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

• Nitter, XCancel Shutdown Over Cease-And-Desist
  

  culture privacy web
  

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• Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer
  

  satire
  

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• OpenOffice does not print on Tuesdays (2009)
  

  linux
  

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• EasyEffects should be part of every Linux distribution to improve laptop speaker sound quality
  

  linux
  

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• UNIX V4 workshop at Low Resource Computing
  

  unix
  

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• htmx 4.0.0 has been released
  

  release vibecoding web
  

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• Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak
  

  linux
  

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• Yap: a particular kind of slop
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• A Million Kakapos
  

  culture finance vibecoding
  

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• Ardour 9.8 released
  

  release
  

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• Quest for eternal dock on Wayland - lambdock (C + GTK4 + Lisp GNU Guile Scheme)
  

  c lisp
  

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• How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
  

  distributed performance
  

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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 August 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You should never be angry at work
  

  practices
  

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• The cool things of Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
  

  distributed
  

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• Music theory for programmers
  

  art math
  

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• Turning My CASIO F-91W Into a Contactless Payment Device
  

  hardware
  

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• Compile-Time Improvements in LLVM 23
  

  compilers
  

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• Small, native web tricks worth remembering
  

  web
  

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• NetBSD and my life (2005)
  

  netbsd
  

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• rust-glancer: An alternative LSP for Rust with focus on low memory usage
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• Unfortunately you sometimes need to do the thing
  

  philosophy programming rust
  

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• Vibe coding personal apps in mid-2026
  

  vibecoding
  

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• There continue to be reasons for software to be slow
  

  performance vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong
  

  c programming
  

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• Every Fucking Website
  

  satire vibecoding web
  

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• A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"
  

  a11y culture hardware
  

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• Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage
  

  rust
  

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• A Tour of Magit's Status Interface
  

  emacs vcs
  

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• Recap: Software Should Work 2026
  

  event programming
  

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• Zig Day Seattle, WA #3
  

  event zig
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode
  

  nix
  

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• What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI
  

  python
  

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• A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
  

  assembly c++ math performance
  

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• How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
  

  games networking programming
  

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• Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends
  

  vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess"
  

  practices
  

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• OxiSH: SSH server written in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Curl Performance
  

  performance
  

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• A preview of Roc 0.1.0
  

  video compsci
  

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• The Art of CHIP-8
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024)
  

  video databases
  

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• A long division story
  

  compsci math
  

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• RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
  

  assembly compilers rant
  

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• SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public git repositories
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
  

  design email
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Write for people
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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