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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root
  

  linux security
  

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• A text editor as a user interface
  

  editors
  

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• Mozilla's position on the Prompt API
  

  web
  

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• Stable specialization in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• GCC 16 Release Series: Changes, New Features, and Fixes
  

  compilers release
  

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• You can beat the binary search
  

  performance
  

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• Blessed Syntax and Ergonomics
  

  plt programming
  

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• Early Impressions of Chrome from a Firefox User
  

  browsers
  

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• March in Servo: keyboard navigation, better debugging, FreeBSD support, and more
  

  browsers
  

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• CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design
  

  css
  

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• Breaking ten years of C API compatibility in Futhark
  

  compilers plt
  

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• The end of responsive images
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up
  

  networking security vibecoding
  

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• A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management
  

  c c++ programming satire
  

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• Lua can be a really cool HTML templating engine
  

  lua web
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.0
  

  linux release
  

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• Dillo release 3.3.0
  

  browsers release
  

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• It's OK To Use Floating Point for Money
  

  satire
  

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• It's OK to use coding assistance tools to revive the projects you never were going to finish
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Smolwebifying my site
  

  web
  

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• The fastest Linux timestamps
  

  linux performance
  

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• My Homemade PBX
  

  hardware
  

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• Swissing a table
  

  go
  

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• I have officially retired from Emacs
  

  vibecoding
  

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