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 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• taken
  

  privacy vibecoding web
  

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• Redis and the Cost of Ambition
  

  databases
  

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• Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
  

  hardware law
  

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• Zig vs Rust in 2026
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Local AI Needs to be the Norm
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory
  

  video games graphics historical
  

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• Learning Software Architecture
  

  practices programming
  

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• iwp9 2026
  

  satire
  

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• The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics
  

  math
  

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• Popular Go library fsnotify raises supply chain alarms after maintainer access changes
  

  go security
  

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• Fighting Hyrum's Law in LLVM
  

  compilers practices
  

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• Programmable Whitelist-based Configs: Embedding Rye in Go
  

  programming
  

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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 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• NetHack 5.0.0
  

  games release
  

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• Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
  

  programming
  

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• The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
  

  a11y
  

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• A GitHub for maintainers
  

  vcs
  

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• Fake Notepad++ for Mac
  

  editors mac web
  

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• Unsigned sizes: a five year mistake
  

  c plt
  

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• pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
  

  databases
  

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• My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS
  

  linux systemd
  

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• Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Servers with Personality
  

  hardware networking
  

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• This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code
  

  assembly wasm
  

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• GIT - the stupid content tracker
  

  vcs
  

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

• Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
  

  vcs
  

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• What is your go-to project for learning a new language?
  

  ask education practices
  

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• How To Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter
  

  compilers performance plt
  

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• Stalwart v0.16: A New Foundation
  

  release
  

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• ggsql: A grammar of graphics for SQL
  

  databases visualization
  

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• The zero-days are numbered
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Finishing Things
  

  practices
  

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• Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Intel Core Ultra 3 & LPCAMM2
  

  hardware
  

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• Modern Frontend Complexity: essential or accidental?
  

  web
  

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• Wait is over - coreboot on the AMD StarBook
  

  hardware linux release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• grasp: a simple protocol for decentralized git
  

  distributed vcs
  

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