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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations
  

  law
  

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• Type out the code
  

  programming
  

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• OpenBSD 7.9 released
  

  openbsd release
  

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• Introducing Casuarina Linux: A glibc-Based Chimera Linux Derivative
  

  linux
  

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• Programming as Theory Building (1985)
  

  pdf practices programming
  

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• CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github
  

  security
  

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• My domain got abused on Github Pages
  

  security
  

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• Better generated branch names with jj
  

  vcs
  

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• The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention
  

  plt
  

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• The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
  

  practices
  

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• How we used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso
  

  databases formalmethods
  

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• What would you want from a forge?
  

  ask design vcs
  

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

• Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Native all the way, until you need text
  

  mac swift
  

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• The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means
  

  cryptography security
  

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• New design for the FreeBSD website
  

  design freebsd
  

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• Go European — Discover European products and services
  

  culture privacy
  

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• Coding on Paper
  

  hardware
  

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• Recent Kernel exploits, attack surface reduction, example IPSEC
  

  linux networking security
  

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• Subscription Bombing: Email under Attack
  

  email
  

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• Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Don't answer the first question
  

  practices
  

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• Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• How to Write to SSDs
  

  pdf databases
  

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