The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• NetHack 5.0.0
  

  games release
  

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• Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
  

  programming
  

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• The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
  

  a11y
  

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• A GitHub for maintainers
  

  vcs
  

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• Fake Notepad++ for Mac
  

  editors mac web
  

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• Unsigned sizes: a five year mistake
  

  c plt
  

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• pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
  

  databases
  

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• My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS
  

  linux systemd
  

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• Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Servers with Personality
  

  hardware networking
  

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• This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code
  

  assembly wasm
  

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• GIT - the stupid content tracker
  

  vcs
  

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

• I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden
  

  security
  

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• Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages
  

  programming
  

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• What Conferences are You Excited to Attend in the Next 12 Months?
  

  ask event
  

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• What fun websites do you know?
  

  ask web
  

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• NHS Goes To War Against Open Source
  

  ai security
  

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• Screw you Realtek
  

  linux networking vibecoding
  

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• XITLOG - patch-based merging is now enabled by default
  

  vcs
  

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• stackless coroutines for gamedev in ~200 lines of C++
  

  c++ games
  

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• PEP 661 – Sentinel Values, accepted 5 years later
  

  python
  

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• Why TUIs are back
  

  design
  

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• Protect Your Shed
  

  practices programming
  

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• Progressive Web Components
  

  javascript vibecoding web
  

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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 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
  

  compsci programming
  

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• I don't care that it's X times faster
  

  performance rant
  

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• Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters
  

  compilers
  

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• Things you didn't know about indexes
  

  databases
  

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• Saying Goodbye to Agile
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
  

  law
  

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• The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client
  

  web
  

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• Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
  

  security
  

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• Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
  

  c
  

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• My PR has been waiting a year, or the exponential curve behind open source backlogs
  

  programming
  

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• SDL3 - Add DOS platform support
  

  c games programming retrocomputing
  

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• TruffleRuby 34: full Ruby 3.4 compatibility, up to 23% faster parsing, and a new Prism-based Ripper with 20x speedups
  

  release ruby
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• unnix: Reproducible Nix environments without installing Nix
  

  nix
  

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• Easters - an adventofcode-like challenge for easter
  

  show event games programming
  

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• DPI bypass using eBPF sock_ops and fake TLS ClientHello injection
  

  c linux networking security
  

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• Mvidia: A game where you build a GPU
  

  graphics hardware
  

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• Parsing AsciiDoc in Prolog
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Packaging and Init Systems
  

  linux rant
  

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• Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector
  

  linux practices
  

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• Components of A Coding Agent
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Make your own ColecoVision at home, part 5
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Accumulated Test Vectors
  

  cryptography testing
  

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• Growing Yggdrasil, the World Tree, with Ash
  

  elixir web
  

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