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

• The social contract of writing
  

  philosophy
  

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• The Eternal Sloptember
  

  culture programming vibecoding
  

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• JS Crossword - a crossword where the clue = eval(answer)
  

  javascript web
  

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• Flatpak will depend on systemd
  

  linux systemd
  

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• Using AI to write better code more slowly
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Switching to Colemak
  

  a11y
  

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• Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas
  

  ai philosophy
  

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• Scoped Error in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
  

  c compilers
  

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• The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine
  

  historical practices
  

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• Nix's Substituter List Is Not a Routing Table
  

  nix
  

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• No Linux support on free version of Vivado 2026.1
  

  hardware
  

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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 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
  

  meta philosophy
  

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• linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
  

  linux security
  

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• In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
  

  privacy security
  

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• Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
  

  web
  

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• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  

  culture practices
  

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• How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
  

  privacy
  

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• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
  

  css
  

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• Volkswagen- detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2015)
  

  javascript satire testing
  

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• PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs
  

  databases
  

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• SQL: Incorrect by Construction
  

  databases
  

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

• Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• let-go: Almost Clojure written in Go
  

  clojure go lisp vibecoding
  

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• the 90 day disclosure policy is dead
  

  security
  

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• Ratty: A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
  

  show graphics rust vibecoding
  

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• Fully Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Childhood Computing
  

  culture person
  

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• Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare
  

  video security
  

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• Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot
  

  emacs
  

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• Gram 2.0.0 released
  

  editors release
  

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• The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival
  

  design
  

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• My pastebin clone Vivipara and language musings
  

  programming web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Debian must ship reproducible packages
  

  linux
  

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• Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
  

  performance rust
  

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• Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days
  

  hardware security
  

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• So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? (2023)
  

  programming
  

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• Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off
  

  practices
  

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• The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
  

  culture rant
  

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• Fixing QuickLook (2023)
  

  mac reversing
  

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• The React2Shell Story and What Happened Next.js
  

  security
  

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• FreeBSD: Local privilege escalation via execve()
  

  freebsd security
  

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• wayland.fyi minimalist wayland special interest group
  

  linux
  

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• AI is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Point-Free Logic Programming
  

  logiclangs
  

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