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

• Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control
  

  law
  

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• Jepsen: MariaDB Galera Cluster 12.1.2
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The Gemini Protocol in 2026
  

  web
  

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• typenix: Full typing for Nix based on TypeScript
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• A sufficiently detailed spec is code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• "LinkedIn Speak" was added to Kagi Translate
  

  satire web
  

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• yes, all longest regex matches in linear time is possible
  

  compsci rust
  

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• When perfection is table stakes
  

  practices
  

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• The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved
  

  networking
  

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• Python 3.15’s JIT is now back on track
  

  performance plt python
  

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• Hacking the Xbox One
  

  video hardware security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Try not to get scammed while looking for work
  

  security
  

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• rack-mount hydroponics
  

  hardware
  

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• Why I Love FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Gleam v1.15.0 released
  

  gleam
  

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• Reviewing large changes with Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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• LLM time
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• AI is making CEOs delusional
  

  video rant vibecoding
  

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• Introducing pgtui, a Postgres TUI client
  

  databases rust
  

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• A Linux distribution designed to eliminate single points of failure
  

  linux privacy security
  

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• Good Haskell Libraries
  

  haskell
  

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• How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?
  

  finance law
  

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• A most elegant TCP hole punching algorithm
  

  networking
  

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

• Ghostty 1.3.0
  

  release
  

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• Production query plans without production data
  

  databases performance
  

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• Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Returning To Rails in 2026
  

  programming ruby web
  

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• z80-sans: OpenType font that disassembles Z80 instructions
  

  assembly
  

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• GNU and the AI reimplementations
  

  law vibecoding
  

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• WebPKI and You
  

  security
  

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• Why octal notation should be used for UTF-8 (and Unicode) (2016)
  

  programming
  

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• Blocking HTTP1.1
  

  networking
  

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• We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Video Conferencing with Postgres
  

  databases
  

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• Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
  

  hardware mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
  

  hardware
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.94.0
  

  release rust
  

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• A new chapter for the Nix language, courtesy of WebAssembly
  

  nix wasm
  

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• EUPL: European Union Public License
  

  law
  

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• Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like
  

  browsers design
  

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• New major release of devenv
  

  nix release
  

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• A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• telemetry helps. you still get to turn it off
  

  privacy
  

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• OpenWrt 25.12.0 Released
  

  linux networking release
  

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• Hardening Firefox with Anthropic’s Red Team
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• XKCD dependency in p5.js
  

  graphics
  

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• Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State
  

  plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on March 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Enshittificator
  

  video culture
  

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• The 64-bit Hurd has landed in Guix
  

  nix
  

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• Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts
  

  mac
  

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• You can use newline characters in URLs
  

  web
  

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• What even are Breeze, QtQuick, QtWidget, Union..?
  

  linux
  

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• fast-servers: an interesting pattern
  

  c unix
  

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• AWS Middle East Central Zone (UAE) down, apparently struck in war
  

  devops networking
  

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• Cash issuing terminals
  

  historical
  

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• The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers
  

  historical
  

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• Blogatto - A Gleam framework for building static blogs
  

  gleam
  

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• The real cost of random I/O
  

  databases performance
  

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• epoll's handle-centric design is more composable than kqueue's filter-centric design (2021)
  

  freebsd linux programming
  

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