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

• Ascetic Computing
  

  practices
  

  Comments
• Git Is Not Fine
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• Announcing the Zulip Foundation
  

  programming
  

  Comments
• 5× faster fast_blur in image-rs
  

  math programming rust
  

  Comments
• Open Source Resistance
  

  practices
  

  Comments
• My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

  Comments
• The CTF scene is dead
  

  security vibecoding
  

  Comments
• A History of IDEs at Google
  

  editors programming
  

  Comments
• Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
  

  web windows
  

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• why use F# for scripting and automation?
  

  dotnet ml
  

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• A few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS
  

  css
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered
  

  compsci performance
  

  Comments
• Erlang/OTP 29.0 Release
  

  erlang
  

  Comments
• The Most Emacs Bzr Saga
  

  emacs historical vcs
  

  Comments
• What is BusyBox?
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain
  

  web
  

  Comments
• MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop For The Rest Of Us
  

  hardware mac
  

  Comments
• The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
  

  retrocomputing
  

  Comments
• An update on East River Source Control availability
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• A detailed introduction to Kakoune for the aspiring power user
  

  editors
  

  Comments
• Killing a `Cow` made my JSON formatter 42% faster
  

  performance rust
  

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• Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic
  

  android security
  

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

• Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
  

  security vibecoding
  

  Comments
• let-go: Almost Clojure written in Go
  

  clojure go lisp vibecoding
  

  Comments
• the 90 day disclosure policy is dead
  

  security
  

  Comments
• Ratty: A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
  

  show graphics rust vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Fully Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

  Comments
• You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Childhood Computing
  

  culture person
  

  Comments
• Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare
  

  video security
  

  Comments
• Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot
  

  emacs
  

  Comments
• Gram 2.0.0 released
  

  editors release
  

  Comments
• The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival
  

  design
  

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• My pastebin clone Vivipara and language musings
  

  programming web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Multi-stroke text effect in CSS
  

  css design
  

  Comments
• Building the deployment tool I wish I had
  

  devops release vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Principia Softwarica
  

  osdev
  

  Comments
• Go is FIPS 140-3 certified
  

  cryptography go
  

  Comments
• krabby: making a fast Rust compiler
  

  compilers rust
  

  Comments
• SLAM: s6/synit based NixOS
  

  nix osdev
  

  Comments
• iPhone dumbphone
  

  ios
  

  Comments
• The vi family
  

  editors
  

  Comments
• Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/ac/ax/be/bn)
  

  networking
  

  Comments
• How an HTTP header caused time.gov to skew from UTC
  

  web
  

  Comments
• A dispute over the TAB key between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures
  

  historical
  

  Comments
• One week of view_types
  

  plt rust
  

  Comments

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
  

  Comments
• Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
  

  programming
  

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

  a11y
  

  Comments
• A GitHub for maintainers
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• Fake Notepad++ for Mac
  

  editors mac web
  

  Comments
• Unsigned sizes: a five year mistake
  

  c plt
  

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• pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
  

  databases
  

  Comments
• My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS
  

  linux systemd
  

  Comments
• Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out
  

  programming vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Servers with Personality
  

  hardware networking
  

  Comments
• This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code
  

  assembly wasm
  

  Comments
• GIT - the stupid content tracker
  

  vcs
  

  Comments