The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Pokemon Gen2 compression myth
  

  games historical performance
  

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• GitHub Source Code Breach - TeamPCP Claims Access to Internal Source Code
  

  security
  

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• pgBackRest will continue
  

  databases
  

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• Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years
  

  programming ruby
  

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• I am not a Software Engineer
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly (2024)
  

  api
  

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• Saying goodbye to asm.js
  

  browsers javascript
  

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• Everything in C is undefined behavior
  

  c
  

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• Erasing Existentials
  

  rust
  

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• Software's Centaur Era
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Super Tiny Compiler, but in Ada
  

  plt programming
  

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• Golfing Zig ELF Binaries (2025)
  

  programming unix zig
  

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

• Just Fucking Use Go
  

  go
  

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• Ploopy Bean - external trackpoint
  

  hardware
  

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• Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?
  

  historical programming
  

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• Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo
  

  security
  

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• Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue
  

  databases performance
  

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• Stop MITM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider
  

  cryptography devops security
  

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• Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story
  

  ruby
  

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• blaise: A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8
  

  compilers vibecoding
  

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• Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM
  

  networking web
  

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• Mojo v1.0.0b1
  

  ai plt release
  

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• building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
  

  assembly web
  

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• cuda-oxide: cuda-oxide is an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• If I Could Make My Own GitHub
  

  programming
  

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• Why I Don’t Vibe Code
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A life update from Zach Oakes: Zig, AI, unemployment, and more
  

  video person
  

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• Techniques for better software testing
  

  testing
  

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• Android VPN IP Leak Even If Always-On VPN Enabled
  

  android privacy
  

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• Porting microgpt to Futhark, Part I
  

  ai plt
  

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• combat LLM spam by building a web of trust
  

  vcs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Monad tutorials timeline
  

  haskell
  

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• Amber-Lang 0.6.0 - New release, check what's new
  

  linux unix vibecoding
  

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• Ruby for "shell scripting" (2024)
  

  ruby
  

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

• Yojam: a macOS default-browser shim that routes URLs through a rule engine
  

  mac release
  

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• Hello old new “Projects” directory
  

  linux programming
  

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• waves & particles
  

  art
  

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• When compilers surprise you
  

  compilers
  

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• The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
  

  hardware historical science
  

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• Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)
  

  historical
  

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• How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety
  

  debugging go
  

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• Lenses in Rust and My Solution
  

  plt rust
  

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• Healthchecks.io Now Uses Self-hosted Object Storage
  

  scaling
  

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• The Secret Life of Circuits
  

  hardware
  

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• Optimizing Ruby Path Methods
  

  c performance ruby
  

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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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