The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• HTML Can Do That
  

  web
  

  Comments
• Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Mastodon 5.0: Laying the foundation
  

  design web
  

  Comments
• Kakoune code editor
  

  editors
  

  Comments
• Plain Text Accounting is Pretty Cool
  

  finance
  

  Comments
• Go 1.27 is released
  

  go release
  

  Comments
• Why I still hand write my commit messages
  

  practices vcs vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Introducing Microlighter
  

  javascript
  

  Comments
• Odin's New Inline Assembly Templates
  

  assembly plt programming
  

  Comments
• a filename when none exists
  

  programming
  

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• SQLite for Everything
  

  databases
  

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• Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
  

  video mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
  

  ios
  

  Comments
• Rethinking Database Programming
  

  databases elm plt
  

  Comments
• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
  

  ai art
  

  Comments
• How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
  

  browsers privacy
  

  Comments
• Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
  

  art
  

  Comments
• Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
  

  games historical reversing
  

  Comments
• Mojo is now open source
  

  plt
  

  Comments
• What software do you use daily in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

  Comments
• AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• CSS: the bomb inside your inbox
  

  security
  

  Comments
• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Does it make sense to switch to a Github Alternative ?
  

  ask programming
  

  Comments
• GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
  

  databases
  

  Comments
• When the Down Arrow is not an Upside-Down Up Arrow (2022)
  

  web
  

  Comments
• Passphrase-less reboots using kexec under NixOS
  

  linux nix security
  

  Comments
• People of ACM - Russ Cox
  

  go person
  

  Comments
• AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• You can just choose how many bugs you want now
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Writing a Fast Compiler
  

  compilers
  

  Comments
• Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms
  

  a11y design graphics
  

  Comments
• Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Pony's Arena Allocator
  

  programming
  

  Comments

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess"
  

  practices
  

  Comments
• OxiSH: SSH server written in Rust
  

  rust
  

  Comments
• Curl Performance
  

  performance
  

  Comments
• A preview of Roc 0.1.0
  

  video compsci
  

  Comments
• The Art of CHIP-8
  

  retrocomputing
  

  Comments
• SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024)
  

  video databases
  

  Comments
• A long division story
  

  compsci math
  

  Comments
• RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
  

  assembly compilers rant
  

  Comments
• SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public git repositories
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
  

  design email
  

  Comments
• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

  Comments
• Write for people
  

  practices vibecoding
  

  Comments

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

• python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
  

  python
  

  Comments
• EuroZig
  

  zig
  

  Comments
• GitHub Stacks in Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• I want extern "fil-c"
  

  c rust
  

  Comments
• Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
  

  databases
  

  Comments
• On AI Coding and Its Discontents
  

  practices testing vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
  

  graphics web
  

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• Unlocking _everything_ on the CPU with DRAM scrambling
  

  security
  

  Comments
• A critical review of Xilem in 2026
  

  rust
  

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• My Anti AI computer
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
  

  practices vibecoding
  

  Comments
• What’s new in Flutter 3.47
  

  release
  

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