering engine — the VLM reads the HTML and hallucinates the page
  

  browsers satire vibecoding
  

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• Programming Still Sucks
  

  culture practices
  

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• Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem
  

  ai
  

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• Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
  

  linux security
  

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• jj v0.41.0 is out
  

  release vcs
  

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• AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A PHP license change is imminent
  

  law php
  

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• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
  

  browsers security vibecoding
  

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• Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC
  

  video emacs lisp
  

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• Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)
  

  plt
  

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• The Original Super Mario 64 Is Now Playable On GBA
  

  games
  

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