The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
  

  nix
  

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• They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore
  

  editors rant
  

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• some software talks i like
  

  programming
  

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• Assembly Hall of Shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance
  

  hardware
  

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• PS3 emulation is fast on ARM now
  

  video assembly performance
  

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• Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven
  

  practices python science
  

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• From constraint models to playable puzzle games
  

  programming
  

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• I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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• Amiga August 2026 Update
  

  historical osdev
  

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• ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’
  

  video historical
  

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• AI & The University
  

  video education vibecoding
  

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• "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• On AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious
  

  education
  

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• Most Googlebots are fake
  

  networking
  

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• How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Paged Out - Issue #9
  

  release security
  

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• Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
  

  culture practices
  

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• The Productivity Mirage
  

  practices programming
  

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• What does GitHub’s security team even do?
  

  security vcs
  

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• lobste.rs ~~has~~had a js-error: here is a mitigation
  

  meta javascript
  

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• Xavier Leroy on programming, languages and formal verification
  

  video formalmethods ml
  

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• PGSimCity: How PostgreSQL Works, in 3D
  

  databases
  

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• Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Memory Safety Absolutists
  

  c rust zig
  

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• Maybe we should revisit microkernels
  

  osdev
  

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• How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer
  

  practices
  

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• General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
  

  culture linux vibecoding
  

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• Emacs Writing Machine
  

  emacs linux
  

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• Teaching Kids Forth
  

  concatenative education
  

  Comments
• How to self-host servers in your living room on static IPs
  

  networking
  

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• Himalaya v2.0.0: CLI to manage emails
  

  email release rust vibecoding
  

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• Verse: A New Scripting Language
  

  video logiclangs plt
  

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• I'm running the ICFP programming contest
  

  event programming
  

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• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY Actually Scales
  

  databases
  

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• Delightful integration tests in Rust
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Magit 4.6 released
  

  emacs release
  

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• What should a personal website be?
  

  philosophy
  

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• Goodbye, forever, probably
  

  person
  

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• I Don't Maintain My Homelab
  

  devops
  

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• Do Wavy Walls Really Use Fewer Bricks? I Tested It in Blender
  

  art culture visualization
  

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• My favorite keyboards
  

  hardware
  

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• Why don't people use git properly?
  

  education practices vcs
  

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• Espionage Against the European Parliament: Member of Committee Investigating Spyware Hacked with Pegasus
  

  security
  

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• Fixing full-bleed CSS
  

  css design
  

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• Who's Hiring? - Support Edition - Q3 2026
  

  job
  

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• Developer Verification – LineageOS
  

  android culture
  

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• Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code
  

  plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• To my students
  

  education vibecoding
  

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• Winners of the 2025 International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC 29)
  

  c
  

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• How LLMs Actually Work
  

  ai
  

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• The User Doesn't Care - But you should
  

  practices
  

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• Ergonomic overrides for Nixpkgs
  

  nix plt
  

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• Moving beyond fork() + exec()
  

  unix
  

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• The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix derivations in Nix
  

  nix
  

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• ntsc-rs - an accurate VHS video effect
  

  graphics programming
  

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• It doesn’t always have to be Linux
  

  video freebsd
  

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• mold-desktop
  

  lisp osdev
  

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• Magecart skimmer turns Stripe into a malware command server
  

  security
  

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• A Little Explanation of Little's Law
  

  performance practices
  

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