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

• SQLite 3.53.0
  

  databases release
  

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• I Just Want Simple S3
  

  osdev scaling
  

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• A bet on whether ML-KEM-768 or X25519 will break first
  

  cryptography
  

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• 20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job
  

  freebsd
  

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• Advanced Mac Substitute
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• The difficulty of making sure your website is broken
  

  web
  

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• In defense of GitHub's poor uptime
  

  culture devops
  

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• Windows Defender is being used to hack Windows
  

  security windows
  

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• The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer
  

  compilers
  

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• Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too)
  

  emacs vcs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• watgo - a WebAssembly Toolkit for Go
  

  go wasm
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
  

  networking
  

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• The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026
  

  linux mac windows
  

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• A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Someone at BrowserStack is Leaking Users' Email Address
  

  privacy
  

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• The Seed Beneath the Snow
  

  practices
  

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• Using Discord on Plan 9
  

  osdev
  

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• Someone good at CSS help, my website design is dying
  

  css
  

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• Git’s Magic Files
  

  vcs
  

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• The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• OpenSSH begins warning for non-PQC key exchanges
  

  networking security
  

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• I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True
  

  mac vibecoding web
  

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• What text editor (cli or gui) are you using for writing non-code?
  

  ask practices
  

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

• unnix: Reproducible Nix environments without installing Nix
  

  nix
  

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• Easters - an adventofcode-like challenge for easter
  

  show event games programming
  

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• DPI bypass using eBPF sock_ops and fake TLS ClientHello injection
  

  c linux networking security
  

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• Mvidia: A game where you build a GPU
  

  graphics hardware
  

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• Parsing AsciiDoc in Prolog
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Packaging and Init Systems
  

  linux rant
  

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• Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector
  

  linux practices
  

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• Components of A Coding Agent
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Make your own ColecoVision at home, part 5
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Accumulated Test Vectors
  

  cryptography testing
  

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• Growing Yggdrasil, the World Tree, with Ash
  

  elixir web
  

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

• This Is Not The Computer For You
  

  hardware mac
  

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• Parametricity, or Comptime is Bonkers
  

  haskell plt rust zig
  

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• Lobsters Interview with ngoldbaum
  

  interview person
  

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• On The Need For Understanding
  

  education practices programming
  

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• //go:fix inline and the source-level inliner
  

  go
  

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• Faster asin() Was Hiding In Plain Sight
  

  math performance
  

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• Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript
  

  javascript web
  

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• Secure Communication, Buried In A News App
  

  cryptography
  

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• Why should we have user age tracking in Operating Systems and websites?
  

  law osdev
  

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• Moonforge, A Yocto-Based Linux OS
  

  linux release
  

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• Generative AI vegetarianism
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Building a new Flash
  

  retrocomputing vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How my side project got banned from the internet
  

  security
  

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• Mothlamp Problems
  

  philosophy
  

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• Accidentally disabling SSH access via scp
  

  linux
  

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• Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp 1st-person game (2017)
  

  graphics
  

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• Sliced by Go’s Slices
  

  go plt
  

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• “Our programs are fun to use.”
  

  culture design historical
  

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• Jails for NetBSD
  

  netbsd
  

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• Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes
  

  graphics
  

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• Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS
  

  finance
  

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• Allocating on the Stack
  

  go
  

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• OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation
  

  math performance
  

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• Please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
  

  cryptography
  

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