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

• And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
  

  philosophy privacy security
  

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• An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs
  

  emacs graphics
  

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• Hister - A private, full content search index that you control
  

  browsers web
  

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• A 2026 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
  

  rust
  

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• Linus Torvalds uses AI to debug an Intel GPU driver bug
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
  

  hardware rust
  

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• Stop Making TUIs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Are there any decent programs for pdf viewing and editing for Linux that replace Adobe Acrobat?
  

  ask linux programming
  

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• Programming Language Semantics and Memory Safety
  

  plt
  

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• My favorite Computer Science books, and why
  

  programming
  

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• It's OK. Do Your Thing
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
  

  security
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.98.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Better Batteries
  

  plt programming
  

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• Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened
  

  historical osdev retrocomputing
  

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• Btrfs Snapshot Integration in KDE
  

  linux osdev
  

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• Enabling the next-generation trait solver on nightly
  

  rust
  

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• Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24
  

  emacs
  

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• Opus is a minimal, statically-scoped Lisp dialect based on the semantics of f-expressions (the Kernel language)
  

  haskell lisp
  

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• Felony Bench: Be AI, Do Crime
  

  ai
  

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• Reverse-engineering Find My People to stalk ̶m̶y̶ ̶e̶x̶ a friend, cause I can
  

  reversing
  

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• Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How a joke domain purchase turned into geopolitical warfare
  

  security
  

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• Supply chain attack on arrayref
  

  rust security
  

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• Bun 1.4
  

  javascript vibecoding
  

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• What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Ploopy A+ (external trackball)
  

  hardware
  

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• Reclaim the terminal
  

  rust unix
  

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• AliExpress keeps multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Why compiling Rust to WebAssembly is slow
  

  rust wasm
  

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• Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys
  

  programming
  

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• Solo: a .so loader for static Linux binaries
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped—Everyone Is Wrong
  

  assembly plt
  

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• Things I want in a modern relational query language
  

  databases plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
  

  ios
  

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• Rethinking Database Programming
  

  databases elm plt
  

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• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
  

  ai art
  

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• How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
  

  art
  

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• Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
  

  games historical reversing
  

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• Mojo is now open source
  

  plt
  

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• What software do you use daily in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• CSS: the bomb inside your inbox
  

  security
  

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• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Does it make sense to switch to a Github Alternative ?
  

  ask programming
  

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• GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
  

  vcs
  

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• A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
  

  databases
  

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• When the Down Arrow is not an Upside-Down Up Arrow (2022)
  

  web
  

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• Passphrase-less reboots using kexec under NixOS
  

  linux nix security
  

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• People of ACM - Russ Cox
  

  go person
  

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• AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• You can just choose how many bugs you want now
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Writing a Fast Compiler
  

  compilers
  

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• Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms
  

  a11y design graphics
  

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• Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pony's Arena Allocator
  

  programming
  

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