The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Slurptop: A home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries
  

  art hardware
  

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• Balloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved
  

  c++
  

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• Vim Classic
  

  editors vim
  

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• POSIX wordexp(3) is dangerous
  

  c security
  

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• Partial Order Precedence
  

  zig
  

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• How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
  

  programming
  

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• Twelve years of distributed SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• An Incremental Approach to JIT Construction
  

  pdf compilers education
  

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• No Source Code? No Problem! What if you have to port a program, but all you have is a binary? (2003)
  

  games reversing
  

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• MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)
  

  systemd
  

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• This week's "node2shell" Brotli vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497) is exploitable in Python, other consumers of Brotli
  

  security web
  

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

• The Missing Piece in Rust Error Handling
  

  rust
  

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• Programming Isn’t Special
  

  art vibecoding
  

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• Bevy 0.20
  

  games release rust
  

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• 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027
  

  devops security
  

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• Unison Cloud is now open source
  

  release
  

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• A tale of four theorem provers, or: A (reasonably) opinionated comparison of Isabelle/HOL, Lean, HOL4, and Agda
  

  design plt
  

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• Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Beauty in DVD Menus
  

  art
  

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• Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs
  

  pdf formalmethods math reversing vibecoding
  

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• Python 3.15.0
  

  python release
  

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• Extending Guix
  

  nix
  

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• The Performance Cost of RwLock in Our Read-Heavy Workload
  

  performance rust
  

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

• Email Self Hosters - what are you using?
  

  ask email
  

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• Async Rust: Where does the scheduler live?
  

  rust
  

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• Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
  

  graphics haskell
  

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• Montray - a tray icon for systemd service health
  

  linux systemd
  

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• A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over
  

  vibecoding web
  

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• That Time I Worked With a Laptop Thief
  

  security
  

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• You don't need an effect system
  

  haskell
  

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• Brut, the Brutal Router for Unix Tools
  

  show unix
  

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• Bidirectional Type Slicing
  

  pdf plt
  

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• Extend Lua with Zig 1: Hello World
  

  lua zig
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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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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