The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
  

  security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.98.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Better Batteries
  

  plt programming
  

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• Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
  

  historical osdev retrocomputing
  

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• Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE
  

  linux osdev
  

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• Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
  

  rust
  

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• Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
  

  emacs
  

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• Opus is a minimal, statically-scoped Lisp dialect based on the semantics of f-expressions (the Kernel language)
  

  haskell lisp
  

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• Felony Bench: Be AI, Do Crime
  

  ai
  

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• Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk ̶m̶y̶ ̶e̶x̶ a friend, cause I can
  

  reversing
  

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• Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How a joke domain purchase turned into geopolitical warfare
  

  security
  

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• Supply chain attack on arrayref
  

  rust security
  

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• Bun 1.4
  

  javascript vibecoding
  

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• What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Ploopy A+ (external trackball)
  

  hardware
  

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• Reclaim the terminal
  

  rust unix
  

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• AliExpress keeps multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Why compiling Rust to WebAssembly is slow
  

  rust wasm
  

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• Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys
  

  programming
  

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• Solo: a .so loader for static Linux binaries
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped—Everyone Is Wrong
  

  assembly plt
  

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• Things I want in a modern relational query language
  

  databases plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Does it make sense to switch to a Github Alternative ?
  

  ask programming
  

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• GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
  

  vcs
  

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• A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
  

  databases
  

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• When the Down Arrow is not an Upside-Down Up Arrow (2022)
  

  web
  

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• Passphrase-less reboots using kexec under NixOS
  

  linux nix security
  

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• People of ACM - Russ Cox
  

  go person
  

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• AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• You can just choose how many bugs you want now
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Writing a Fast Compiler
  

  compilers
  

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• Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms
  

  a11y design graphics
  

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• Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pony's Arena Allocator
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
  

  browsers
  

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• ActivityPub Won by Being Boring
  

  distributed web
  

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• Why I remain a skeptic
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Everything is about to “go dark”
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine
  

  games
  

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• RVA23 vs ARMv9 a Small Experiment
  

  assembly
  

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• Comments in the code vs PR description
  

  practices vcs
  

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• There Is Still No Silver Bullet
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• We implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in the Linux Kernel, Musl Libc, and BGP
  

  linux networking vibecoding
  

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• How Is Compression Prediction?
  

  math
  

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• Computing graph dominators
  

  compsci
  

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• Serokell’s Work on GHC: Dependent Types, Part 5
  

  haskell
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm done using AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
  

  databases
  

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• Guide to (not) fucking up QR codes
  

  design
  

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• I hate packaging my software for Linux
  

  linux
  

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• The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of
  

  performance
  

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• Compression is prediction
  

  programming
  

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• Analyzing My Lobsters Submissions
  

  visualization
  

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• Introducing Automatic Key Verification
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem
  

  devops security
  

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• Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
  

  compilers games
  

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• Making [etched] holograms with a pen plotter
  

  show art graphics math
  

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• fearless_simd v0.7: 64-bit integers, improved generics, SSE2, and upcoming v1.0
  

  release rust
  

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