The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Native all the way, until you need text
  

  mac swift
  

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• The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means
  

  cryptography security
  

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• New design for the FreeBSD website
  

  design freebsd
  

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• Go European — Discover European products and services
  

  culture privacy
  

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• Coding on Paper
  

  hardware
  

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• Recent Kernel exploits, attack surface reduction, example IPSEC
  

  linux networking security
  

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• Subscription Bombing: Email under Attack
  

  email
  

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• Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Don't answer the first question
  

  practices
  

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• Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• How to Write to SSDs
  

  pdf databases
  

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

• LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
  

  meta philosophy
  

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• linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
  

  linux security
  

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• In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
  

  privacy security
  

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• Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
  

  web
  

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• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  

  culture practices
  

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• How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
  

  privacy
  

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• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
  

  css
  

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• Volkswagen- detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2015)
  

  javascript satire testing
  

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• PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs
  

  databases
  

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• SQL: Incorrect by Construction
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• taken
  

  privacy vibecoding web
  

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• Redis and the Cost of Ambition
  

  databases
  

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• Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
  

  hardware law
  

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• Zig vs Rust in 2026
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Local AI Needs to be the Norm
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory
  

  video games graphics historical
  

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• Learning Software Architecture
  

  practices programming
  

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• iwp9 2026
  

  satire
  

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• The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics
  

  math
  

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• Popular Go library fsnotify raises supply chain alarms after maintainer access changes
  

  go security
  

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• Fighting Hyrum's Law in LLVM
  

  compilers practices
  

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• Programmable Whitelist-based Configs: Embedding Rye in Go
  

  programming
  

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

• If I Could Make My Own GitHub
  

  programming
  

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• Why I Don’t Vibe Code
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A life update from Zach Oakes: Zig, AI, unemployment, and more
  

  video person
  

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• Techniques for better software testing
  

  testing
  

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• Android VPN IP Leak Even If Always-On VPN Enabled
  

  android privacy
  

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• Porting microgpt to Futhark, Part I
  

  ai plt
  

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• combat LLM spam by building a web of trust
  

  vcs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Monad tutorials timeline
  

  haskell
  

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• Amber-Lang 0.6.0 - New release, check what's new
  

  linux unix vibecoding
  

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• Ruby for "shell scripting" (2024)
  

  ruby
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How The Heck Does Shazam Work?
  

  math programming
  

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• Arch Linux now has a bit-for-bit reproducible Docker image
  

  linux
  

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• Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain
  

  security
  

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• We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Forge
  

  vcs
  

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• I am building a cloud
  

  devops
  

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• Borrow-checking without type-checking
  

  plt
  

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• Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (many major projects)
  

  c c++ performance rust
  

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• Markdown (2004)
  

  programming
  

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• Meshcore.io - Why The Split?
  

  distributed release
  

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• Modern rendering culling techniques
  

  graphics
  

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• Email could have been X.400 times better
  

  email
  

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