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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior
  

  c++
  

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• First CHERIoT Silicon
  

  hardware
  

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• What side projects have you enjoyed the most?
  

  ask programming
  

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• deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
  

  hardware
  

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• The AI Aesthetic
  

  design vibecoding
  

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• Some notes about Anthropic’s new results
  

  cryptography vibecoding
  

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• basebrowserproject
  

  browsers
  

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• Setting timers in simple games (feat. the frame rule)
  

  games
  

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• Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
  

  vcs
  

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• GNU Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build your Hyperverse
  

  emacs
  

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• PostgreSQL MVCC: tradeoffs compared to other engines
  

  databases
  

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• Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs
  

  linux rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
  

  culture ruby
  

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• State of multi-player Wayland
  

  linux
  

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• AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The mean means nothing
  

  performance
  

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• User Interfaces of the Demo Scene
  

  art design
  

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• Writing Toy Software Is A Joy (2025)
  

  programming
  

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• Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification
  

  compilers formalmethods ml plt
  

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• Manganin: tools matter
  

  vcs zig
  

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• Overengineered calculator: Zig + QBE
  

  compilers zig
  

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• A field day for Gleam’s language server | Gleam v.1.18.0 release
  

  gleam release
  

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• Dependency Cultures - Richard Feldman (Software Should Work Conf 2026)
  

  video practices programming
  

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• Building (systems) software with Nix
  

  nix osdev
  

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