The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
  

  security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.98.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Better Batteries
  

  plt programming
  

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• Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
  

  historical osdev retrocomputing
  

  Comments
• Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE
  

  linux osdev
  

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• Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
  

  rust
  

  Comments
• Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
  

  emacs
  

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• Opus is a minimal, statically-scoped Lisp dialect based on the semantics of f-expressions (the Kernel language)
  

  haskell lisp
  

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• Felony Bench: Be AI, Do Crime
  

  ai
  

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• Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk ̶m̶y̶ ̶e̶x̶ a friend, cause I can
  

  reversing
  

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• Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• HTML Can Do That
  

  web
  

  Comments
• Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Mastodon 5.0: Laying the foundation
  

  design web
  

  Comments
• Kakoune code editor
  

  editors
  

  Comments
• Plain Text Accounting is Pretty Cool
  

  finance
  

  Comments
• Go 1.27 is released
  

  go release
  

  Comments
• Why I still hand write my commit messages
  

  practices vcs vibecoding
  

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• Introducing Microlighter
  

  javascript
  

  Comments
• Odin's New Inline Assembly Templates
  

  assembly plt programming
  

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• a filename when none exists
  

  programming
  

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• SQLite for Everything
  

  databases
  

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• Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
  

  video mac
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
  

  python
  

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• EuroZig
  

  zig
  

  Comments
• GitHub Stacks in Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• I want extern "fil-c"
  

  c rust
  

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• Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
  

  databases
  

  Comments
• On AI Coding and Its Discontents
  

  practices testing vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
  

  graphics web
  

  Comments
• Unlocking _everything_ on the CPU with DRAM scrambling
  

  security
  

  Comments
• A critical review of Xilem in 2026
  

  rust
  

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• My Anti AI computer
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
  

  practices vibecoding
  

  Comments
• What’s new in Flutter 3.47
  

  release
  

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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
  

  Comments
• I hate packaging my software for Linux
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• 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 12, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Chicken Scheme 6.0 released
  

  lisp release
  

  Comments
• GNOME Shell Design Dreams
  

  design
  

  Comments
• Reviewing code is a skill
  

  practices vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Bevy's Sixth Birthday
  

  games rust
  

  Comments
• Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix
  

  historical unix
  

  Comments
• We're not done with point clouds
  

  performance rust
  

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• No, local models will not win
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Breaking up (lines) is hard to do
  

  python
  

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• The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves
  

  math visualization
  

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• Briar is in maintenance mode
  

  mobile networking
  

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• Squeak 6.1
  

  release
  

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• Restricting trait implementability and field mutability
  

  rust
  

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