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

• The Slurptop: A home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries
  

  art hardware
  

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• Balloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved
  

  c++
  

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• Vim Classic
  

  editors vim
  

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• POSIX wordexp(3) is dangerous
  

  c security
  

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• Partial Order Precedence
  

  zig
  

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• How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
  

  programming
  

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• Twelve years of distributed SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• An Incremental Approach to JIT Construction
  

  pdf compilers education
  

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• No Source Code? No Problem! What if you have to port a program, but all you have is a binary? (2003)
  

  games reversing
  

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• MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)
  

  systemd
  

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• This week's "node2shell" Brotli vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497) is exploitable in Python, other consumers of Brotli
  

  security web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• examining the macOS gcc binary
  

  mac reversing
  

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• CVE-2026-107891: musl libc: multiple integer overflow in regcomp, possibly leading to incorrect allocation sizes and out-of-bounds heap writes
  

  c security
  

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• Google's Rust Style Guide
  

  rust
  

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• jailbreaking the switch 2
  

  ai-tooling hardware reversing security
  

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• Don't throw it all away: Caching an immediate-mode UI
  

  graphics performance
  

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• Using a lookup-table to correct an approximation
  

  performance
  

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• Understanding Nix flakes
  

  nix
  

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• Flow Typing, A New Lens on Linearity
  

  plt
  

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• Passkeys Attestation Trap
  

  security web
  

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• Railway Security Disclosure: Wednesday October 21st
  

  devops security
  

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• Quad9 DNS Resolver to exit France
  

  law networking
  

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• Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”
  

  databases release
  

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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 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Updates to site guidelines and AI/LLM tags
  

  announce meta
  

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• Wine ported to OpenBSD
  

  openbsd
  

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• August in Servo: CSS Grid, text selection, and more
  

  browsers
  

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• One Hash Bloom Filters
  

  compsci databases
  

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• Superoptimizing an FPU emulator
  

  performance rust
  

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• What the heck is /pkg?
  

  mac unix
  

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• Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android from scratch
  

  android networking security
  

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• Beginning of the Ende (a community Deno fork)
  

  javascript
  

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• Inline rendering with document.currentScript
  

  javascript
  

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• Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542% of cases
  

  c compilers
  

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• Finding a home amidst the wreckage
  

  culture linux
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Who is vfmaddrnd231pd??
  

  assembly
  

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• A plea not to use uv-build
  

  devops python
  

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• Did Ente Locker copy my code without attribution?
  

  law
  

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• The reverts will continue until morale improves
  

  databases
  

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• Speeding up the Unreal editor by… not using unnecessarily secure hash methods
  

  performance
  

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• Where is all the new, good software?
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• A slightly faster slimmer curl
  

  performance
  

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• your c is not standard c
  

  c
  

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• Lotus Improv on the NeXT
  

  historical
  

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• What I've been seeing lately (in software)
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Parsing JSON at tens of gigabytes per second… in Python
  

  python
  

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