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
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up
  

  networking security vibecoding
  

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• A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management
  

  c c++ programming satire
  

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• Lua can be a really cool HTML templating engine
  

  lua web
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.0
  

  linux release
  

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• Dillo release 3.3.0
  

  browsers release
  

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• It's OK To Use Floating Point for Money
  

  satire
  

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• It's OK to use coding assistance tools to revive the projects you never were going to finish
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Smolwebifying my site
  

  web
  

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• The fastest Linux timestamps
  

  linux performance
  

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• My Homemade PBX
  

  hardware
  

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• Swissing a table
  

  go
  

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• I have officially retired from Emacs
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
  

  plt vibecoding
  

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• I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants
  

  practices
  

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• Debian’s git transition
  

  linux vcs
  

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• I Program on the Subway
  

  programming
  

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• Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
  

  debugging
  

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• What’s new in Python 3.15
  

  python
  

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• Lua 5.5 Released
  

  lua release
  

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• ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun
  

  programming
  

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• Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java
  

  compilers emacs java
  

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• An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker
  

  linux
  

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• Inverse parentheses
  

  plt
  

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• The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
  

  retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My gift to the rustdoc team
  

  rust wasm
  

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• Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse
  

  cryptography
  

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• Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
  

  unix
  

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• Let's write a toy UI library
  

  programming
  

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• Top Gun's Carrier Landing: Exposed
  

  reversing
  

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• Rust's v0 mangling scheme in a nutshell
  

  rust
  

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• "Careless Whisper" side-channel attack affects WhatsApp and Signal
  

  security
  

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• L5: A Processing Library in Lua for Interactive Artwork
  

  graphics lua
  

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• Advent of Swift
  

  swift
  

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• Tier list of Linux security mechanisms (2024)
  

  linux security
  

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• ClickHaskell 1.0.0 is out
  

  haskell release
  

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• 30 Years of <br> Tags
  

  historical web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To
  

  practices
  

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• Rebecca Heineman - from homelessness to porting Doom
  

  transcript games
  

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• My next chapter with Mastodon
  

  person web
  

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• Chuck Moore retires from colorforth after latest Windows breaks rendering
  

  video concatenative
  

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• 6 years after too much crypto
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Announcing Lix 2.94 “Açaí na tigela”
  

  nix
  

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• A 450 KB static site generator based on Markdown and Lua
  

  show lua web
  

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• Garbage collection is useful
  

  programming
  

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• Add a VLAN to OPNsense in Just 26 Clicks Across 6 Screens
  

  networking rant
  

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• Sōzu HTTP reverse proxy
  

  devops rust
  

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• A 'small' vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS
  

  devops nix
  

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• How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
  

  games historical networking
  

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