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

• Fine, I’ll build my own text editor
  

  editors web
  

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• Janet 1.42.0
  

  lisp release
  

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• "iT woRKs BeTter in THe aPp!!"
  

  mobile rant
  

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• Is Minifying CSS Necessary? (2023)
  

  css web
  

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• Breaking down Amazon’s mega dropdown (2013)
  

  design practices web
  

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• Cancelation Terminology
  

  programming
  

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• Bootstrappable builds: how and why
  

  lisp nix
  

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• RangeFrom, Part 2..: What I think is wrong about the design
  

  rust
  

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• Zuzai, a new word, indicates the absence of AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• This Month in KDE Linux: August 2026
  

  linux
  

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• A bicycle for the mind
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Kale: A Transformation-Safe Spreadsheet System
  

  pdf compsci design
  

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

• “Double Threat” to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcontrol.eu
  

  privacy
  

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• Ante: New Way to Blend Borrow Checking and Reference Counting
  

  compsci plt
  

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• When Impressive Performance Gains Do Not Matter
  

  performance
  

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• Towards Understandable Software
  

  a11y
  

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• Tech Morality is Hard
  

  culture
  

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• HyperCard on the Macintosh
  

  historical mac
  

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• Loko Scheme 0.13.0
  

  lisp release
  

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• Introducing Test That
  

  rust testing
  

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• WATaBoy: JIT-ing Game Boy Instructions to Wasm Beats a Native Interpreter
  

  wasm
  

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• Canvas patch: we need testers
  

  emacs windows
  

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• Optimizing LLVM's bump allocator
  

  compilers
  

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• A Core Calculus for Documents (2024)
  

  pdf plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects
  

  plt
  

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• The feature in OxCaml that more languages should steal
  

  ml
  

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• Guards! Guards
  

  elixir
  

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• How VictoriaLogs Stores Your Logs in a Columnar Layout
  

  databases
  

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• Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
  

  openbsd retrocomputing
  

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• It's dead, Jim! (UEFI CA expiry)
  

  linux security
  

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• Shard your locks: benchmarking 6 Go cache designs
  

  go performance
  

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• Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet oomwoo
  

  hardware vibecoding
  

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• The Old Computer Challenge
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Installing SerenityOS on My Old ThinkPad T60
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• What does it mean to be a mathematician when AI does the math?
  

  ai math
  

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• A Typed, Algebraic Approach to Parsing (2019)
  

  pdf plt
  

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

• Life is too short for a slow terminal
  

  linux performance
  

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• An announcement from the Steering Council regarding the JIT project
  

  python
  

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• The smallest C++ binary
  

  linux
  

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• PolyForm Licenses
  

  law
  

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• The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
  

  privacy security
  

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• Win16 Memory Management
  

  historical programming windows
  

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• If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
  

  pdf ai
  

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• Total Reciprocity Public License
  

  law
  

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• The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
  

  clojure databases
  

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• Using Fedora Silverblue for Compositor Development
  

  linux
  

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• Let's stop using flags as down-vote
  

  meta culture
  

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• Getting silly with C, part &((int*)-8)[3]
  

  c satire
  

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