The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Steering Zig Fmt
  

  zig
  

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• On forking the Web
  

  web
  

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• I learned something about GPUs today
  

  debugging graphics
  

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• I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs
  

  web
  

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• NixOS and Secrets
  

  nix
  

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• What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• jank now has its own custom IR
  

  c++ clojure lisp
  

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• WebRTC is the Problem
  

  networking
  

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• The `Sync` bound nobody asked for
  

  rust
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Wii IP6 webserver
  

  netbsd web
  

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

• Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine
  

  hardware rust
  

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• Zed is 1.0
  

  editors rust
  

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• Bugs Rust Won't Catch
  

  rust
  

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• Why I Still Reach for Lisp (& Scheme) Instead of Haskell
  

  haskell lisp programming
  

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• Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can’t
  

  mac netbsd
  

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• The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS
  

  web
  

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• FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
  

  networking
  

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• KDE’s 30th anniversary
  

  linux release
  

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• Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions
  

  linux security
  

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• Illegal vs Unwanted States
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig
  

  haskell zig
  

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

• How my side project got banned from the internet
  

  security
  

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• Mothlamp Problems
  

  philosophy
  

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• Accidentally disabling SSH access via scp
  

  linux
  

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• Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp 1st-person game (2017)
  

  graphics
  

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• Sliced by Go’s Slices
  

  go plt
  

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• “Our programs are fun to use.”
  

  culture design historical
  

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• Jails for NetBSD
  

  netbsd
  

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• Ordered Dithering with Arbitrary or Irregular Colour Palettes
  

  graphics
  

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• Open Source Endowment — World's First Endowment Fund for OSS
  

  finance
  

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• Allocating on the Stack
  

  go
  

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• OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation
  

  math performance
  

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• Please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data
  

  cryptography
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?
  

  email
  

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• What's your email setup?
  

  ask email
  

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• Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions
  

  netbsd
  

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• One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly (2022)
  

  historical scaling
  

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• Rust 1.93 performance improvements in format! and friends
  

  rust
  

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• Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons
  

  mac
  

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• Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The largest number representable in 64 bits
  

  math plt
  

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• The Retro Web
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
  

  law privacy security
  

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• Plasma Effect
  

  graphics
  

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• Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility
  

  rust unix
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
  

  culture
  

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• Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
  

  css web
  

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• UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah
  

  historical unix
  

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• Rust’s Block Pattern
  

  rust
  

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• Pedagogy Recommendations
  

  education
  

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• What do people love about Rust?
  

  rust
  

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• Building a Transparent Keyserver
  

  cryptography
  

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• 8-bit Boléro (the world’s most ambitious chiptune?)
  

  audio video art hardware retrocomputing
  

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• A love letter to Raycast
  

  mac
  

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• When Scope Lies: The Wildcard Pattern Drop Footgun in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The scariest boot loader code
  

  hardware netbsd openbsd
  

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• Backing up Spotify
  

  programming
  

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