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

• And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
  

  philosophy privacy security
  

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• An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs
  

  emacs graphics
  

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• Hister - A private, full content search index that you control
  

  browsers web
  

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• A 2026 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
  

  rust
  

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• Linus Torvalds uses AI to debug an Intel GPU driver bug
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
  

  hardware rust
  

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• Stop Making TUIs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Are there any decent programs for pdf viewing and editing for Linux that replace Adobe Acrobat?
  

  ask linux programming
  

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• Programming Language Semantics and Memory Safety
  

  plt
  

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• My favorite Computer Science books, and why
  

  programming
  

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• It's OK. Do Your Thing
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
  

  security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.98.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Better Batteries
  

  plt programming
  

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• Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
  

  historical osdev retrocomputing
  

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• Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE
  

  linux osdev
  

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• Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
  

  rust
  

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• Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
  

  emacs
  

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• Opus is a minimal, statically-scoped Lisp dialect based on the semantics of f-expressions (the Kernel language)
  

  haskell lisp
  

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• Felony Bench: Be AI, Do Crime
  

  ai
  

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• Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk ̶m̶y̶ ̶e̶x̶ a friend, cause I can
  

  reversing
  

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• Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong
  

  c programming
  

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• Every Fucking Website
  

  satire vibecoding web
  

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• A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"
  

  a11y culture hardware
  

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• Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage
  

  rust
  

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• A Tour of Magit's Status Interface
  

  emacs vcs
  

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• Recap: Software Should Work 2026
  

  event programming
  

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• Zig Day Seattle, WA #3
  

  event zig
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode
  

  nix
  

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• What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI
  

  python
  

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• A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
  

  assembly c++ math performance
  

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• How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
  

  games networking programming
  

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• Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends
  

  vcs
  

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

• I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park
  

  satire
  

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• A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
  

  unix
  

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• Super Mario Derivations
  

  games nix retrocomputing
  

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• Taste Is All That's Left
  

  vibecoding
  

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• the web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
  

  web
  

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• Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD
  

  netbsd web
  

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• Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out
  

  practices
  

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• How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
  

  c games graphics retrocomputing
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Finally adding recursive functions to Futhark
  

  plt
  

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• cl-forth: Forth 2012 Standard in CL
  

  concatenative lisp
  

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• Some ways to navigate through 'git blame' over time in GNU Emacs
  

  emacs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are aggressively against LLM usage
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Offensive Internet Posture
  

  networking
  

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• Faster Than Ninja
  

  programming
  

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• irken: A tiny hackable full-featured IRC client
  

  programming
  

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• The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you
  

  a11y rant
  

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• Anti-fascist PieFed features
  

  culture web
  

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• Liquid Glass effect for GNU/Emacs
  

  emacs mac
  

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• Nix Overrides That Expire Themselves
  

  nix
  

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• designing a query system
  

  compilers rust
  

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• The Nix sandbox is a hidden input
  

  nix
  

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• Stop Sending Me Your Errors
  

  email rant
  

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