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

• lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
  

  meta
  

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• Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if
  

  c performance
  

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• Just Let Me Write Digits
  

  a11y javascript web
  

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• Human Emacs
  

  emacs
  

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• crates.io: development update
  

  rust
  

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• IPv6 over drainage pipe
  

  culture hardware networking
  

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• A WWDC 26 Update on Building a Mac-assed App with SwiftUI
  

  swift
  

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• Hacker Fables - A satirical cyberpunk novella you can read as a man page
  

  book art satire
  

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• Know thine enemy: A critical engagement with AI-assisted software development
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Overhauled homelab
  

  hardware networking
  

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• How early SunOS did diskless workstations before NFS
  

  historical unix
  

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• Browsers Do Math Differently on Every OS; Anti-Bot Systems Read the Bits
  

  browsers privacy
  

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

• Bevy 0.19
  

  games release
  

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• OCaml 5.5.0 released
  

  compilers ml release
  

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• I am dreading our LLM-written incident report future
  

  devops vibecoding
  

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• Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside
  

  rust
  

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• Is anyone still using Emacs?
  

  emacs
  

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• WikiSpy
  

  design visualization
  

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• There Are No Instances in atproto
  

  web
  

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• Meet Alice. Alice is impatient
  

  math performance
  

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• SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible
  

  release
  

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• Town Square, the community deserves connection
  

  vibecoding web
  

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• UHF X11: X11 built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro
  

  unix
  

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• So You Want To Define a Well-Known URI
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on June 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• To my students
  

  education vibecoding
  

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• Winners of the 2025 International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC 29)
  

  c
  

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• How LLMs Actually Work
  

  ai
  

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• The User Doesn't Care - But you should
  

  practices
  

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• Ergonomic overrides for Nixpkgs
  

  nix plt
  

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• Moving beyond fork() + exec()
  

  unix
  

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• The Guix Nix Abomination: Leveraging Guix derivations in Nix
  

  nix
  

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• ntsc-rs - an accurate VHS video effect
  

  graphics programming
  

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• It doesn’t always have to be Linux
  

  video freebsd
  

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• mold-desktop
  

  lisp osdev
  

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• Magecart skimmer turns Stripe into a malware command server
  

  security
  

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• A Little Explanation of Little's Law
  

  performance practices
  

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