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

• The social contract of writing
  

  philosophy
  

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• The Eternal Sloptember
  

  culture programming vibecoding
  

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• JS Crossword - a crossword where the clue = eval(answer)
  

  javascript web
  

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• Flatpak will depend on systemd
  

  linux systemd
  

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• Using AI to write better code more slowly
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Switching to Colemak
  

  a11y
  

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• Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas
  

  ai philosophy
  

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• Scoped Error in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
  

  c compilers
  

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• The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine
  

  historical practices
  

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• Nix's Substituter List Is Not a Routing Table
  

  nix
  

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• No Linux support on free version of Vivado 2026.1
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
  

  web
  

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• Chromium publishes fixed exploit 4 years later, turns out it's actually unfixed
  

  browsers security
  

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• Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist?
  

  c historical
  

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• Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Flipper One — we need your help
  

  hardware
  

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• An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• The Mislabeled Bricks of Utopia
  

  philosophy
  

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• [RFC] LLVM Foundation statement in favor of open access to standards documents
  

  c c++ compilers
  

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• Internships for early university / no former employment
  

  ask job
  

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• XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None
  

  security
  

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• Notes on I2C
  

  hardware
  

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• the may 2026 fedi software vulnerability
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
  

  meta philosophy
  

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• linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
  

  linux security
  

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• In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
  

  privacy security
  

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• Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
  

  web
  

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• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  

  culture practices
  

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• How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
  

  privacy
  

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• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
  

  css
  

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• Volkswagen- detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2015)
  

  javascript satire testing
  

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• PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs
  

  databases
  

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• SQL: Incorrect by Construction
  

  databases
  

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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 March 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager
  

  graphics
  

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• tree-style invite systems reduce AI slop
  

  culture
  

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• Gothub is live
  

  openbsd vcs
  

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• Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age
  

  law linux vibecoding
  

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• Changes to OpenTTD distribution on Steam
  

  games
  

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• Sunsetting Jazzband
  

  python
  

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• Humanities in the Machine
  

  historical philosophy
  

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• Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs
  

  distributed
  

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• Summary - Rust Project Perspectives on AI
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• One hundred curl graphs
  

  programming
  

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• A Preview of Coalton 0.2
  

  haskell lisp
  

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• Why Mathematica does not simplify Sinh[ArcCosh[x]]
  

  math
  

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