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

• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
  

  nix
  

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• They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore
  

  editors rant
  

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• some software talks i like
  

  programming
  

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• Assembly Hall of Shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance
  

  hardware
  

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• PS3 emulation is fast on ARM now
  

  video assembly performance
  

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• Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven
  

  practices python science
  

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• From constraint models to playable puzzle games
  

  programming
  

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• I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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• Amiga August 2026 Update
  

  historical osdev
  

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• ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’
  

  video historical
  

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• AI & The University
  

  video education vibecoding
  

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• "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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

• I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park
  

  satire
  

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• A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
  

  unix
  

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• Super Mario Derivations
  

  games nix retrocomputing
  

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• Taste Is All That's Left
  

  vibecoding
  

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• the web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
  

  web
  

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• Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD
  

  netbsd web
  

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• Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out
  

  practices
  

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• How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
  

  c games graphics retrocomputing
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Finally adding recursive functions to Futhark
  

  plt
  

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• cl-forth: Forth 2012 Standard in CL
  

  concatenative lisp
  

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• Some ways to navigate through 'git blame' over time in GNU Emacs
  

  emacs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
  

  privacy security
  

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• i wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• python string literals are kinda funny
  

  python
  

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• jujutsu 0.44.0
  

  release vcs
  

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• A Vision for Cargo
  

  rust
  

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• GNU Hurd news 2026-q2
  

  osdev
  

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• Symbolics OpenGenera to go free for non-commercial use
  

  lisp osdev
  

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• Zig's Io.Threaded is Neat
  

  zig
  

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• I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write
  

  culture philosophy practices
  

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• C++26: #embed
  

  c++
  

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• The following is a valid DOS COM executable
  

  art programming
  

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• Painting with Gaussians
  

  graphics programming vibecoding
  

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

• Twenty Years of Pandoc
  

  haskell historical
  

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• Soppo - Go, with the features it's missing
  

  go
  

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• The Lua community needs to learn to move on
  

  lua
  

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• Security is Hard, Y’all
  

  security
  

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• Reliability Lessons From SQLite
  

  video practices
  

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• The Future of GNOME Boxes
  

  virtualization
  

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• Going Backward
  

  go
  

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• Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly
  

  rust
  

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• BorrowSanitizer
  

  rust
  

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• Wireguard For Plan 9
  

  osdev release
  

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• FFmpeg 9.0
  

  graphics release
  

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• SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
  

  security
  

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

• help wanted
  

  rant satire vibecoding
  

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• Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation)
  

  culture
  

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• Don't be a meat proxy
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Kill the Cookie Banner
  

  law privacy
  

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• 9front "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" Released
  

  art release
  

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• Faster floating point math with Rust’s new API
  

  performance rust
  

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• Your JSON Is Lying to You
  

  javascript
  

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• I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence
  

  performance vibecoding
  

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• Getting Started with Google Wave (2010)
  

  video design
  

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• Rust Project Goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
  

  rust
  

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• How fast is C++26’s std::hive?
  

  c++
  

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• Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy (2000)
  

  practices
  

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