The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release
  

  php security
  

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• Firefox Local Mode
  

  browsers
  

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• Unikernels in OCaml
  

  ml osdev
  

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• Do minor curl vulnerabilities in the open
  

  security
  

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• The Future of CSS
  

  css
  

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• zls 0.17.0
  

  zig
  

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• Mastodon 5.0: A closer look
  

  design release
  

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• Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Vector Graphics in Lil
  

  apl graphics
  

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• Lobsters NYC Meetup on the 28th of October
  

  event
  

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• Why do we need ud2 when int 6 is right there?
  

  assembly
  

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• Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog
  

  graphics hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protecting Firefox users following the compromise of eMudhra intermediate certificates
  

  security
  

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• OpenBSD 8.0
  

  openbsd release
  

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• The Netherlands is building its own Linux OS to break free from Microsoft
  

  linux nix windows
  

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• 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Setting up SSH keys on macOS with Touch ID
  

  cryptography mac security
  

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• NixOS is making me less afraid
  

  nix
  

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• In Context
  

  video programming
  

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• A5 v1.0
  

  compsci math rust visualization
  

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• Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• The 7.3 kernel has been released
  

  linux release
  

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• How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
  

  privacy security
  

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• Making dns_erlang Fast: Binary Tricks for the BEAM
  

  erlang
  

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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 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Introducing Firefox Enterprise
  

  browsers release web
  

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• Plasma 6.8 released (KDE's 30th birthday)
  

  linux release
  

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• Fancy Curl Sites
  

  web
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.96 “Bingsu”
  

  nix release
  

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• Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

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• What I Self-Host | Aspirational Self Hosting Guide
  

  devops linux osdev web
  

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• Redesigning source control at Anthropic
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

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• Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
  

  cryptography security
  

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• yet another place where a linux man page is inaccurate
  

  c linux
  

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• Apple: Switch to Safari (from Chrome)
  

  browsers
  

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• Factor 0.102 now available
  

  concatenative release
  

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• Creusot 0.14.0 release - Contracts for Rust, formally proved
  

  formalmethods release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 'AI' is Not a Tool
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Living in the Weimar era of Ruby
  

  ruby vibecoding
  

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• (Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
  

  cryptography
  

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• Linus Torvalds Working On A Hefty Linux Kernel Improvement With Claude Code
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Arena Allocators in C
  

  c
  

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• Fingerprints are the new cookies
  

  privacy
  

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• Finding a $90,000 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google
  

  security
  

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• Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Highlights from "I spent 6 years developing a game in Rust and it just shipped, AMA" (2024)
  

  games rust
  

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• 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2
  

  devops linux
  

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• French supermarket chains say cyberattack forced refrigerator shutdown
  

  security
  

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• Type-safe HTML templating in Zig
  

  web zig
  

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