The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The social contract of writing
  

  philosophy
  

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• The Eternal Sloptember
  

  culture programming vibecoding
  

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• JS Crossword - a crossword where the clue = eval(answer)
  

  javascript web
  

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• Flatpak will depend on systemd
  

  linux systemd
  

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• Using AI to write better code more slowly
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Switching to Colemak
  

  a11y
  

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• Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas
  

  ai philosophy
  

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• Scoped Error in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
  

  c compilers
  

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• The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine
  

  historical practices
  

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• Nix's Substituter List Is Not a Routing Table
  

  nix
  

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• No Linux support on free version of Vivado 2026.1
  

  hardware
  

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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 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker
  

  programming security windows
  

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• The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
  

  privacy
  

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• Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software
  

  performance
  

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• Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
  

  mac unix
  

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• A 16-byte x86 demo: Matrix rain with sound
  

  graphics performance retrocomputing
  

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• Reviewing so called Pull Requests at $dayjob
  

  practices vcs
  

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• The occasional `ECONNRESET`
  

  linux networking
  

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• May I recommend eww for Emacs’s innovative UI?
  

  emacs
  

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• De‐bloating Javascript
  

  java lisp wasm
  

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• Find bugs in YOUR code using OpenCode, Llama.cpp and Qwen3.6
  

  debugging vibecoding
  

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• Reverse engineering Android malware with Claude Code
  

  android reversing vibecoding
  

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• Rust async and the ARM generic timer
  

  hardware rust
  

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

• Ascetic Computing
  

  practices
  

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• Git Is Not Fine
  

  vcs
  

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• Announcing the Zulip Foundation
  

  programming
  

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• 5× faster fast_blur in image-rs
  

  math programming rust
  

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• Open Source Resistance
  

  practices
  

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• My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• The CTF scene is dead
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• A History of IDEs at Google
  

  editors programming
  

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• Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
  

  web windows
  

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• why use F# for scripting and automation?
  

  dotnet ml
  

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• A few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS
  

  css
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
  

  design historical
  

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• Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
  

  browsers web
  

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• Hoot 0.9.0 released
  

  lisp release wasm
  

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• Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
  

  windows
  

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• Fragnesia: New Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit
  

  linux security
  

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• YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability
  

  security windows
  

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• 5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake
  

  plt web
  

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• Lua as a practical "soft-bedrock" language
  

  lua practices
  

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• Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability
  

  security
  

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• "This is written by an LLM" comments should be flagged as off-topic
  

  meta
  

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• httpx2 - Fork by Pydantic
  

  python
  

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