The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
  

  nix
  

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• They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore
  

  editors rant
  

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• some software talks i like
  

  programming
  

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• Assembly Hall of Shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance
  

  hardware
  

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• PS3 emulation is fast on ARM now
  

  video assembly performance
  

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• Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven
  

  practices python science
  

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• From constraint models to playable puzzle games
  

  programming
  

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• I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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• Amiga August 2026 Update
  

  historical osdev
  

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• ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’
  

  video historical
  

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• AI & The University
  

  video education vibecoding
  

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• "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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

• tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
  

  privacy security
  

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• i wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• python string literals are kinda funny
  

  python
  

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• jujutsu 0.44.0
  

  release vcs
  

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• A Vision for Cargo
  

  rust
  

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• GNU Hurd news 2026-q2
  

  osdev
  

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• Symbolics OpenGenera to go free for non-commercial use
  

  lisp osdev
  

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• Zig's Io.Threaded is Neat
  

  zig
  

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• I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write
  

  culture philosophy practices
  

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• C++26: #embed
  

  c++
  

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• The following is a valid DOS COM executable
  

  art programming
  

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• Painting with Gaussians
  

  graphics programming vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Twenty Years of Pandoc
  

  haskell historical
  

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• Soppo - Go, with the features it's missing
  

  go
  

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• The Lua community needs to learn to move on
  

  lua
  

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• Security is Hard, Y’all
  

  security
  

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• Reliability Lessons From SQLite
  

  video practices
  

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• The Future of GNOME Boxes
  

  virtualization
  

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• Going Backward
  

  go
  

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• Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly
  

  rust
  

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• BorrowSanitizer
  

  rust
  

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• Wireguard For Plan 9
  

  osdev release
  

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• FFmpeg 9.0
  

  graphics release
  

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• SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
  

  security
  

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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 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Memory Safety Absolutists
  

  c rust zig
  

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• Maybe we should revisit microkernels
  

  osdev
  

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• How I Find Problems to Solve as a Staff Engineer
  

  practices
  

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• General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
  

  culture linux vibecoding
  

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• Emacs Writing Machine
  

  emacs linux
  

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• Teaching Kids Forth
  

  concatenative education
  

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• How to self-host servers in your living room on static IPs
  

  networking
  

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• Himalaya v2.0.0: CLI to manage emails
  

  email release rust vibecoding
  

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• Verse: A New Scripting Language
  

  video logiclangs plt
  

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• I'm running the ICFP programming contest
  

  event programming
  

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• Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY Actually Scales
  

  databases
  

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• Delightful integration tests in Rust
  

  rust
  

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