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 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A faster bump allocator for rust
  

  performance rust
  

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• Changing How We Develop Ladybird
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• Code is Cheap(er)
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake
  

  devops web
  

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• Did Claude Increase Bugs in rsync?
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Stop Using Conventional Commits
  

  practices
  

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• Branchless Quicksort
  

  c c++
  

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• How do you sieve/filter/manage your internet mail?
  

  ask practices
  

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• The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS Broadcasts a Numbers Station
  

  security
  

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• Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction
  

  logiclangs
  

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• When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login
  

  unix
  

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• The EU tech sovereignty plan
  

  culture
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Vim Classic 8.3 released
  

  editors release vim
  

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• The Newest Instagram "Exploit" is the Goofiest I've Seen
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Why Janet? (2023)
  

  lisp
  

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• Quality in the Age of Slop
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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• Hating AI is good, actually
  

  vibecoding
  

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• strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance
  

  linux ml
  

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• Arm desktop: so many cores, not enough speed
  

  hardware
  

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• iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust
  

  rust
  

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• kelvin versioning
  

  practices
  

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• Exploring the Japanese XD FirstClass Network BBS
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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• Memory safety is a matter of life and death
  

  rust
  

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• rustc_codegen_jvm: Rust compiler backend to emit JVM bytecode
  

  java rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• QBE - Compiler Backend: Version 1.3
  

  compilers release
  

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• Announcing Zstandard in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• It's Not Just X. It's Y
  

  ai vibecoding
  

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• You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough
  

  systemd
  

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• github and the crime against software
  

  devops distributed
  

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• Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
  

  graphics math
  

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• The S in interoperability
  

  practices security
  

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• securix: NixOS-based secure operating system. Provides a hardened environment with strong isolation, reproducibility, and policy-driven configurations
  

  nix security
  

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• Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/http/httptrace
  

  debugging go
  

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• Arch Linux: Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`
  

  linux
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• The postmodern build system
  

  nix
  

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

• I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
  

  person
  

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• SQLite Does Not Accept Agentic Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• One year of Roto, the compiled scripting language for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
  

  performance programming
  

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• Emacs bra size calculator
  

  emacs
  

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• You probably don't need Yocto, and that's fine
  

  linux
  

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• tail CI logs over SSH
  

  vcs web
  

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• jjc: Non-interactive hunk-level operations for Jujutsu
  

  rust vcs
  

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• How do you version public web APIs?
  

  ask api
  

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• Leaving performance on the table
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Package managers that package package managers
  

  compsci linux practices
  

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• Patching my guitar amp's firmware
  

  hardware reversing
  

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