The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Life is too short for a slow terminal
  

  linux performance
  

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• An announcement from the Steering Council regarding the JIT project
  

  python
  

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• The smallest C++ binary
  

  linux
  

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• PolyForm Licenses
  

  law
  

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• The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
  

  privacy security
  

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• Win16 Memory Management
  

  historical programming windows
  

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• If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
  

  pdf ai
  

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• Total Reciprocity Public License
  

  law
  

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• The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
  

  clojure databases
  

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• Using Fedora Silverblue for Compositor Development
  

  linux
  

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• Let's stop using flags as down-vote
  

  meta culture
  

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• Getting silly with C, part &((int*)-8)[3]
  

  c satire
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• LLM generated submissions should be disallowed
  

  meta philosophy
  

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• linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
  

  linux security
  

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• In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Mullvad exit IPs as a fingerprinting vector
  

  privacy security
  

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• Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt
  

  web
  

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• The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
  

  culture practices
  

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• How I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
  

  privacy
  

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• Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
  

  css
  

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• Volkswagen- detects when your tests are being run in a CI server, and makes them pass (2015)
  

  javascript satire testing
  

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• PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10 closing 11 CVEs
  

  databases
  

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• SQL: Incorrect by Construction
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• taken
  

  privacy vibecoding web
  

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• Redis and the Cost of Ambition
  

  databases
  

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• Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
  

  hardware law
  

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• Zig vs Rust in 2026
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Local AI Needs to be the Norm
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory
  

  video games graphics historical
  

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• Learning Software Architecture
  

  practices programming
  

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• iwp9 2026
  

  satire
  

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• The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics
  

  math
  

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• Popular Go library fsnotify raises supply chain alarms after maintainer access changes
  

  go security
  

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• Fighting Hyrum's Law in LLVM
  

  compilers practices
  

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• Programmable Whitelist-based Configs: Embedding Rye in Go
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• cursed_browser: A web browser with no rendering engine — the VLM reads the HTML and hallucinates the page
  

  browsers satire vibecoding
  

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• Programming Still Sucks
  

  culture practices
  

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• Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem
  

  ai
  

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• Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
  

  linux security
  

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• jj v0.41.0 is out
  

  release vcs
  

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• AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A PHP license change is imminent
  

  law php
  

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• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
  

  browsers security vibecoding
  

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• Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC
  

  video emacs lisp
  

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• Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)
  

  plt
  

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• The Original Super Mario 64 Is Now Playable On GBA
  

  games
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up
  

  networking security vibecoding
  

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• A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management
  

  c c++ programming satire
  

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• Lua can be a really cool HTML templating engine
  

  lua web
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.0
  

  linux release
  

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• Dillo release 3.3.0
  

  browsers release
  

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• It's OK To Use Floating Point for Money
  

  satire
  

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• It's OK to use coding assistance tools to revive the projects you never were going to finish
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Smolwebifying my site
  

  web
  

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• The fastest Linux timestamps
  

  linux performance
  

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• My Homemade PBX
  

  hardware
  

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• Swissing a table
  

  go
  

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• I have officially retired from Emacs
  

  vibecoding
  

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