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

• The Slurptop: A home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries
  

  art hardware
  

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• Balloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved
  

  c++
  

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• Vim Classic
  

  editors vim
  

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• POSIX wordexp(3) is dangerous
  

  c security
  

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• Partial Order Precedence
  

  zig
  

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• How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
  

  programming
  

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• Twelve years of distributed SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• An Incremental Approach to JIT Construction
  

  pdf compilers education
  

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• No Source Code? No Problem! What if you have to port a program, but all you have is a binary? (2003)
  

  games reversing
  

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• MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)
  

  systemd
  

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• This week's "node2shell" Brotli vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497) is exploitable in Python, other consumers of Brotli
  

  security web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I want my Wednesday back
  

  php security
  

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• Attention people who think UB is fine
  

  c c++
  

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• Indian government sites are serving revoked eMudhra certificates
  

  security
  

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• a neat trick i found for reusing physical memory
  

  c programming
  

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• Be Aware of What's in Your Logs
  

  debugging
  

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• Bringing uv and ty together
  

  python
  

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• Wild version 0.11.0 released
  

  mac release rust
  

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• Emacs finally folds to my liking
  

  emacs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• The Many Many Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06
  

  games graphics reversing
  

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• I built a garbage collector for Rust (2023)
  

  rust
  

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• What's wrong with AI?
  

  culture
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Docker is weird
  

  programming
  

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• Please don't mess with links
  

  web
  

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• We have Traits at Home
  

  zig
  

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• UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does
  

  distributed python
  

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• The glorious @xkcdRandom Zig builtin
  

  compilers satire zig
  

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• Expose only share links of a private service with caddy
  

  devops security
  

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• How close can pure FP get to C?
  

  performance programming
  

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• Debunking "Faster than Rust": Malicious Benchmarks in Tov
  

  performance
  

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• Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages
  

  performance
  

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• a hacky fucked up way to portably access errno from outside of c
  

  c
  

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• Objects, attributes, maps, oh my
  

  compilers
  

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• Tell your network to explain itself and then some
  

  networking
  

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

• examining the macOS gcc binary
  

  mac reversing
  

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• CVE-2026-107891: musl libc: multiple integer overflow in regcomp, possibly leading to incorrect allocation sizes and out-of-bounds heap writes
  

  c security
  

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• Google's Rust Style Guide
  

  rust
  

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• jailbreaking the switch 2
  

  ai-tooling hardware reversing security
  

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• Don't throw it all away: Caching an immediate-mode UI
  

  graphics performance
  

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• Using a lookup-table to correct an approximation
  

  performance
  

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• Understanding Nix flakes
  

  nix
  

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• Flow Typing, A New Lens on Linearity
  

  plt
  

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• Passkeys Attestation Trap
  

  security web
  

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• Railway Security Disclosure: Wednesday October 21st
  

  devops security
  

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• Quad9 DNS Resolver to exit France
  

  law networking
  

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• Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”
  

  databases release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release
  

  php security
  

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• Firefox Local Mode
  

  browsers
  

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• Unikernels in OCaml
  

  ml osdev
  

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• Do minor curl vulnerabilities in the open
  

  security
  

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• The Future of CSS
  

  css
  

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• zls 0.17.0
  

  zig
  

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• Mastodon 5.0: A closer look
  

  design release
  

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• Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Vector Graphics in Lil
  

  apl graphics
  

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• Lobsters NYC Meetup on the 28th of October
  

  event
  

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• Why do we need ud2 when int 6 is right there?
  

  assembly
  

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• Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog
  

  graphics hardware
  

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