The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• wsl9x: Windows 9x subsystem for Linux
  

  assembly linux retrocomputing windows
  

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• AI as a Fascist Artifact
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Highlights from Git 2.54
  

  release vcs
  

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• Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not—it’s all very confusing
  

  vibecoding
  

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• What are your favorite Emacs packages?
  

  ask emacs
  

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• I don't want your PRs anymore
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The Edge of Safe Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• Switching from uv to PDM
  

  python
  

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• Performance of the Wren programming language
  

  plt
  

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• Emacs is my browser
  

  emacs
  

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• Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta
  

  javascript release
  

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• Features everyone should steal from npmx
  

  javascript
  

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

• The age of snarky UI
  

  design rant
  

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• IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
  

  networking
  

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• AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
  

  practices
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.95.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
  

  windows
  

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• I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Let Sleeping CPUs Lie — S0ix
  

  freebsd hardware
  

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• Modern Common Lisp with FSet
  

  book lisp
  

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• Stop using JWTs
  

  security
  

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• Xata: Open source Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero
  

  databases
  

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• Mastodon: Don't use "mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names
  

  distributed
  

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• Too much Discussion of the XOR swap trick
  

  programming
  

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

• It's OK to compare floating-points for equality
  

  compsci programming
  

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• I don't care that it's X times faster
  

  performance rant
  

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• Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters
  

  compilers
  

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• Things you didn't know about indexes
  

  databases
  

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• Saying Goodbye to Agile
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
  

  law
  

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• The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client
  

  web
  

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• Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
  

  security
  

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• Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16
  

  c
  

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• My PR has been waiting a year, or the exponential curve behind open source backlogs
  

  programming
  

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• SDL3 - Add DOS platform support
  

  c games programming retrocomputing
  

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• TruffleRuby 34: full Ruby 3.4 compatibility, up to 23% faster parsing, and a new Prism-based Ripper with 20x speedups
  

  release ruby
  

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

• The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
  

  networking
  

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• The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026
  

  linux mac windows
  

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• A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Someone at BrowserStack is Leaking Users' Email Address
  

  privacy
  

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• The Seed Beneath the Snow
  

  practices
  

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• Using Discord on Plan 9
  

  osdev
  

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• Someone good at CSS help, my website design is dying
  

  css
  

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• Git’s Magic Files
  

  vcs
  

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• The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• OpenSSH begins warning for non-PQC key exchanges
  

  networking security
  

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• I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True
  

  mac vibecoding web
  

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• What text editor (cli or gui) are you using for writing non-code?
  

  ask practices
  

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

• unnix: Reproducible Nix environments without installing Nix
  

  nix
  

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• Easters - an adventofcode-like challenge for easter
  

  show event games programming
  

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• DPI bypass using eBPF sock_ops and fake TLS ClientHello injection
  

  c linux networking security
  

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• Mvidia: A game where you build a GPU
  

  graphics hardware
  

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• Parsing AsciiDoc in Prolog
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Packaging and Init Systems
  

  linux rant
  

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• Building a dry-run mode for the OpenTelemetry Collector
  

  linux practices
  

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• Components of A Coding Agent
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Make your own ColecoVision at home, part 5
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Accumulated Test Vectors
  

  cryptography testing
  

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• Growing Yggdrasil, the World Tree, with Ash
  

  elixir web
  

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