The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess"
  

  practices
  

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• OxiSH: SSH server written in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Curl Performance
  

  performance
  

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• A preview of Roc 0.1.0
  

  video compsci
  

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• The Art of CHIP-8
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024)
  

  video databases
  

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• A long division story
  

  compsci math
  

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• RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
  

  assembly compilers rant
  

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• SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public git repositories
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
  

  design email
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Write for people
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
  

  web
  

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• Postmortem for Lean Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
  

  formalmethods plt
  

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• sizeof is surprisingly difficult to parse in c
  

  c
  

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• A week in Matrix
  

  distributed rant
  

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• Resigning from Arch Linux
  

  linux person
  

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• An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust
  

  rust unix
  

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• Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• But can your calculator run Linux?
  

  hardware linux
  

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• The Fixi Project
  

  web
  

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• Where's your website?
  

  culture
  

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• LLMs won't break symmetric crypto
  

  cryptography vibecoding
  

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• Test the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial
  

  browsers email
  

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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
  

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• 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 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Don't take the black pill
  

  video culture
  

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• Making GIFs from 35mm film photography
  

  art
  

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• You should selfhost your mail (in 2026)
  

  email
  

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• Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out
  

  video c c++
  

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• FreeBSD ports frozen after someone commits the entire 150MB Linux Copilot binary
  

  freebsd
  

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• Software Should Work Worked
  

  event
  

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• Jolt: running Clojure on Chez Scheme
  

  clojure lisp programming vibecoding
  

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• On Accountability
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The PImpl idiom and the C++26 std::indirect type
  

  c++
  

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• Prompt Caching In Agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Spatial languages: writing code in 2D
  

  plt
  

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• The case for MUDs in modern times
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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