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 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm done using AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
  

  databases
  

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• Guide to (not) fucking up QR codes
  

  design
  

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• I hate packaging my software for Linux
  

  linux
  

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• The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of
  

  performance
  

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• Compression is prediction
  

  programming
  

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• Analyzing My Lobsters Submissions
  

  visualization
  

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• Introducing Automatic Key Verification
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem
  

  devops security
  

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• Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
  

  compilers games
  

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• Making [etched] holograms with a pen plotter
  

  show art graphics math
  

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• fearless_simd v0.7: 64-bit integers, improved generics, SSE2, and upcoming v1.0
  

  release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Toggles Considered Harmful
  

  design
  

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• Firefox Containers Preview
  

  browsers
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed
  

  nix
  

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• I got an email about resistance
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• a pure css implementation of some sunlight streaming in through the window
  

  css design web
  

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• Django is moving to an annual release cycle
  

  python release web
  

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• GitHub Actions needs OIDC audience constraints
  

  security
  

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• How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets
  

  privacy security
  

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• IBM i (OS/400) The Database Operating System
  

  osdev
  

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• an ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed
  

  c
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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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 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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