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

• Researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker
  

  programming security windows
  

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• The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden
  

  privacy
  

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• Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software
  

  performance
  

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• Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
  

  mac unix
  

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• A 16-byte x86 demo: Matrix rain with sound
  

  graphics performance retrocomputing
  

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• Reviewing so called Pull Requests at $dayjob
  

  practices vcs
  

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• The occasional `ECONNRESET`
  

  linux networking
  

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• May I recommend eww for Emacs’s innovative UI?
  

  emacs
  

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• De‐bloating Javascript
  

  java lisp wasm
  

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• Find bugs in YOUR code using OpenCode, Llama.cpp and Qwen3.6
  

  debugging vibecoding
  

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• Reverse engineering Android malware with Claude Code
  

  android reversing vibecoding
  

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• Rust async and the ARM generic timer
  

  hardware rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ascetic Computing
  

  practices
  

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• Git Is Not Fine
  

  vcs
  

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• Announcing the Zulip Foundation
  

  programming
  

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• 5× faster fast_blur in image-rs
  

  math programming rust
  

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• Open Source Resistance
  

  practices
  

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• My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• The CTF scene is dead
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• A History of IDEs at Google
  

  editors programming
  

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• Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
  

  web windows
  

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• why use F# for scripting and automation?
  

  dotnet ml
  

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• A few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS
  

  css
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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

• Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development
  

  linux
  

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• what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered
  

  compsci performance
  

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• Erlang/OTP 29.0 Release
  

  erlang
  

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• The Most Emacs Bzr Saga
  

  emacs historical vcs
  

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• What is BusyBox?
  

  linux
  

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• Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain
  

  web
  

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• MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop For The Rest Of Us
  

  hardware mac
  

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• The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• An update on East River Source Control availability
  

  vcs
  

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• A detailed introduction to Kakoune for the aspiring power user
  

  editors
  

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• Killing a `Cow` made my JSON formatter 42% faster
  

  performance rust
  

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• Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic
  

  android security
  

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

• cursed_browser: A web browser with no rendering engine — the VLM reads the HTML and hallucinates the page
  

  browsers satire vibecoding
  

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• Programming Still Sucks
  

  culture practices
  

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• Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem
  

  ai
  

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• Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE
  

  linux security
  

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• jj v0.41.0 is out
  

  release vcs
  

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• AI Slop is Killing Online Communities
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A PHP license change is imminent
  

  law php
  

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• Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview
  

  browsers security vibecoding
  

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• Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC
  

  video emacs lisp
  

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• Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)
  

  plt
  

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• The Original Super Mario 64 Is Now Playable On GBA
  

  games
  

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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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