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

• Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
  

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• The contagion of fear
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
  

  assembly historical
  

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• The case against JPEG XL
  

  compsci
  

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• Mergiraf: A syntax-aware git merge driver for a growing collection of programming languages and file formats
  

  programming vcs
  

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• Writing a Guix service from scratch, as a beginner
  

  nix
  

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• What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Purely Functional Operating Systems
  

  osdev programming
  

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• How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?
  

  c unix
  

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• I wish you the best in the Offline
  

  culture
  

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• Golang developers should try Odin
  

  programming
  

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• Can a regex match valid card numbers?
  

  compsci
  

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

• Power grab
  

  culture linux
  

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• Feeling sad about AI
  

  programming
  

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• Soft-deprecating re.match()
  

  python
  

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• Models Don't Go Rogue
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• It's not the YAML spec's fault, but
  

  historical
  

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• My HTML Boilerplate
  

  web
  

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• How CHERIoT Provides Strong and Usable Isolation Without an MMU
  

  hardware osdev security
  

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• An untrusted site can freeze a Mac using WebGPU
  

  browsers security
  

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• A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• evergarden
  

  design
  

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• Bastion of the Turbofish
  

  rust satire testing
  

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• Fastly Speedtest Test
  

  networking wasm
  

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

• How to build a f**king printer
  

  c++ hardware networking vibecoding
  

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• Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in rust
  

  hardware reversing rust
  

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• I Don’t Want to Interact With Stochastic Parrots
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• A decade of rustls
  

  networking rust
  

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• software for humans
  

  culture
  

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• Solaris Turnstiles
  

  osdev
  

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• Rust: When Empty Isn't Bottom
  

  plt rust
  

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• CERN's migration path from CentOS Linux to Debian
  

  linux
  

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• The State of Allocators in 2026 - 6 Months Later
  

  rust
  

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• Finite-time blowup with smooth forcing for 3D incompressible Euler, Boussinesq, and IPM
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
  

  historical web
  

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• The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• There's no such thing as Just a Tool
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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• Gram Editor 3.3.0 Released
  

  editors release rust
  

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• Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
  

  security
  

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• Introducing ReactOS 0.4.16
  

  osdev release
  

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• But where does taste come from?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• California Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age Verification
  

  law
  

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• Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation
  

  rust
  

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• Bug blindness
  

  practices
  

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• Transfer files over an ethernet patch cable
  

  networking
  

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• Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
  

  rust
  

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• Wrapping GTK4 in 800 lines of Clojure with Jolt
  

  clojure lisp vibecoding
  

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• Pointer Stability for ArrayLists
  

  zig
  

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

• The Root of The Root of All Evil
  

  video historical programming retrocomputing
  

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• mold: A Massively Parallel Linker
  

  pdf compilers performance
  

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• Haiku R1/beta6 released
  

  osdev release
  

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• Merchants of Insecurity
  

  osdev security
  

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• Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-bit Embedded Systems
  

  go linux
  

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• Solving the 1+N query problem
  

  databases
  

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• Memory ordering in CPUs
  

  hardware
  

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• Porffor goes alpha August 11th
  

  compilers javascript
  

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• Using TypeScript to Obtain One of the Rarest License Plates (2025)
  

  programming
  

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• Fuzzing The Gleam Compiler
  

  gleam testing
  

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• Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
  

  openbsd unix
  

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• VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
  

  security vibecoding
  

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