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

• Don't Roll Your Own …
  

  rant web
  

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• Jira is Turing-Complete
  

  compsci
  

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• Planescape: Torment, Part 1: From the Tabletop
  

  games historical
  

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• The mysterious XF86AudioPlay issue
  

  linux
  

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• This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Wayland compositor implemented as a mod in Minecraft
  

  graphics linux
  

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• A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto
  

  cryptography formalmethods
  

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• Hershey is a textual vector font format
  

  art graphics
  

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• mvm - a fast virtual machine for Go
  

  go
  

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• CVE-2026-46529: 10-year-old RCE in Linux PDF Viewer (XReader/Evince/Atril)
  

  linux security
  

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• The Maintainer's Dilemma
  

  vibecoding
  

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• On the <dl>
  

  a11y web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations
  

  law
  

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• Type out the code
  

  programming
  

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• OpenBSD 7.9 released
  

  openbsd release
  

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• Introducing Casuarina Linux: A glibc-Based Chimera Linux Derivative
  

  linux
  

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• Programming as Theory Building (1985)
  

  pdf practices programming
  

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• CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github
  

  security
  

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• My domain got abused on Github Pages
  

  security
  

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• Better generated branch names with jj
  

  vcs
  

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• The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention
  

  plt
  

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• The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
  

  practices
  

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• How we used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso
  

  databases formalmethods
  

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• What would you want from a forge?
  

  ask design vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine
  

  hardware rust
  

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• Zed is 1.0
  

  editors rust
  

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• Bugs Rust Won't Catch
  

  rust
  

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• Why I Still Reach for Lisp (& Scheme) Instead of Haskell
  

  haskell lisp programming
  

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• Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can’t
  

  mac netbsd
  

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• The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS
  

  web
  

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• FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
  

  networking
  

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• KDE’s 30th anniversary
  

  linux release
  

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• Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions
  

  linux security
  

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• Illegal vs Unwanted States
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig
  

  haskell zig
  

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

• Niri v26.04
  

  linux release rust
  

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• From Milliseconds to 26 Nanoseconds: How a $20 eBay SFP Module Beat My Entire NTP Setup
  

  hardware
  

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• Wasm is not quite a stack machine
  

  plt wasm
  

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• Email is crazy
  

  email networking security
  

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• HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle
  

  freebsd vcs
  

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• "Why not just use Lean?"
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (Bill Joy, 2000)
  

  philosophy
  

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• (Cryptographic) Registries Considered Harmful (2020)
  

  cryptography
  

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• httpxyz one month in
  

  python
  

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• The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
  

  games performance programming
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• HTML written only using the C preprocessor
  

  c
  

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

• Servo 0.1.0 (first LTS version) is now available on crates.io
  

  browsers release web
  

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• Forgejo monthly report - March 2026
  

  vcs
  

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• All elementary functions from a single binary operator
  

  math
  

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• Bring Back Idiomatic Design
  

  design
  

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• Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug
  

  formalmethods plt security vibecoding
  

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• The Business Case for Vanilla JS
  

  javascript
  

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• Programming used to be free
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Did you notice the command error exit in the shell?
  

  linux
  

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• Native Raspberry Pi 3b version of the Oberon System 3
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Configuration flags are where software goes to rot
  

  programming
  

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• GitHub Stacked PRs
  

  vcs
  

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• Little LaTeX Pearls
  

  math
  

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