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 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Dithered QR codes
  

  art graphics
  

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• Rails is done
  

  culture ruby
  

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• Who Should Pay For Source Code Availability?
  

  vcs zig
  

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• Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
  

  debugging
  

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• Mea Culpa - Dark Hours
  

  vibecoding
  

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• IRC technology news from the first half of 2026
  

  networking
  

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• I think the vibecoding tag has gotten out of hand
  

  meta vibecoding
  

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• Systemd Dynamic Users (2020)
  

  systemd
  

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• Multistack Concatenative Programming Languages
  

  concatenative plt
  

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• Relying on Go
  

  go
  

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• my server is a phone now
  

  android
  

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• Counting the days, revisited
  

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

• Elevators
  

  compsci math performance visualization
  

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• NetBSD 11.0 released
  

  netbsd release
  

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• Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8)
  

  openbsd practices
  

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• June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
  

  browsers web
  

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• Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption
  

  linux security
  

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• wiff
  

  practices vcs vibecoding
  

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• The Wheels We Keep Reinventing
  

  practices
  

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• The State of Chez Scheme in Debian
  

  linux lisp
  

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• what the double-fork?
  

  linux
  

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• Let's make the worst htmx ever
  

  javascript web
  

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• Accepting a messy git history
  

  practices vcs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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