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
  

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• 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
  

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

• Don't Roll Your Own …
  

  rant web
  

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• Jira is Turing-Complete
  

  compsci
  

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• Planescape: Torment, Part 1: From the Tabletop
  

  games historical
  

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• The mysterious XF86AudioPlay issue
  

  linux
  

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• This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Wayland compositor implemented as a mod in Minecraft
  

  graphics linux
  

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• A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto
  

  cryptography formalmethods
  

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• Hershey is a textual vector font format
  

  art graphics
  

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• mvm - a fast virtual machine for Go
  

  go
  

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• CVE-2026-46529: 10-year-old RCE in Linux PDF Viewer (XReader/Evince/Atril)
  

  linux security
  

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• The Maintainer's Dilemma
  

  vibecoding
  

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• On the <dl>
  

  a11y web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
  

  web
  

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• Chromium publishes fixed exploit 4 years later, turns out it's actually unfixed
  

  browsers security
  

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• Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist?
  

  c historical
  

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• Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Flipper One — we need your help
  

  hardware
  

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• An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
  

  math vibecoding
  

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• The Mislabeled Bricks of Utopia
  

  philosophy
  

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• [RFC] LLVM Foundation statement in favor of open access to standards documents
  

  c c++ compilers
  

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• Internships for early university / no former employment
  

  ask job
  

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• XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None
  

  security
  

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• Notes on I2C
  

  hardware
  

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• the may 2026 fedi software vulnerability
  

  security
  

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

• Pokemon Gen2 compression myth
  

  games historical performance
  

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• GitHub Source Code Breach - TeamPCP Claims Access to Internal Source Code
  

  security
  

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• pgBackRest will continue
  

  databases
  

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• Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years
  

  programming ruby
  

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• I am not a Software Engineer
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly (2024)
  

  api
  

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• Saying goodbye to asm.js
  

  browsers javascript
  

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• Everything in C is undefined behavior
  

  c
  

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• Erasing Existentials
  

  rust
  

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• Software's Centaur Era
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Super Tiny Compiler, but in Ada
  

  plt programming
  

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• Golfing Zig ELF Binaries (2025)
  

  programming unix zig
  

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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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