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

• Why are we even doing all this?
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Linus Torvalds on AI-assisted kernel contributions
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Forgejo v17.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• On the technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC
  

  science
  

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• The road to iroh 1.0
  

  networking
  

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• Religious Studies In Software Engineering
  

  culture philosophy
  

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• The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
  

  cryptography
  

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• Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
  

  art
  

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• Epic's EAC2 v2 seems fairly easily bypassable
  

  linux security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.99.1
  

  release rust
  

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• Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from? (2009)
  

  historical windows
  

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• Gleam case exhaustiveness, as a fan
  

  compilers gleam
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Who is vfmaddrnd231pd??
  

  assembly
  

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• A plea not to use uv-build
  

  devops python
  

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• Did Ente Locker copy my code without attribution?
  

  law
  

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• The reverts will continue until morale improves
  

  databases
  

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• Speeding up the Unreal editor by… not using unnecessarily secure hash methods
  

  performance
  

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• Where is all the new, good software?
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• A slightly faster slimmer curl
  

  performance
  

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• your c is not standard c
  

  c
  

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• Lotus Improv on the NeXT
  

  historical
  

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• What I've been seeing lately (in software)
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Parsing JSON at tens of gigabytes per second… in Python
  

  python
  

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

• I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here
  

  culture
  

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• What's Wrong with GitHub
  

  vcs
  

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• LineageOS 24.0 released
  

  android mobile release
  

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• How big is a Git commit?
  

  vcs
  

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• I'm sorry, but you still have to think
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
  

  compilers plt
  

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• D-Bus Hell
  

  person satire
  

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• How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups
  

  databases performance
  

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• Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Kiesel Devlog #15: Release 0.4.0
  

  javascript zig
  

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• The 2D physics prototype behind GTA’s vehicles
  

  games
  

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• Why 'externalized' proofs of cyclic trait impls does not work
  

  rust
  

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

• Calling a function in C without naming it
  

  c security
  

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• The people holding up the internet
  

  historical web
  

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• I've Been Deindexed by Google
  

  practices
  

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• An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• Creating distro build tooling for a small community
  

  linux
  

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• jujutsu (jj) 0.46.0
  

  release vcs
  

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• rat's minimal register allocator
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Gentoo infrastructure sponsors wanted
  

  linux
  

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• Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities
  

  release security
  

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• Ending the Casuarina Linux Experiment
  

  linux
  

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• Zeroization, part 1: Wiping can make things worse
  

  compilers security
  

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• Beyond the &
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
  

  android
  

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• The Story of Mel
  

  assembly historical
  

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• Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
  

  design
  

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• SAML: A fractal of bad design
  

  rant security
  

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• I want my mesh networks to be signed, not encrypted
  

  cryptography networking
  

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• I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB
  

  vibecoding
  

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• F-Droid 2.0
  

  android
  

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• Do not let your type system reason about aliasing in your programming language
  

  plt
  

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• Clankers Made Me Build a Second Brain
  

  vibecoding
  

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• SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py)
  

  security
  

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• Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History
  

  databases historical osdev
  

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• A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
  

  windows
  

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