The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
  

  ios
  

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• Rethinking Database Programming
  

  databases elm plt
  

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• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
  

  ai art
  

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• How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
  

  art
  

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• Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
  

  games historical reversing
  

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• Mojo is now open source
  

  plt
  

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• What software do you use daily in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• CSS: the bomb inside your inbox
  

  security
  

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• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
  

  hardware
  

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

• Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
  

  browsers
  

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• ActivityPub Won by Being Boring
  

  distributed web
  

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• Why I remain a skeptic
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Everything is about to “go dark”
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine
  

  games
  

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• RVA23 vs ARMv9 a Small Experiment
  

  assembly
  

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• Comments in the code vs PR description
  

  practices vcs
  

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• There Is Still No Silver Bullet
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• We implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in the Linux Kernel, Musl Libc, and BGP
  

  linux networking vibecoding
  

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• How Is Compression Prediction?
  

  math
  

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• Computing graph dominators
  

  compsci
  

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• Serokell’s Work on GHC: Dependent Types, Part 5
  

  haskell
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess"
  

  practices
  

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• OxiSH: SSH server written in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Curl Performance
  

  performance
  

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• A preview of Roc 0.1.0
  

  video compsci
  

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• The Art of CHIP-8
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024)
  

  video databases
  

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• A long division story
  

  compsci math
  

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• RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
  

  assembly compilers rant
  

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• SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public git repositories
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
  

  design email
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Write for people
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
  

  python
  

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• EuroZig
  

  zig
  

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• GitHub Stacks in Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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• I want extern "fil-c"
  

  c rust
  

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• Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
  

  databases
  

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• On AI Coding and Its Discontents
  

  practices testing vibecoding
  

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• Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
  

  graphics web
  

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• Unlocking _everything_ on the CPU with DRAM scrambling
  

  security
  

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• A critical review of Xilem in 2026
  

  rust
  

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• My Anti AI computer
  

  vibecoding
  

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• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• What’s new in Flutter 3.47
  

  release
  

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

• Chicken Scheme 6.0 released
  

  lisp release
  

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• GNOME Shell Design Dreams
  

  design
  

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• Reviewing code is a skill
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Bevy's Sixth Birthday
  

  games rust
  

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• Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix
  

  historical unix
  

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• We're not done with point clouds
  

  performance rust
  

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• No, local models will not win
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Breaking up (lines) is hard to do
  

  python
  

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• The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves
  

  math visualization
  

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• Briar is in maintenance mode
  

  mobile networking
  

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• Squeak 6.1
  

  release
  

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• Restricting trait implementability and field mutability
  

  rust
  

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