The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• “Double Threat” to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcontrol.eu
  

  privacy
  

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• Ante: New Way to Blend Borrow Checking and Reference Counting
  

  compsci plt
  

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• When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter
  

  performance
  

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• Towards Understandable Software
  

  a11y
  

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• Tech Morality is Hard
  

  culture
  

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• HyperCard on the Macintosh
  

  historical mac
  

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• Loko Scheme 0.13.0
  

  lisp release
  

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• Introducing Test That
  

  rust testing
  

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• WATaBoy: JIT-ing Game Boy Instructions to Wasm Beats a Native Interpreter
  

  wasm
  

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• Canvas patch: we need testers
  

  emacs windows
  

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• Optimizing LLVM's bump allocator
  

  compilers
  

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• A Core Calculus for Documents (2024)
  

  pdf plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
  

  hardware
  

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• New @bitCast Semantics and LLVM Backend Improvements
  

  zig
  

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• Are We GlobalShortcuts Yet?
  

  a11y linux
  

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• font-family recommendations
  

  css
  

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• How to Write an Effective Software Design Document
  

  practices
  

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• The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Vibecoding gets Emacs patch rejected
  

  emacs vibecoding
  

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• Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name?
  

  historical practices
  

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• OS9Map: OpenStreetMap for Mac OS 9
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future
  

  python
  

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• Blåmba
  

  art historical
  

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• Ignore DNSSEC if you like MITM attacks
  

  networking security
  

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

• The Joy and Power of Understanding
  

  practices
  

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• Adversarial Communication
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• UK Wikipedia Workers seek union recognition
  

  practices
  

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• Flatpak package for GIMP 0.54.1 (1996)
  

  graphics retrocomputing
  

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• Legibility of Effort
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Porting WINE to a new Hobby OS
  

  osdev programming
  

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• RRB-Trees: Efficient Immutable Vectors
  

  programming
  

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• How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library
  

  debugging
  

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• how a stray "j" ruined my evening
  

  linux
  

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• AOL was down (1996) (2026)
  

  historical
  

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• Performance of WebAssembly runtimes in 2026
  

  wasm
  

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• The Coming Loop
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
  

  historical
  

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• The Low-Tech AI Of Elden Ring
  

  games
  

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• Rhombus v1.0: A Racket flavored language with syntax
  

  lisp plt
  

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• The curious history the invention of the CMD+K quick switcher
  

  historical mac
  

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• Please keep code descriptions simple
  

  programming
  

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• Keeping the Web Open and Private in the Bot Era
  

  browsers cryptography web
  

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• Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore
  

  security
  

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• Xfwl4's First Preview Release
  

  linux
  

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• Record type inference for dummies
  

  plt
  

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• It’s Only When You Look Back
  

  historical
  

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• British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
  

  databases
  

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• Computing Camera Rays
  

  graphics
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000
  

  design osdev
  

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• Godot 4.7: Lights, Camera, Action
  

  games release
  

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• The design of littlefs
  

  osdev
  

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• I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?
  

  nix performance
  

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• RFC 10008: The HTTP QUERY Method
  

  web
  

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• DiffsHub
  

  vcs
  

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• Shutting Down Fornjot
  

  rust
  

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• Vim Creator Bram Moolenaar's Forgotten Programming Language, Zimbu (2023)
  

  historical person plt
  

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• Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you
  

  design historical
  

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• offset_of! slices
  

  rust
  

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• I discovered a large-scale malware distribution on GitHub
  

  security
  

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• Stop Naming Your Variables "Flag": The Art of Boolean Prefixes
  

  practices
  

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