The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Just Fucking Use Go
  

  go
  

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• Ploopy Bean - external trackpoint
  

  hardware
  

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• Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?
  

  historical programming
  

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• Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo
  

  security
  

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• Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue
  

  databases performance
  

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• Stop MITM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider
  

  cryptography devops security
  

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• Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story
  

  ruby
  

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• blaise: A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8
  

  compilers vibecoding
  

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• Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM
  

  networking web
  

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• Mojo v1.0.0b1
  

  ai plt release
  

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• building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
  

  assembly web
  

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• cuda-oxide: cuda-oxide is an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Copy Fail — 732 Bytes to Root
  

  linux security
  

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• A text editor as a user interface
  

  editors
  

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• Mozilla's position on the Prompt API
  

  web
  

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• Stable specialization in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• GCC 16 Release Series: Changes, New Features, and Fixes
  

  compilers release
  

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• You can beat the binary search
  

  performance
  

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• Blessed Syntax and Ergonomics
  

  plt programming
  

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• Early Impressions of Chrome from a Firefox User
  

  browsers
  

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• March in Servo: keyboard navigation, better debugging, FreeBSD support, and more
  

  browsers
  

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• CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design
  

  css
  

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• Breaking ten years of C API compatibility in Futhark
  

  compilers plt
  

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• The end of responsive images
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Niri v26.04
  

  linux release rust
  

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• From Milliseconds to 26 Nanoseconds: How a $20 eBay SFP Module Beat My Entire NTP Setup
  

  hardware
  

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• Wasm is not quite a stack machine
  

  plt wasm
  

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• Email is crazy
  

  email networking security
  

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• HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle
  

  freebsd vcs
  

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• "Why not just use Lean?"
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (Bill Joy, 2000)
  

  philosophy
  

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• (Cryptographic) Registries Considered Harmful (2020)
  

  cryptography
  

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• httpxyz one month in
  

  python
  

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• The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
  

  games performance programming
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• HTML written only using the C preprocessor
  

  c
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up
  

  networking security vibecoding
  

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• A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management
  

  c c++ programming satire
  

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• Lua can be a really cool HTML templating engine
  

  lua web
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.0
  

  linux release
  

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• Dillo release 3.3.0
  

  browsers release
  

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• It's OK To Use Floating Point for Money
  

  satire
  

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• It's OK to use coding assistance tools to revive the projects you never were going to finish
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Smolwebifying my site
  

  web
  

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• The fastest Linux timestamps
  

  linux performance
  

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• My Homemade PBX
  

  hardware
  

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• Swissing a table
  

  go
  

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• I have officially retired from Emacs
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• Do I belong in tech anymore?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The people do not yearn for automation
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Nintendo Switch Switch (2019)
  

  hardware linux
  

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• Multiple things can be true at the same time
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Your CPU Has More Registers Than You'd Think
  

  hardware
  

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• Introducing mine, a Coalton and Common Lisp IDE
  

  editors lisp
  

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• Pure Borrow: Linear Haskell Meets Rust-Style Borrowing
  

  haskell plt rust
  

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• Avoid Shipping Your Org Chart
  

  practices
  

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• Gmail: Bringing easy end-to-end encryption to all businesses
  

  cryptography email
  

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• Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden
  

  linux
  

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• Comparing compression tools
  

  performance
  

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• Qt No Contextless Connect
  

  c++
  

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