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

• Deleteduser.com —a $15 PII Magnet
  

  security
  

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• Why is IPv6 so complicated?
  

  networking
  

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• SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_`
  

  databases
  

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• It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation Data
  

  privacy
  

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• A simplified model of Fil-C
  

  c
  

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• Towards Trust in Emacs
  

  emacs
  

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• Practical Antiforgery in Software Design
  

  design security
  

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• An early look at tailscale-rs, a tsnet library in Rust
  

  networking rust
  

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• How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ frontend infrastructure in Rust
  

  c++ rust web
  

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• State of Kdenlive - 2026
  

  release
  

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• The lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie
  

  pdf unix
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The age of snarky UI
  

  design rant
  

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• IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
  

  networking
  

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• AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
  

  practices
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.95.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
  

  windows
  

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• I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Let Sleeping CPUs Lie — S0ix
  

  freebsd hardware
  

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• Modern Common Lisp with FSet
  

  book lisp
  

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• Stop using JWTs
  

  security
  

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• Xata: Open source Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero
  

  databases
  

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• Mastodon: Don't use "mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names
  

  distributed
  

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• Too much Discussion of the XOR swap trick
  

  programming
  

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