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 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Native all the way, until you need text
  

  mac swift
  

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• The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means
  

  cryptography security
  

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• New design for the FreeBSD website
  

  design freebsd
  

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• Go European — Discover European products and services
  

  culture privacy
  

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• Coding on Paper
  

  hardware
  

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• Recent Kernel exploits, attack surface reduction, example IPSEC
  

  linux networking security
  

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• Subscription Bombing: Email under Attack
  

  email
  

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• Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Don't answer the first question
  

  practices
  

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• Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• How to Write to SSDs
  

  pdf databases
  

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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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