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

• Jim's TrueType QR Code Font
  

  programming
  

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• a software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
  

  programming
  

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• Announcing TypeScript 7.0
  

  javascript release
  

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• Obfuscated bash script by Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores
  

  reversing unix
  

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• A bug which only affected left-handed users
  

  a11y web
  

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• OpenBSD through 7.9 has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (CVE-2026-57589)
  

  openbsd security
  

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• Your Rust Service Isn't Leaking — It Could Be the Allocator
  

  rust
  

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• I was wrong about game development
  

  games ios mobile
  

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• Mechanized type inference for record concatenation
  

  plt
  

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• NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta
  

  plt visualization
  

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• Signed Integers By Default
  

  plt
  

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• The Popup That Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
  

  ios vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Fourteener Lobsters
  

  announce
  

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• crustc: Entirety of rustc, translated to C
  

  rust
  

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• No LLM code in dependencies
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Clickhouse is winning the Observability Wars
  

  devops
  

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• ds.css: A css framework recreating the DS / DS Lite's UI
  

  css
  

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• Why implementing ActivityPub is hard, and why it doesn't have to be
  

  distributed web
  

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• Arbitrary code execution breaking sandboxes in KDE Plasma
  

  security
  

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• Tools or techniques for conveying mental models?
  

  ask philosophy programming
  

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• Since Linux 6.9 (May 2024), the LUKS encryption key remained resident in memory across suspend
  

  linux
  

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• My quest to see all of Tetris
  

  performance testing
  

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• kernel asynchronous reads in PostgreSQL 19 (io_uring)
  

  databases linux
  

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• Diving into the depths of Widevine L3
  

  cryptography reversing
  

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

• KDE Plasma 6.7 released
  

  linux release
  

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• NetNewsWire Status
  

  mac swift
  

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• FreeBSD 15 on a Laptop
  

  freebsd
  

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• Banned book library in a Wi-Fi lightbulb
  

  hardware reversing
  

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• Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers
  

  browsers
  

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• The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation
  

  historical windows
  

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• What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
  

  devops distributed
  

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• A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• savearoundtrip: publish an HTTPS DNS record, skip a round trip
  

  networking vibecoding web
  

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• Oxygen 6.7 is here: a breath of fresh air for KDE’s classic theme
  

  design
  

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• Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
  

  games math
  

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• Boot Naked Linux
  

  c linux
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline
  

  person
  

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• SQLite Does Not Accept Agentic Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• One year of Roto, the compiled scripting language for Rust
  

  rust
  

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• bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
  

  performance programming
  

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• Emacs bra size calculator
  

  emacs
  

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• You probably don't need Yocto, and that's fine
  

  linux
  

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• tail CI logs over SSH
  

  vcs web
  

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• jjc: Non-interactive hunk-level operations for Jujutsu
  

  rust vcs
  

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• How do you version public web APIs?
  

  ask api
  

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• Leaving performance on the table
  

  compilers performance
  

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• Package managers that package package managers
  

  compsci linux practices
  

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• Patching my guitar amp's firmware
  

  hardware reversing
  

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

• Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It
  

  distributed historical networking
  

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• Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox
  

  browsers web
  

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• Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines
  

  python
  

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• C Programming Language Quiz
  

  c
  

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• A Forth-inspired language for writing websites
  

  concatenative web
  

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• FTC to Require Cox Media Group to Pay Nearly $1million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service
  

  privacy
  

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• Introducing the pkg.go.dev API
  

  go
  

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• How to open calc.exe from S&Box
  

  debugging dotnet reversing security
  

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• Kubernetes In Anger
  

  devops
  

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• Megalodon: Mass GitHub Repo Backdooring via CI Workflows
  

  security
  

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• OpenSMTPD Is The Mail Server For The Future
  

  email openbsd
  

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• Designing Firefox for the future
  

  browsers
  

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