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 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm done using AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
  

  databases
  

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• Guide to (not) fucking up QR codes
  

  design
  

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• I hate packaging my software for Linux
  

  linux
  

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• The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of
  

  performance
  

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• Compression is prediction
  

  programming
  

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• Analyzing My Lobsters Submissions
  

  visualization
  

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• Introducing Automatic Key Verification
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem
  

  devops security
  

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• Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
  

  compilers games
  

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• Making [etched] holograms with a pen plotter
  

  show art graphics math
  

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• fearless_simd v0.7: 64-bit integers, improved generics, SSE2, and upcoming v1.0
  

  release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Offensive Internet Posture
  

  networking
  

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• Faster Than Ninja
  

  programming
  

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• irken: A tiny hackable full-featured IRC client
  

  programming
  

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• The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you
  

  a11y rant
  

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• Anti-fascist PieFed features
  

  culture web
  

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• Liquid Glass effect for GNU/Emacs
  

  emacs mac
  

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• Nix Overrides That Expire Themselves
  

  nix
  

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• designing a query system
  

  compilers rust
  

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• The Nix sandbox is a hidden input
  

  nix
  

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• Stop Sending Me Your Errors
  

  email rant
  

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

• How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026
  

  compilers performance rust
  

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• Go 1.27 interactive tour
  

  go
  

  Comments
• Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy
  

  ruby
  

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• Why I forked rand
  

  rust
  

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• Stripe Just Wants a Number
  

  programming
  

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• Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx
  

  javascript web
  

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• GCC steering committee announces AI policy
  

  c c++ vibecoding
  

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• Correlated RNG
  

  games
  

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• A question about a factorial operator
  

  ask compilers
  

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• Full flattening of nested data parallelism
  

  programming
  

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• Private data in ATProto: Permissioned Data Proposal
  

  distributed
  

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• Guix shell now inside Emacs
  

  emacs nix
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
  

  culture ruby
  

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• State of multi-player Wayland
  

  linux
  

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• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The mean means nothing
  

  performance
  

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• User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
  

  art design
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy (2025)
  

  programming
  

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• Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification
  

  compilers formalmethods ml plt
  

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• Manganin: tools matter
  

  vcs zig
  

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• Overengineered calculator: Zig + QBE
  

  compilers zig
  

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• A field day for Gleam’s language server | Gleam v.1.18.0 release
  

  gleam release
  

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• Dependency Cultures - Richard Feldman (Software Should Work Conf 2026)
  

  video practices programming
  

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• Building (systems) software with Nix
  

  nix osdev
  

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