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

• Being kicked out of the tech industry
  

  person
  

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• Creepy crawlies
  

  devops linux
  

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• How I made Rustdoc 33% faster in one week
  

  performance rust
  

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• LLM usage in Debian neither endorsed nor prohibited
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• How cats.txt showed llms.txt evidence is GEO astrology
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV (2020)
  

  programming
  

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• Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
  

  ml security vibecoding
  

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• GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
  

  programming
  

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• A Perfect SimCity
  

  games retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Debian and the sirens
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Zero-Cost 'Tagless Final' in Rust with GADT-style Enums
  

  rust
  

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• I naively tried vibe-coding a memory tool for agents and stared into the abyss of unsolved problems in philosophy
  

  philosophy practices vibecoding
  

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

• It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
  

  culture ruby
  

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• State of multi-player Wayland
  

  linux
  

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• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The mean means nothing
  

  performance
  

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• User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
  

  art design
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy (2025)
  

  programming
  

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• Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification
  

  compilers formalmethods ml plt
  

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• Manganin: tools matter
  

  vcs zig
  

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• Overengineered calculator: Zig + QBE
  

  compilers zig
  

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• A field day for Gleam’s language server | Gleam v.1.18.0 release
  

  gleam release
  

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• Dependency Cultures - Richard Feldman (Software Should Work Conf 2026)
  

  video practices programming
  

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• Building (systems) software with Nix
  

  nix osdev
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• On AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Blogging Can Just Be Stating The Obvious
  

  education
  

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• Most Googlebots are fake
  

  networking
  

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• How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Paged Out - Issue #9
  

  release security
  

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• Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
  

  culture practices
  

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• The Productivity Mirage
  

  practices programming
  

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• What does GitHub’s security team even do?
  

  security vcs
  

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• lobste.rs ~~has~~had a js-error: here is a mitigation
  

  meta javascript
  

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• Xavier Leroy on programming, languages and formal verification
  

  video formalmethods ml
  

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• PGSimCity: How PostgreSQL Works, in 3D
  

  databases
  

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• Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone
  

  hardware
  

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

• Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Calm technologies that excite me
  

  hardware
  

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• I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
  

  security
  

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• Justif: Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web
  

  show design vibecoding web
  

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• Everyone Should Know SIMD
  

  performance zig
  

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• John C. Dvorak has died
  

  person
  

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• Why care about programming languages
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Your analytics are lying to you
  

  web
  

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• Taking OCaml and Eio for a spin
  

  ml
  

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• Unicode Variation Selector-15 and some of my tears
  

  programming
  

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• Silent Replacement of Trusted macOS App Executables
  

  mac security
  

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• Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++
  

  c++ graphics
  

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

• I wrote an API client for my water-cooled bed
  

  hardware zig
  

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• Gitolite
  

  practices vcs
  

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• Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust
  

  ml rust
  

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• InvisiCaps: The Fil-C Capability Model
  

  c compilers
  

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• Minimal Git CI using hooks
  

  programming
  

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• Cagire - Forth-based live coding sequencer
  

  concatenative
  

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• Git email patch review addon for Thunderbird
  

  show email vcs vibecoding
  

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• email encryption
  

  cryptography email
  

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• Running microVMs in Proxmox VE, The Easy Way
  

  linux virtualization
  

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• Building an AmigaOS Development Environment in 2026
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Shake Blog
  

  haskell release
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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