The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why are we even doing all this?
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Linus Torvalds on AI-assisted kernel contributions
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Forgejo v17.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• On the technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC
  

  science
  

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• The road to iroh 1.0
  

  networking
  

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• Religious Studies In Software Engineering
  

  culture philosophy
  

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• The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
  

  cryptography
  

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• Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
  

  art
  

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• Epic's EAC2 v2 seems fairly easily bypassable
  

  linux security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.99.1
  

  release rust
  

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• Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from? (2009)
  

  historical windows
  

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• Gleam case exhaustiveness, as a fan
  

  compilers gleam
  

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

• I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here
  

  culture
  

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• What's Wrong with GitHub
  

  vcs
  

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• LineageOS 24.0 released
  

  android mobile release
  

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• How big is a Git commit?
  

  vcs
  

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• I'm sorry, but you still have to think
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
  

  compilers plt
  

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• D-Bus Hell
  

  person satire
  

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• How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups
  

  databases performance
  

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• Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Kiesel Devlog #15: Release 0.4.0
  

  javascript zig
  

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• The 2D physics prototype behind GTA’s vehicles
  

  games
  

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• Why 'externalized' proofs of cyclic trait impls does not work
  

  rust
  

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

• Calling a function in C without naming it
  

  c security
  

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• The people holding up the internet
  

  historical web
  

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• I've Been Deindexed by Google
  

  practices
  

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• An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• Creating distro build tooling for a small community
  

  linux
  

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• jujutsu (jj) 0.46.0
  

  release vcs
  

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• rat's minimal register allocator
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Gentoo infrastructure sponsors wanted
  

  linux
  

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• Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities
  

  release security
  

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• Ending the Casuarina Linux Experiment
  

  linux
  

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• Zeroization, part 1: Wiping can make things worse
  

  compilers security
  

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• Beyond the &
  

  rust
  

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

• Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
  

  compilers erlang gleam
  

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• Iroh global content discovery
  

  distributed
  

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• Another step towards elm v1
  

  elm
  

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• Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
  

  nodejs
  

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• ncdu: NCurses Disk Usage (an updated fork)
  

  release zig
  

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• Flirt is now Open-Source
  

  vcs
  

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• Refinement E-Graphs
  

  compilers formalmethods
  

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• Claude Says
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and nginx
  

  networking
  

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• Mold 3.0.0 Released
  

  release rust vibecoding
  

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• Hacking the Go compiler to efficiently map IPv4 to IPv6
  

  compilers go
  

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• Factor Overview
  

  concatenative
  

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