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

• Linus Torvalds on LLM usage in kernel development
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite is Going
  

  compilers rust zig
  

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• Forgejo v16.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• Microsoft Confirms Windows GDID Device Identifier That Cannot Be Disabled, Documented in FBI Case Filing
  

  security windows
  

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• Detecting Full Table Scans With SQLite
  

  databases ruby
  

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• Your AI Is Not a Tool
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Abstracting effects with continuations
  

  gleam
  

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• AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth
  

  ai
  

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• Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
  

  release retrocomputing
  

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• How C++20 improved the for-loop syntax
  

  c++
  

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• Empathy and delight mean nothing when the software is disrespectful
  

  design programming
  

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• Guix: creating a package from a binary
  

  nix
  

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

• You should probably check on your smart appliances
  

  security web
  

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• SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
  

  databases
  

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• FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
  

  freebsd
  

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• How I use HTMX with Go
  

  go web
  

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• The Memory Heist
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• qr-swastika-avoider v0.1.0
  

  rust
  

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• C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake
  

  c
  

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• How my images are dithered
  

  graphics
  

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• The Tower Keeps Rising
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Low Resource Computing 2026
  

  event
  

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• Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
  

  games linux
  

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• a bunch of stuff i used to not know about K&R C
  

  c historical
  

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

• Where did my segfault go?
  

  c unix
  

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• Who does Anubis actually stop?
  

  web
  

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• Evan's Jujutsu Tutorial
  

  vcs
  

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• Good Tools Are Invisible
  

  editors practices vim
  

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• The Proportional Web
  

  design web
  

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• Closing a three-year-old issue using Rust arenas
  

  performance rust
  

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• In defense of not understanding your codebase
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Working With AI: A Concrete Example
  

  vibecoding web
  

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• ghostel.el - Terminal emulator powered by libghostty
  

  emacs
  

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• reaction: A daemon that scans program outputs for repeated patterns, and takes action
  

  security
  

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• Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs
  

  retrocomputing web
  

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• Gamedev in Zig is actually pretty good (2025)
  

  video zig
  

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

• An update on the scraper situation
  

  security web
  

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• I tried NetBSD as a desktop, and it felt like stepping into the '90s in a good way
  

  netbsd
  

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• I converted an Android app to a webpage
  

  mobile web
  

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• Madame Semver Will See You Now
  

  satire
  

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• Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
  

  databases vibecoding
  

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• After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
  

  haskell vibecoding
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Package Management as Org Chart
  

  devops satire
  

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• Zeal Z80-based computer
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• AI Surveillance and Social Progress
  

  ai culture privacy
  

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• What Every Python Developer Should Know About the CPython ABI
  

  c python
  

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• Running 1000 tests in 1s (2022)
  

  javascript performance testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Jim's TrueType QR Code Font
  

  programming
  

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• a software engineering interview question I like: computing the median
  

  programming
  

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• Announcing TypeScript 7.0
  

  javascript release
  

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• Obfuscated bash script by Akamai being supplied to consumers via retail stores
  

  reversing unix
  

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• A bug which only affected left-handed users
  

  a11y web
  

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• OpenBSD through 7.9 has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (CVE-2026-57589)
  

  openbsd security
  

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• Your Rust Service Isn't Leaking — It Could Be the Allocator
  

  rust
  

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• I was wrong about game development
  

  games ios mobile
  

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• Mechanized type inference for record concatenation
  

  plt
  

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• NoiseLang: Where N = 5 is a Dirac delta
  

  plt visualization
  

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• Signed Integers By Default
  

  plt
  

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• The Popup That Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
  

  ios vibecoding
  

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