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 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 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Native all the way, until you need text
  

  mac swift
  

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• The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means
  

  cryptography security
  

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• New design for the FreeBSD website
  

  design freebsd
  

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• Go European — Discover European products and services
  

  culture privacy
  

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• Coding on Paper
  

  hardware
  

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• Recent Kernel exploits, attack surface reduction, example IPSEC
  

  linux networking security
  

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• Subscription Bombing: Email under Attack
  

  email
  

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• Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Don't answer the first question
  

  practices
  

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• Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• How to Write to SSDs
  

  pdf databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Just Fucking Use Go
  

  go
  

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• Ploopy Bean - external trackpoint
  

  hardware
  

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• Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?
  

  historical programming
  

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• Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo
  

  security
  

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• Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue
  

  databases performance
  

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• Stop MITM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider
  

  cryptography devops security
  

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• Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story
  

  ruby
  

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• blaise: A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8
  

  compilers vibecoding
  

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• Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM
  

  networking web
  

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• Mojo v1.0.0b1
  

  ai plt release
  

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• building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
  

  assembly web
  

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• cuda-oxide: cuda-oxide is an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
  

  css design
  

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• Building the deployment tool I wish I had
  

  devops release vibecoding
  

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• Principia Softwarica
  

  osdev
  

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• Go is FIPS 140-3 certified
  

  cryptography go
  

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• krabby: making a fast Rust compiler
  

  compilers rust
  

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• SLAM: s6/synit based NixOS
  

  nix osdev
  

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• iPhone dumbphone
  

  ios
  

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• The vi family
  

  editors
  

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• Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be/bn)
  

  networking
  

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• How an HTTP header caused time.gov to skew from UTC
  

  web
  

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• A dispute over the TAB key between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures
  

  historical
  

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• One week of view_types
  

  plt rust
  

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