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

• To my students
  

  education vibecoding
  

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• Winners of the 2025 International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC 29)
  

  c
  

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• How LLMs Actually Work
  

  ai
  

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• The User Doesn't Care - But you should
  

  practices
  

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• Ergonomic overrides for Nixpkgs
  

  nix plt
  

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• Moving beyond fork() + exec()
  

  unix
  

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• The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix derivations in Nix
  

  nix
  

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• ntsc-rs - an accurate VHS video effect
  

  graphics programming
  

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• It doesn’t always have to be Linux
  

  video freebsd
  

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• mold-desktop
  

  lisp osdev
  

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• Magecart skimmer turns Stripe into a malware command server
  

  security
  

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• A Little Explanation of Little's Law
  

  performance practices
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My Software North Star
  

  philosophy
  

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• The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years, and the Receipts Are Public
  

  c++
  

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• Mean Hand
  

  design visualization
  

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• A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt
  

  cryptography security web
  

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• Safe Made Easy Pt.1: Single Ownership is (Not) Optional
  

  plt
  

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• Extension or Imitation? Can you tell the valid Haskell Language Extensions, from the Impostors?
  

  haskell
  

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• Parsing XML EXIF from .avif files (plus a rant)
  

  python web
  

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• Reviewing code requires reading
  

  culture
  

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• mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era
  

  c performance
  

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• jujutsu v0.42.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• RP2040 DMA is Turing Complete (2023)
  

  compsci performance
  

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• Revealing the frontier with stacks and queues
  

  performance rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• burntsushi discusses personal medical diagnosis
  

  person
  

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• rsync and outrage
  

  vibecoding
  

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• .furry - A Top-Level Domain for furries
  

  web
  

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• Edsger – a handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2
  

  show art clojure
  

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• Full Disclosure: 1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug
  

  security vscode web
  

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• revo, the programming language
  

  programming zig
  

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• Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language
  

  elixir plt
  

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• Oils - Reviewing Our NLnet Grants After 4 Years
  

  programming unix
  

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• Gleam v1.17 - Single file Gleam BEAM programs with escript
  

  gleam release
  

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• Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
  

  security
  

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• Preparing for KDE Plasma’s Last X11-Supported Release
  

  linux
  

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• PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps)
  

  vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Pokemon Gen2 compression myth
  

  games historical performance
  

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• GitHub Source Code Breach - TeamPCP Claims Access to Internal Source Code
  

  security
  

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• pgBackRest will continue
  

  databases
  

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• Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years
  

  programming ruby
  

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• I am not a Software Engineer
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly (2024)
  

  api
  

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• Saying goodbye to asm.js
  

  browsers javascript
  

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• Everything in C is undefined behavior
  

  c
  

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• Erasing Existentials
  

  rust
  

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• Software's Centaur Era
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Super Tiny Compiler, but in Ada
  

  plt programming
  

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• Golfing Zig ELF Binaries (2025)
  

  programming unix zig
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations
  

  law
  

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• Type out the code
  

  programming
  

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• OpenBSD 7.9 released
  

  openbsd release
  

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• Introducing Casuarina Linux: A glibc-Based Chimera Linux Derivative
  

  linux
  

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• Programming as Theory Building (1985)
  

  pdf practices programming
  

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• CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on Github
  

  security
  

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• My domain got abused on Github Pages
  

  security
  

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• Better generated branch names with jj
  

  vcs
  

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• The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention
  

  plt
  

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• The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
  

  practices
  

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• How we used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso
  

  databases formalmethods
  

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• What would you want from a forge?
  

  ask design vcs
  

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