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

• Nitter, XCancel Shutdown Over Cease-And-Desist
  

  culture privacy web
  

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• Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer
  

  satire
  

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• OpenOffice does not print on Tuesdays (2009)
  

  linux
  

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• EasyEffects should be part of every Linux distribution to improve laptop speaker sound quality
  

  linux
  

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• UNIX V4 workshop at Low Resource Computing
  

  unix
  

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• htmx 4.0.0 has been released
  

  release vibecoding web
  

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• Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak
  

  linux
  

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• Yap: a particular kind of slop
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• A Million Kakapos
  

  culture finance vibecoding
  

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• Ardour 9.8 released
  

  release
  

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• Quest for eternal dock on Wayland - lambdock (C + GTK4 + Lisp GNU Guile Scheme)
  

  c lisp
  

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• How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
  

  distributed performance
  

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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 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park
  

  satire
  

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• A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
  

  unix
  

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• Super Mario Derivations
  

  games nix retrocomputing
  

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• Taste Is All That's Left
  

  vibecoding
  

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• the web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
  

  web
  

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• Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD
  

  netbsd web
  

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• Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out
  

  practices
  

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• How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
  

  c games graphics retrocomputing
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Finally adding recursive functions to Futhark
  

  plt
  

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• cl-forth: Forth 2012 Standard in CL
  

  concatenative lisp
  

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• Some ways to navigate through 'git blame' over time in GNU Emacs
  

  emacs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• help wanted
  

  rant satire vibecoding
  

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• Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation)
  

  culture
  

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• Don't be a meat proxy
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Kill the Cookie Banner
  

  law privacy
  

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• 9front "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" Released
  

  art release
  

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• Faster floating point math with Rust’s new API
  

  performance rust
  

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• Your JSON Is Lying to You
  

  javascript
  

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• I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence
  

  performance vibecoding
  

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• Getting Started with Google Wave (2010)
  

  video design
  

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• Rust Project Goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
  

  rust
  

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• How fast is C++26’s std::hive?
  

  c++
  

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• Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy (2000)
  

  practices
  

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

• Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window
  

  browsers mac windows
  

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• A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
  

  programming
  

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• Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
  

  dotnet go performance
  

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• stinkpot: sqlite-backed shell history
  

  show go
  

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• Zig by Example
  

  zig
  

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• Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
  

  android
  

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• We Are Not Special (2021)
  

  practices
  

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• Your harddrive is probably full
  

  culture performance practices
  

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• Interview with a Maintainer
  

  satire
  

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• git rebase -i is not that scary
  

  vcs
  

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• Systems and Delays (2026)
  

  math
  

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• the perils of parsing type inference declarations in c
  

  c
  

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