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

• You should never be angry at work
  

  practices
  

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• The cool things of Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
  

  distributed
  

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• Music theory for programmers
  

  art math
  

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• Turning My CASIO F-91W Into a Contactless Payment Device
  

  hardware
  

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• Compile-Time Improvements in LLVM 23
  

  compilers
  

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• Small, native web tricks worth remembering
  

  web
  

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• NetBSD and my life (2005)
  

  netbsd
  

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• rust-glancer: An alternative LSP for Rust with focus on low memory usage
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• Unfortunately you sometimes need to do the thing
  

  philosophy programming rust
  

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• Vibe coding personal apps in mid-2026
  

  vibecoding
  

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• There continue to be reasons for software to be slow
  

  performance vibecoding
  

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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
  

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• Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE
  

  linux osdev
  

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• Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
  

  rust
  

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• 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 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How a joke domain purchase turned into geopolitical warfare
  

  security
  

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• Supply chain attack on arrayref
  

  rust security
  

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• Bun 1.4
  

  javascript vibecoding
  

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• What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Ploopy A+ (external trackball)
  

  hardware
  

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• Reclaim the terminal
  

  rust unix
  

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• AliExpress keeps multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Why compiling Rust to WebAssembly is slow
  

  rust wasm
  

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• Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys
  

  programming
  

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• Solo: a .so loader for static Linux binaries
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped—Everyone Is Wrong
  

  assembly plt
  

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• Things I want in a modern relational query language
  

  databases plt
  

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

• I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong
  

  c programming
  

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• Every Fucking Website
  

  satire vibecoding web
  

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• A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"
  

  a11y culture hardware
  

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• Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage
  

  rust
  

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• A Tour of Magit's Status Interface
  

  emacs vcs
  

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• Recap: Software Should Work 2026
  

  event programming
  

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• Zig Day Seattle, WA #3
  

  event zig
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode
  

  nix
  

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• What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI
  

  python
  

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• A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
  

  assembly c++ math performance
  

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• How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
  

  games networking programming
  

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• Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends
  

  vcs
  

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

• Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess"
  

  practices
  

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• OxiSH: SSH server written in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Curl Performance
  

  performance
  

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• A preview of Roc 0.1.0
  

  video compsci
  

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• The Art of CHIP-8
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024)
  

  video databases
  

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• A long division story
  

  compsci math
  

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• RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
  

  assembly compilers rant
  

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• SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public git repositories
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
  

  design email
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Write for people
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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