The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
  

  security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.98.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Better Batteries
  

  plt programming
  

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• Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
  

  historical osdev retrocomputing
  

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• Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE
  

  linux osdev
  

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• Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
  

  rust
  

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• Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
  

  emacs
  

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• Opus is a minimal, statically-scoped Lisp dialect based on the semantics of f-expressions (the Kernel language)
  

  haskell lisp
  

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• Felony Bench: Be AI, Do Crime
  

  ai
  

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• Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk ̶m̶y̶ ̶e̶x̶ a friend, cause I can
  

  reversing
  

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• Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Toggles Considered Harmful
  

  design
  

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• Firefox Containers Preview
  

  browsers
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed
  

  nix
  

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• I got an email about resistance
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• a pure css implementation of some sunlight streaming in through the window
  

  css design web
  

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• Django is moving to an annual release cycle
  

  python release web
  

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• GitHub Actions needs OIDC audience constraints
  

  security
  

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• How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets
  

  privacy security
  

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• IBM i (OS/400) The Database Operating System
  

  osdev
  

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• an ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed
  

  c
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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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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