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

• Your code is worthless
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The nvim-treesitter repository was archived
  

  editors programming vim
  

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• Where can I find the old internet?
  

  ask culture
  

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• Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi
  

  networking retrocomputing
  

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• Why Nobody Can Verify What Booted Your Server
  

  security
  

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• Legibility is Ruining You
  

  culture
  

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• 800 Rust terminal projects in 3 years
  

  show rust
  

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• Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• Baby’s Second Garbage Collector
  

  compsci
  

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• A CSS Engine in OCaml
  

  ml web
  

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• Signals, the push-pull based algorithm
  

  javascript web
  

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• A Rave Review of Superpowers (for Claude Code)
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Magic Link Pitfalls
  

  browsers email security
  

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• "﷽" U+FDFD: ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM (Unicode Character)
  

  a11y
  

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• Forking httpx as httpxyz
  

  python
  

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• VitruvianOS
  

  linux
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.95 “Kakigōri”
  

  nix release
  

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• Missile Defense is NP-Complete
  

  compsci
  

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• Pine64 FOSDEM 2026 Update
  

  hardware
  

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• Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Swift 6.3 released
  

  release swift
  

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• Mojo's not (yet) Python
  

  plt python
  

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• Fyrox 1.0.0
  

  games graphics release rust
  

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• Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide
  

  go
  

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