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 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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You should probably check on your smart appliances
  

  security web
  

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• SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
  

  databases
  

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• FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
  

  freebsd
  

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• How I use HTMX with Go
  

  go web
  

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• The Memory Heist
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• qr-swastika-avoider v0.1.0
  

  rust
  

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• C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake
  

  c
  

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• How my images are dithered
  

  graphics
  

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• The Tower Keeps Rising
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Low Resource Computing 2026
  

  event
  

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• Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
  

  games linux
  

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• a bunch of stuff i used to not know about K&R C
  

  c historical
  

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

• Every Frame Perfect
  

  design graphics
  

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• Rejected Emoji Proposals
  

  programming
  

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• Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter
  

  mac swift
  

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• Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
  

  vibecoding
  

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• If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why I Wrote a Game Boy Advance Game in Zig (2024)
  

  games zig
  

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• Catjam 2026
  

  concatenative event games
  

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• Banning noise will be a disaster for statistical data products
  

  math privacy
  

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• repo-slopscore: Detecting AI/LLM contributions in git repositories via commit history analysis
  

  show rust vcs vibecoding
  

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• Opensource AI Must Win
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time
  

  databases
  

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• WASI 0.3 Launched
  

  wasm
  

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