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 July 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
  

  historical
  

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• The git history command deserves more attention
  

  vcs
  

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• Hating AI in 2026
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Estimating the heights of New Yorkers from their scuff marks
  

  visualization
  

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• git-absorb: git commit --fixup, but automatic
  

  vcs
  

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• whatcable: macOS menu bar app that tells you, in plain English, what each USB-C cable plugged into your Mac can actually do
  

  hardware mac vibecoding
  

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• Engineering High-Performance Parsers with Data-Oriented Design
  

  performance
  

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• Control the ideas, not the code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Too many words about DIDs
  

  distributed web
  

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• 6× faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy
  

  performance rust
  

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• Job queues are deceptively tricky
  

  distributed practices
  

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• Go-flavored concurrency in C
  

  c go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Odin 1.0 Announcement
  

  video plt programming
  

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• Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Together for a healthier Clippy
  

  rust
  

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• ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Project Now Capable Of Running Half-Life 2
  

  windows
  

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• The (Petty) Reason We Didn't End Up Using jj
  

  java windows
  

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• Radicle: P2P Git Replication with Git Native Issues and Patches
  

  vcs
  

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• Why false sharing alignment should be 128 bytes on x64
  

  performance
  

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• Waterfall CAD Playground - A Haskell powered programmable-CAD environment, in the browser with WASM
  

  graphics haskell
  

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• You shouldn't trust Trusted Publishing
  

  python security
  

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• OpenSSH 10.4
  

  release
  

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• Compiling a Go program into a native binary for Nintendo Switch (2022)
  

  games go
  

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• Caught a .git/config crawler
  

  networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects
  

  plt
  

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• The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal
  

  ml
  

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• Guards! Guards
  

  elixir
  

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• How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout
  

  databases
  

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• Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
  

  openbsd retrocomputing
  

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• It's dead, Jim! (UEFI CA expiry)
  

  linux security
  

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• Shard your locks: benchmarking 6 Go cache designs
  

  go performance
  

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• Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet oomwoo
  

  hardware vibecoding
  

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• The Old Computer Challenge
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Installing SerenityOS on My Old ThinkPad T60
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• What does it mean to be a mathematician when AI does the math?
  

  ai math
  

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• A Typed, Algebraic Approach to Parsing (2019)
  

  pdf plt
  

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

• NLNet Labs LLM Policy
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A peek into Reddit's anti-spam internals
  

  privacy security
  

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• Data Access Patterns That Makes Your CPU Really Angry
  

  c c++ performance
  

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• Text files as a user interface
  

  practices programming
  

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• OpenZL
  

  compsci performance
  

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• ARIA, anti-patterns, and you
  

  a11y web
  

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• Excessive nil pointer checks in Go
  

  go
  

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• Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More
  

  linux
  

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• Making devenv start fast, and the whole nixpkgs with it - devenv
  

  nix
  

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• "How to Think About AI": Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More
  

  video ai philosophy
  

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• FIFA Interactive Bracket (World Cup)
  

  show web
  

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• Visual Basic on the PC w/Windows 3.1
  

  retrocomputing windows
  

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