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

• Why are we even doing all this?
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• Linus Torvalds on AI-assisted kernel contributions
  

  linux vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Forgejo v17.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

  Comments
• On the technical actions needed to ensure the continuity of UTC
  

  science
  

  Comments
• The road to iroh 1.0
  

  networking
  

  Comments
• Religious Studies In Software Engineering
  

  culture philosophy
  

  Comments
• The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed
  

  cryptography
  

  Comments
• Making a 88x31 button book using ImageMagick
  

  art
  

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• Epic's EAC2 v2 seems fairly easily bypassable
  

  linux security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.99.1
  

  release rust
  

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• Where did WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN come from? (2009)
  

  historical windows
  

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• Gleam case exhaustiveness, as a fan
  

  compilers gleam
  

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

• Introducing Firefox Enterprise
  

  browsers release web
  

  Comments
• Plasma 6.8 released (KDE's 30th birthday)
  

  linux release
  

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• Fancy Curl Sites
  

  web
  

  Comments
• Announcing Lix 2.96 “Bingsu”
  

  nix release
  

  Comments
• Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

  Comments
• What I Self-Host | Aspirational Self Hosting Guide
  

  devops linux osdev web
  

  Comments
• Redesigning source control at Anthropic
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
  

  cryptography security
  

  Comments
• yet another place where a linux man page is inaccurate
  

  c linux
  

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• Apple: Switch to Safari (from Chrome)
  

  browsers
  

  Comments
• Factor 0.102 now available
  

  concatenative release
  

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• Creusot 0.14.0 release - Contracts for Rust, formally proved
  

  formalmethods release rust
  

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

• I'm still around.. I'm just not writing here
  

  culture
  

  Comments
• What's Wrong with GitHub
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• LineageOS 24.0 released
  

  android mobile release
  

  Comments
• How big is a Git commit?
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• I'm sorry, but you still have to think
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Valen's Memory Safety: A New Kind of Borrow Checking
  

  compilers plt
  

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• D-Bus Hell
  

  person satire
  

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• How shredding JSON is giving Logfire 1000x query speedups
  

  databases performance
  

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• Inside a 1980s filter chip that uses switched capacitors
  

  hardware historical reversing
  

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• Kiesel Devlog #15: Release 0.4.0
  

  javascript zig
  

  Comments
• The 2D physics prototype behind GTA’s vehicles
  

  games
  

  Comments
• Why 'externalized' proofs of cyclic trait impls does not work
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Missing Piece in Rust Error Handling
  

  rust
  

  Comments
• Programming Isn’t Special
  

  art vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Bevy 0.20
  

  games release rust
  

  Comments
• 64-Day Certificate Lifetimes Coming Feb 2027
  

  devops security
  

  Comments
• Unison Cloud is now open source
  

  release
  

  Comments
• A tale of four theorem provers, or: A (reasonably) opinionated comparison of Isabelle/HOL, Lean, HOL4, and Agda
  

  design plt
  

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• Why Are Coding Agents So Dumb?
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Beauty in DVD Menus
  

  art
  

  Comments
• Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs
  

  pdf formalmethods math reversing vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Python 3.15.0
  

  python release
  

  Comments
• Extending Guix
  

  nix
  

  Comments
• The Performance Cost of RwLock in Our Read-Heavy Workload
  

  performance rust
  

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

• Calling a function in C without naming it
  

  c security
  

  Comments
• The people holding up the internet
  

  historical web
  

  Comments
• I've Been Deindexed by Google
  

  practices
  

  Comments
• An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust
  

  rust vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Creating distro build tooling for a small community
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• jujutsu (jj) 0.46.0
  

  release vcs
  

  Comments
• rat's minimal register allocator
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Gentoo infrastructure sponsors wanted
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• Twenty-two pending curl vulnerabilities
  

  release security
  

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• Ending the Casuarina Linux Experiment
  

  linux
  

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• Zeroization, part 1: Wiping can make things worse
  

  compilers security
  

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• Beyond the &
  

  rust
  

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