The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• QBE - Compiler Backend: Version 1.3
  

  compilers release
  

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• Announcing Zstandard in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• It's Not Just X. It's Y
  

  ai vibecoding
  

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• You Don't Love systemd Timers Enough
  

  systemd
  

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• github and the crime against software
  

  devops distributed
  

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• Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
  

  graphics math
  

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• The S in interoperability
  

  practices security
  

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• securix: NixOS-based secure operating system. Provides a hardened environment with strong isolation, reproducibility, and policy-driven configurations
  

  nix security
  

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• Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/http/httptrace
  

  debugging go
  

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• Arch Linux: Breaking changes for all users of `varnish`, which is renamed to `vinyl-cache`
  

  linux
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• The postmodern build system
  

  nix
  

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

• The social contract of writing
  

  philosophy
  

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• The Eternal Sloptember
  

  culture programming vibecoding
  

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• JS Crossword - a crossword where the clue = eval(answer)
  

  javascript web
  

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• Flatpak will depend on systemd
  

  linux systemd
  

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• Using AI to write better code more slowly
  

  practices vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Switching to Colemak
  

  a11y
  

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• Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas
  

  ai philosophy
  

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• Scoped Error in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• On C extensions, portability, and alternative compilers
  

  c compilers
  

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• The Soul of Maintaining a New Machine
  

  historical practices
  

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• Nix's Substituter List Is Not a Routing Table
  

  nix
  

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• No Linux support on free version of Vivado 2026.1
  

  hardware
  

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

• NetHack 5.0.0
  

  games release
  

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• Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
  

  programming
  

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• The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
  

  a11y
  

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• A GitHub for maintainers
  

  vcs
  

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• Fake Notepad++ for Mac
  

  editors mac web
  

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• Unsigned sizes: a five year mistake
  

  c plt
  

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• pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
  

  databases
  

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• My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS
  

  linux systemd
  

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• Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Servers with Personality
  

  hardware networking
  

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• This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code
  

  assembly wasm
  

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• GIT - the stupid content tracker
  

  vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Competence as Tragedy
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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• Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
  

  mobile privacy
  

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• Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
  

  reversing security
  

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• Easily write Bash with a transpiler
  

  linux unix
  

  Comments
• GDPR Enforcement Is Broken
  

  law privacy
  

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• Sukr: A minimal static site compiler in Rust with zero-JS output
  

  release rust vibecoding web
  

  Comments
• Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back
  

  windows
  

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• java sucks (2000)
  

  java programming
  

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• I miss thinking hard
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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• I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input
  

  security unix
  

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• Fitting Some Files Through A Stdout-Shaped Hole
  

  devops
  

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• LFS/BLFS will no longer be developing the System V versions
  

  linux systemd
  

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

• Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
  

  security
  

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• GNU Guix 1.5.0 released
  

  nix
  

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• AGENTS.md as a dark signal
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
  

  networking performance vibecoding
  

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• What has Docker become?
  

  devops
  

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• Selectively Disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1
  

  networking
  

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• We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder
  

  games
  

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• Explainer: Tree-sitter vs. LSP
  

  editors programming
  

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• remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk with systemd initrd on Arch
  

  linux systemd
  

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• The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly
  

  compilers lisp wasm
  

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• CTA Hierarchy in the Wild
  

  design
  

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• Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly
  

  lisp wasm
  

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