The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
  

  ios
  

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• Rethinking Database Programming
  

  databases elm plt
  

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• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
  

  ai art
  

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• How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
  

  art
  

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• Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
  

  games historical reversing
  

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• Mojo is now open source
  

  plt
  

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• What software do you use daily in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• CSS: the bomb inside your inbox
  

  security
  

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• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation
  

  compilers performance zig
  

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• Framework 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
  

  hardware
  

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• Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk
  

  graphics
  

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• Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD
  

  openbsd web
  

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• Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly
  

  browsers
  

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• Finding bugs in Raft implementations
  

  distributed testing
  

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• Quick & Easy Parser Combinators
  

  programming
  

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• I Designed A Custom PCB To Avoid Pressing A Button Three Times
  

  c hardware reversing
  

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• Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1
  

  historical windows
  

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• Seriously, what is the large code-model even for?
  

  assembly compilers
  

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• Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s fleet management platform to gain control over all users and vehicles
  

  security
  

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• What even are microservices?
  

  distributed philosophy
  

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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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