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

• Toggles Considered Harmful
  

  design
  

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• Firefox Containers Preview
  

  browsers
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed
  

  nix
  

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• I got an email about resistance
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• a pure css implementation of some sunlight streaming in through the window
  

  css design web
  

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• Django is moving to an annual release cycle
  

  python release web
  

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• GitHub Actions needs OIDC audience constraints
  

  security
  

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• How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets
  

  privacy security
  

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• IBM i (OS/400) The Database Operating System
  

  osdev
  

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• an ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed
  

  c
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• help wanted
  

  rant satire vibecoding
  

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• Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation)
  

  culture
  

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• Don't be a meat proxy
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Kill the Cookie Banner
  

  law privacy
  

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• 9front "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" Released
  

  art release
  

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• Faster floating point math with Rust’s new API
  

  performance rust
  

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• Your JSON Is Lying to You
  

  javascript
  

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• I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence
  

  performance vibecoding
  

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• Getting Started with Google Wave (2010)
  

  video design
  

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• Rust Project Goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
  

  rust
  

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• How fast is C++26’s std::hive?
  

  c++
  

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• Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy (2000)
  

  practices
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior
  

  c++
  

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• First CHERIoT Silicon
  

  hardware
  

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• What side projects have you enjoyed the most?
  

  ask programming
  

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• deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
  

  hardware
  

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• The AI Aesthetic
  

  design vibecoding
  

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• Some notes about Anthropic’s new results
  

  cryptography vibecoding
  

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• basebrowserproject
  

  browsers
  

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• Setting timers in simple games (feat. the frame rule)
  

  games
  

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• Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
  

  vcs
  

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• GNU Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse
  

  emacs
  

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• PostgreSQL MVCC: tradeoffs compared to other engines
  

  databases
  

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• Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs
  

  linux rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
  

  culture ruby
  

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• State of multi-player Wayland
  

  linux
  

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• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The mean means nothing
  

  performance
  

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• User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
  

  art design
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy (2025)
  

  programming
  

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• Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification
  

  compilers formalmethods ml plt
  

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• Manganin: tools matter
  

  vcs zig
  

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• Overengineered calculator: Zig + QBE
  

  compilers zig
  

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• A field day for Gleam’s language server | Gleam v.1.18.0 release
  

  gleam release
  

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• Dependency Cultures - Richard Feldman (Software Should Work Conf 2026)
  

  video practices programming
  

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• Building (systems) software with Nix
  

  nix osdev
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Calm technologies that excite me
  

  hardware
  

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• I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
  

  security
  

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• Justif: Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web
  

  show design vibecoding web
  

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• Everyone Should Know SIMD
  

  performance zig
  

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• John C. Dvorak has died
  

  person
  

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• Why care about programming languages
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Your analytics are lying to you
  

  web
  

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• Taking OCaml and Eio for a spin
  

  ml
  

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• Unicode Variation Selector-15 and some of my tears
  

  programming
  

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• Silent Replacement of Trusted macOS App Executables
  

  mac security
  

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• Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
  

  c++ graphics
  

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