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

• LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
  

  meta philosophy
  

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• linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
  

  linux security
  

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• In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
  

  privacy security
  

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• Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
  

  web
  

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• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  

  culture practices
  

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• How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
  

  privacy
  

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• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
  

  css
  

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• Volkswagen- detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2015)
  

  javascript satire testing
  

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• PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs
  

  databases
  

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• SQL: Incorrect by Construction
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
  

  design historical
  

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• Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
  

  browsers web
  

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• Hoot 0.9.0 released
  

  lisp release wasm
  

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• Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
  

  windows
  

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• Fragnesia: New Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit
  

  linux security
  

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• YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability
  

  security windows
  

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• 5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake
  

  plt web
  

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• Lua as a practical "soft-bedrock" language
  

  lua practices
  

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• Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability
  

  security
  

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• "This is written by an LLM" comments should be flagged as off-topic
  

  meta
  

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• httpx2 - Fork by Pydantic
  

  python
  

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

• Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
  

  linux
  

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• what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered
  

  compsci performance
  

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• Erlang/OTP 29.0 Release
  

  erlang
  

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• The Most Emacs Bzr Saga
  

  emacs historical vcs
  

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• What is BusyBox?
  

  linux
  

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• Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain
  

  web
  

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• MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop For The Rest Of Us
  

  hardware mac
  

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• The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• An update on East River Source Control availability
  

  vcs
  

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• A detailed introduction to Kakoune for the aspiring power user
  

  editors
  

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• Killing a `Cow` made my JSON formatter 42% faster
  

  performance rust
  

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• Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic
  

  android security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Debian must ship reproducible packages
  

  linux
  

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• Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
  

  performance rust
  

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• Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days
  

  hardware security
  

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• So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? (2023)
  

  programming
  

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• Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off
  

  practices
  

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• The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
  

  culture rant
  

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• Fixing QuickLook (2023)
  

  mac reversing
  

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• The React2Shell Story and What Happened Next.js
  

  security
  

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• FreeBSD: Local privilege escalation via execve()
  

  freebsd security
  

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• wayland.fyi minimalist wayland special interest group
  

  linux
  

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• AI is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Point-Free Logic Programming
  

  logiclangs
  

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

• cursed_browser: A web browser with no rendering engine — the VLM reads the HTML and hallucinates the page
  

  browsers satire vibecoding
  

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• Programming Still Sucks
  

  culture practices
  

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• Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem
  

  ai
  

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• Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
  

  linux security
  

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• jj v0.41.0 is out
  

  release vcs
  

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• AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A PHP license change is imminent
  

  law php
  

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• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
  

  browsers security vibecoding
  

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• Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC
  

  video emacs lisp
  

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• Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)
  

  plt
  

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• The Original Super Mario 64 Is Now Playable On GBA
  

  games
  

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