The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Debian must ship reproducible packages
  

  linux
  

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• Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
  

  performance rust
  

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• Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days
  

  hardware security
  

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• So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? (2023)
  

  programming
  

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• Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off
  

  practices
  

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• The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
  

  culture rant
  

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• Fixing QuickLook (2023)
  

  mac reversing
  

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• The React2Shell Story and What Happened Next.js
  

  security
  

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• FreeBSD: Local privilege escalation via execve()
  

  freebsd security
  

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• wayland.fyi minimalist wayland special interest group
  

  linux
  

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• AI is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Point-Free Logic Programming
  

  logiclangs
  

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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 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The age of snarky UI
  

  design rant
  

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• IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
  

  networking
  

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• AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
  

  practices
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.95.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
  

  windows
  

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• I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Let Sleeping CPUs Lie — S0ix
  

  freebsd hardware
  

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• Modern Common Lisp with FSet
  

  book lisp
  

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• Stop using JWTs
  

  security
  

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• Xata: Open source Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero
  

  databases
  

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• Mastodon: Don't use "mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names
  

  distributed
  

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• Too much Discussion of the XOR swap trick
  

  programming
  

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

• SQLite 3.53.0
  

  databases release
  

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• I Just Want Simple S3
  

  osdev scaling
  

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• A bet on whether ML-KEM-768 or X25519 will break first
  

  cryptography
  

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• 20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job
  

  freebsd
  

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• Advanced Mac Substitute
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• The difficulty of making sure your website is broken
  

  web
  

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• In defense of GitHub's poor uptime
  

  culture devops
  

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• Windows Defender is being used to hack Windows
  

  security windows
  

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• The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer
  

  compilers
  

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• Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too)
  

  emacs vcs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• watgo - a WebAssembly Toolkit for Go
  

  go wasm
  

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

• Try not to get scammed while looking for work
  

  security
  

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• rack-mount hydroponics
  

  hardware
  

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• Why I Love FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Gleam v1.15.0 released
  

  gleam
  

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• Reviewing large changes with Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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• LLM time
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• AI is making CEOs delusional
  

  video rant vibecoding
  

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• Introducing pgtui, a Postgres TUI client
  

  databases rust
  

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• A Linux distribution designed to eliminate single points of failure
  

  linux privacy security
  

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• Good Haskell Libraries
  

  haskell
  

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• How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?
  

  finance law
  

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• A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm
  

  networking
  

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