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

• Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
  

  browsers
  

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• ActivityPub Won by Being Boring
  

  distributed web
  

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• Why I remain a skeptic
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Everything is about to “go dark”
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• What You Gain by Building Your Own Game Engine
  

  games
  

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• RVA23 vs ARMv9 a Small Experiment
  

  assembly
  

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• Comments in the code vs PR description
  

  practices vcs
  

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• There Is Still No Silver Bullet
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• We implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in the Linux Kernel, Musl Libc, and BGP
  

  linux networking vibecoding
  

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• How Is Compression Prediction?
  

  math
  

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• Computing graph dominators
  

  compsci
  

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• Serokell’s Work on GHC: Dependent Types, Part 5
  

  haskell
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
  

  python
  

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• EuroZig
  

  zig
  

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• GitHub Stacks in Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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• I want extern "fil-c"
  

  c rust
  

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• Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
  

  databases
  

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• On AI Coding and Its Discontents
  

  practices testing vibecoding
  

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• Why tiny JPEGs look different in Chrome
  

  graphics web
  

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• Unlocking _everything_ on the CPU with DRAM scrambling
  

  security
  

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• A critical review of Xilem in 2026
  

  rust
  

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• My Anti AI computer
  

  vibecoding
  

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• AI is removing the middle class of software engineering
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• What’s new in Flutter 3.47
  

  release
  

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

• I'm done using AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How Tailscale helped find the SQLite WAL-Reset bug
  

  databases
  

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• Guide to (not) fucking up QR codes
  

  design
  

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• I hate packaging my software for Linux
  

  linux
  

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• The fastest double-to-string algorithm you’ve never heard of
  

  performance
  

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• Compression is prediction
  

  programming
  

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• Analyzing My Lobsters Submissions
  

  visualization
  

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• Introducing Automatic Key Verification
  

  cryptography privacy
  

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• My Homelab Got Hacked - A Postmortem
  

  devops security
  

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• Making a game on a custom bytecode VM in 7 days and 3kB
  

  compilers games
  

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• Making [etched] holograms with a pen plotter
  

  show art graphics math
  

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• fearless_simd v0.7: 64-bit integers, improved generics, SSE2, and upcoming v1.0
  

  release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Toggles Considered Harmful
  

  design
  

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• Firefox Containers Preview
  

  browsers
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed
  

  nix
  

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• I got an email about resistance
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• a pure css implementation of some sunlight streaming in through the window
  

  css design web
  

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• Django is moving to an annual release cycle
  

  python release web
  

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• GitHub Actions needs OIDC audience constraints
  

  security
  

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• How do programming languages impact token efficiency and correctness?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets
  

  privacy security
  

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• IBM i (OS/400) The Database Operating System
  

  osdev
  

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• an ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed
  

  c
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• tl;dv (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open
  

  privacy security
  

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• i wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• python string literals are kinda funny
  

  python
  

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• jujutsu 0.44.0
  

  release vcs
  

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• A Vision for Cargo
  

  rust
  

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• GNU Hurd news 2026-q2
  

  osdev
  

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• Symbolics OpenGenera to go free for non-commercial use
  

  lisp osdev
  

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• Zig's Io.Threaded is Neat
  

  zig
  

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• I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write
  

  culture philosophy practices
  

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• C++26: #embed
  

  c++
  

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• The following is a valid DOS COM executable
  

  art programming
  

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• Painting with Gaussians
  

  graphics programming vibecoding
  

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