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

• The scourge of x86 emulation
  

  hardware
  

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• There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
  

  vibecoding
  

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• CSS-Tricks could be a co-op
  

  css culture
  

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• I Built Non-Autoregressive Decision Models a Year Ago. Then a Frontier Lab Called It a "Breakthrough"
  

  ai
  

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• AI Is an Elite Crime Spree
  

  law
  

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• Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
  

  performance rust
  

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• Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)
  

  programming
  

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• Write while learning
  

  practices
  

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• “The Secret Life of Circuits” is here
  

  hardware
  

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• What happens to TLDs when their country stops existing? (2022)
  

  web
  

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• FAQ: Why isn’t mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa?
  

  plt
  

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• Reviving the language that brought us the Jak & Daxter Series
  

  games lisp
  

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

• A/I Shuts Down
  

  finance privacy
  

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• Some things Veloren does differently
  

  games graphics rust
  

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• Small Programming Tricks
  

  programming
  

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• Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
  

  rust
  

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• The end of verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru
  

  web
  

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• Forgery of C2PA on a Pixel 10
  

  cryptography security
  

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• JDK 27 has been released
  

  java release
  

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• Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• How to get a DOI for your blog posts
  

  web
  

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• PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook
  

  video art design
  

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• Introducing GNOME 51
  

  linux release
  

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• Why i'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• "Do You Still Read the Code?"
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Coreutils - rejected feature requests
  

  programming unix
  

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• GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview
  

  openbsd
  

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• CSS-Tricks in Limbo
  

  css web
  

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• A New Equal-Area Map for Interactive Computer Use (natively zooms to Mercator)
  

  math web
  

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• Converting a $20 4G wireless hotspot into a texting device
  

  hardware
  

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• GDScript: The Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts
  

  games programming
  

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• A Letter from a Machine Learning Engineer
  

  ai
  

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• Why Am I Still Programming
  

  video vibecoding
  

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• A Nix store is three functions
  

  nix
  

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• We are all Product Engineers now
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• There are only twelve 4x4 sudokus - and a cool trick for finding minimal subsets
  

  compsci math python
  

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

• Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
  

  programming
  

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• The contagion of fear
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
  

  assembly historical
  

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• The case against JPEG XL
  

  compsci
  

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• Mergiraf: A syntax-aware git merge driver for a growing collection of programming languages and file formats
  

  programming vcs
  

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• Writing a Guix service from scratch, as a beginner
  

  nix
  

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• What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
  

  ask practices
  

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• Purely Functional Operating Systems
  

  osdev programming
  

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• How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?
  

  c unix
  

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• I wish you the best in the Offline
  

  culture
  

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• Golang developers should try Odin
  

  programming
  

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• Can a regex match valid card numbers?
  

  compsci
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I changed my license to EUPL
  

  law
  

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• Jellyfin 12.0
  

  release
  

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• Switching Password Managers in 2026
  

  practices security
  

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• The state of European cloud providers in 2026
  

  scaling
  

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• My Nix Config Is Intimate
  

  nix
  

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• Extreme Server Side Rendering
  

  browsers web
  

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• I’ve factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority…from the 90s
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• How to get a free .arpa domain
  

  networking
  

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• Emacs Bedrock 2.0 Released
  

  emacs
  

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• Bitap: my favorite string matching algorithm
  

  compsci
  

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• This Month in Ladybird - August 2026
  

  browsers
  

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• Hardening Container Images
  

  devops
  

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