The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My Software North Star
  

  philosophy
  

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• The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years, and the Receipts Are Public
  

  c++
  

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• Mean Hand
  

  design visualization
  

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• A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt
  

  cryptography security web
  

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• Safe Made Easy Pt.1: Single Ownership is (Not) Optional
  

  plt
  

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• Extension or Imitation? Can you tell the valid Haskell Language Extensions, from the Impostors?
  

  haskell
  

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• Parsing XML EXIF from .avif files (plus a rant)
  

  python web
  

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• Reviewing code requires reading
  

  culture
  

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• mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era
  

  c performance
  

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• jujutsu v0.42.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• RP2040 DMA is Turing Complete (2023)
  

  compsci performance
  

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• Revealing the frontier with stacks and queues
  

  performance rust
  

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

• I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
  

  person
  

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• SQLite Does Not Accept Agentic Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• One year of Roto, the compiled scripting language for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
  

  performance programming
  

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• Emacs bra size calculator
  

  emacs
  

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• You probably don't need Yocto, and that's fine
  

  linux
  

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• tail CI logs over SSH
  

  vcs web
  

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• jjc: Non-interactive hunk-level operations for Jujutsu
  

  rust vcs
  

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• How do you version public web APIs?
  

  ask api
  

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• Leaving performance on the table
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Package managers that package package managers
  

  compsci linux practices
  

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• Patching my guitar amp's firmware
  

  hardware reversing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Don't Roll Your Own …
  

  rant web
  

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• Jira is Turing-Complete
  

  compsci
  

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• Planescape: Torment, Part 1: From the Tabletop
  

  games historical
  

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• The mysterious XF86AudioPlay issue
  

  linux
  

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• This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Wayland compositor implemented as a mod in Minecraft
  

  graphics linux
  

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• A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto
  

  cryptography formalmethods
  

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• Hershey is a textual vector font format
  

  art graphics
  

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• mvm - a fast virtual machine for Go
  

  go
  

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• CVE-2026-46529: 10-year-old RCE in Linux PDF Viewer (XReader/Evince/Atril)
  

  linux security
  

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• The Maintainer's Dilemma
  

  vibecoding
  

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• On the <dl>
  

  a11y web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
  

  linux
  

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• what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered
  

  compsci performance
  

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• Erlang/OTP 29.0 Release
  

  erlang
  

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• The Most Emacs Bzr Saga
  

  emacs historical vcs
  

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• What is BusyBox?
  

  linux
  

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• Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain
  

  web
  

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• MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop For The Rest Of Us
  

  hardware mac
  

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• The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• An update on East River Source Control availability
  

  vcs
  

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• A detailed introduction to Kakoune for the aspiring power user
  

  editors
  

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• Killing a `Cow` made my JSON formatter 42% faster
  

  performance rust
  

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• Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic
  

  android security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
  

  compsci programming
  

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• I don't care that it's X times faster
  

  performance rant
  

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• Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters
  

  compilers
  

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• Things you didn't know about indexes
  

  databases
  

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• Saying Goodbye to Agile
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
  

  law
  

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• The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client
  

  web
  

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• Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
  

  security
  

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• Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
  

  c
  

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• My PR has been waiting a year, or the exponential curve behind open source backlogs
  

  programming
  

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• SDL3 - Add DOS platform support
  

  c games programming retrocomputing
  

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• TruffleRuby 34: full Ruby 3.4 compatibility, up to 23% faster parsing, and a new Prism-based Ripper with 20x speedups
  

  release ruby
  

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