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

• Why are we even doing all this?
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Linus Torvalds on AI-assisted kernel contributions
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Forgejo v17.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• On the technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC
  

  science
  

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• The road to iroh 1.0
  

  networking
  

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• Religious Studies In Software Engineering
  

  culture philosophy
  

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• The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
  

  cryptography
  

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• Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
  

  art
  

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• Epic's EAC2 v2 seems fairly easily bypassable
  

  linux security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.99.1
  

  release rust
  

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• Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from? (2009)
  

  historical windows
  

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• Gleam case exhaustiveness, as a fan
  

  compilers gleam
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cloudflare shutting down Deno is news, not just PR
  

  meta
  

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• No Man Is an Island
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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• oh, apparently it's not possible to portably check for string-to-float conversion errors in standard c
  

  c
  

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• Branches in branch-free code
  

  assembly c compilers rust zig
  

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• There's little that's "inevitable" about AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• "Robot" Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot
  

  philosophy
  

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• Spinlocks Considered Harmful (2020)
  

  performance
  

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• The Lightbulb Computer: Reimagining Spatial & Ambient Computing with Projectors
  

  design
  

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• There are many themes, but this one is yours
  

  a11y design vibecoding
  

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• Iframes that finally fit their content
  

  css web
  

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• The importance of communities around software
  

  culture
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging
  

  programming
  

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• Janet on x32: 32-bit Pointers, 64-bit Speed, 25% Less RAM
  

  linux performance
  

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• Last rites for Gentoo's Chromium package
  

  browsers linux practices
  

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• Software developers are not okay
  

  philosophy
  

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• Is COSMIC DE mogging KDE Plasma?
  

  design linux
  

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• Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
  

  person
  

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• C for Rust Programmers
  

  c rust
  

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• A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)
  

  programming
  

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• Release of Polars 2.0
  

  release
  

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• Explaining the Magelight XP glitch in Skyrim
  

  games reversing
  

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• Reasons to dislike AI coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
  

  browsers rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• There's no such thing as Just a Tool
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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• Gram Editor 3.3.0 Released
  

  editors release rust
  

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• Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
  

  security
  

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• Introducing ReactOS 0.4.16
  

  osdev release
  

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• But where does taste come from?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• California Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age Verification
  

  law
  

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• Rust Function Overloading - Call for Experimentation
  

  rust
  

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• Bug blindness
  

  practices
  

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• Transfer files over an ethernet patch cable
  

  networking
  

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• Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
  

  rust
  

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• Wrapping GTK4 in 800 lines of Clojure with Jolt
  

  clojure lisp vibecoding
  

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• Pointer Stability for ArrayLists
  

  zig
  

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

• Being kicked out of the tech industry
  

  person
  

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• Creepy crawlies
  

  devops linux
  

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• How I made Rustdoc 33% faster in one week
  

  performance rust
  

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• LLM usage in Debian neither endorsed nor prohibited
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• How cats.txt showed llms.txt evidence is GEO astrology
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV (2020)
  

  programming
  

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• Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
  

  ml security vibecoding
  

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• GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven
  

  programming
  

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• A Perfect SimCity
  

  games retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Debian and the sirens
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Zero-Cost 'Tagless Final' in Rust with GADT-style Enums
  

  rust
  

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• I naively tried vibe-coding a memory tool for agents and stared into the abyss of unsolved problems in philosophy
  

  philosophy practices vibecoding
  

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