The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Native all the way, until you need text
  

  mac swift
  

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• The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means
  

  cryptography security
  

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• New design for the FreeBSD website
  

  design freebsd
  

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• Go European — Discover European products and services
  

  culture privacy
  

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• Coding on Paper
  

  hardware
  

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• Recent Kernel exploits, attack surface reduction, example IPSEC
  

  linux networking security
  

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• Subscription Bombing: Email under Attack
  

  email
  

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• Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Don't answer the first question
  

  practices
  

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• Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• How to Write to SSDs
  

  pdf databases
  

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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 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• taken
  

  privacy vibecoding web
  

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• Redis and the Cost of Ambition
  

  databases
  

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• Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
  

  hardware law
  

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• Zig vs Rust in 2026
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Local AI Needs to be the Norm
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory
  

  video games graphics historical
  

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• Learning Software Architecture
  

  practices programming
  

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• iwp9 2026
  

  satire
  

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• The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics
  

  math
  

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• Popular Go library fsnotify raises supply chain alarms after maintainer access changes
  

  go security
  

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• Fighting Hyrum's Law in LLVM
  

  compilers practices
  

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• Programmable Whitelist-based Configs: Embedding Rye in Go
  

  programming
  

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

• Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• let-go: Almost Clojure written in Go
  

  clojure go lisp vibecoding
  

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• the 90 day disclosure policy is dead
  

  security
  

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• Ratty: A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics
  

  show graphics rust vibecoding
  

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• Fully Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Childhood Computing
  

  culture person
  

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• Robot Dogs Are a Security Nightmare
  

  video security
  

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• Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot
  

  emacs
  

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• Gram 2.0.0 released
  

  editors release
  

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• The anti-minimalist backlash is the bigger story behind Oxygen’s revival
  

  design
  

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• My pastebin clone Vivipara and language musings
  

  programming web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Debian must ship reproducible packages
  

  linux
  

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• Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
  

  performance rust
  

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• Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days
  

  hardware security
  

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• So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? (2023)
  

  programming
  

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• Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off
  

  practices
  

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• The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
  

  culture rant
  

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• Fixing QuickLook (2023)
  

  mac reversing
  

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• The React2Shell Story and What Happened Next.js
  

  security
  

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• FreeBSD: Local privilege escalation via execve()
  

  freebsd security
  

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• wayland.fyi minimalist wayland special interest group
  

  linux
  

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• AI is Breaking Two Vulnerability Cultures
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• Point-Free Logic Programming
  

  logiclangs
  

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