The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
  

  nix
  

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• They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore
  

  editors rant
  

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• some software talks i like
  

  programming
  

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• Assembly Hall of Shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance
  

  hardware
  

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• PS3 emulation is fast on ARM now
  

  video assembly performance
  

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• Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven
  

  practices python science
  

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• From constraint models to playable puzzle games
  

  programming
  

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• I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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• Amiga August 2026 Update
  

  historical osdev
  

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• ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’
  

  video historical
  

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• AI & The University
  

  video education vibecoding
  

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• "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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

• Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter
  

  web
  

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• Postmortem for Lean Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
  

  formalmethods plt
  

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• sizeof is surprisingly difficult to parse in c
  

  c
  

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• A week in Matrix
  

  distributed rant
  

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• Resigning from Arch Linux
  

  linux person
  

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• An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust
  

  rust unix
  

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• Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• But can your calculator run Linux?
  

  hardware linux
  

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• The Fixi Project
  

  web
  

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• Where's your website?
  

  culture
  

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• LLMs won't break symmetric crypto
  

  cryptography vibecoding
  

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• Test the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial
  

  browsers email
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior
  

  c++
  

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• First CHERIoT Silicon
  

  hardware
  

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• What side projects have you enjoyed the most?
  

  ask programming
  

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• deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
  

  hardware
  

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• The AI Aesthetic
  

  design vibecoding
  

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• Some notes about Anthropic’s new results
  

  cryptography vibecoding
  

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• basebrowserproject
  

  browsers
  

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• Setting timers in simple games (feat. the frame rule)
  

  games
  

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• Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
  

  vcs
  

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• GNU Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse
  

  emacs
  

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• PostgreSQL MVCC: tradeoffs compared to other engines
  

  databases
  

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• Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs
  

  linux rust
  

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

• Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation
  

  compilers performance zig
  

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• Framework 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
  

  hardware
  

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• Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk
  

  graphics
  

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• Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD
  

  openbsd web
  

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• Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly
  

  browsers
  

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• Finding bugs in Raft implementations
  

  distributed testing
  

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• Quick & Easy Parser Combinators
  

  programming
  

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• I Designed A Custom PCB To Avoid Pressing A Button Three Times
  

  c hardware reversing
  

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• Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1
  

  historical windows
  

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• Seriously, what is the large code-model even for?
  

  assembly compilers
  

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• Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s fleet management platform to gain control over all users and vehicles
  

  security
  

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• What even are microservices?
  

  distributed philosophy
  

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

• On AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious
  

  education
  

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• Most Googlebots are fake
  

  networking
  

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• How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Paged Out - Issue #9
  

  release security
  

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• Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
  

  culture practices
  

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• The Productivity Mirage
  

  practices programming
  

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• What does GitHub’s security team even do?
  

  security vcs
  

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• lobste.rs ~~has~~had a js-error: here is a mitigation
  

  meta javascript
  

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• Xavier Leroy on programming, languages and formal verification
  

  video formalmethods ml
  

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• PGSimCity: How PostgreSQL Works, in 3D
  

  databases
  

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• Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
  

  hardware
  

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