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

• How a joke domain purchase turned into geopolitical warfare
  

  security
  

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• Supply chain attack on arrayref
  

  rust security
  

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• Bun 1.4
  

  javascript vibecoding
  

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• What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Ploopy A+ (external trackball)
  

  hardware
  

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• Reclaim the terminal
  

  rust unix
  

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• AliExpress keeps multipoint Bluetooth headphones active with WebAudio fingerprinting
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Why compiling Rust to WebAssembly is slow
  

  rust wasm
  

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• Sing-song: a speakable encoding for long numbers and keys
  

  programming
  

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• Solo: a .so loader for static Linux binaries
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped—Everyone Is Wrong
  

  assembly plt
  

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• Things I want in a modern relational query language
  

  databases plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• HTML Can Do That
  

  web
  

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• Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Mastodon 5.0: Laying the foundation
  

  design web
  

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• Kakoune code editor
  

  editors
  

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• Plain Text Accounting is Pretty Cool
  

  finance
  

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• Go 1.27 is released
  

  go release
  

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• Why I still hand write my commit messages
  

  practices vcs vibecoding
  

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• Introducing Microlighter
  

  javascript
  

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• Odin's New Inline Assembly Templates
  

  assembly plt programming
  

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• a filename when none exists
  

  programming
  

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• SQLite for Everything
  

  databases
  

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• Designing Icons & Graphics For the Original Mac
  

  video mac
  

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

• How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
  

  ios
  

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• Rethinking Database Programming
  

  databases elm plt
  

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• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
  

  ai art
  

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• How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode)
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
  

  art
  

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• Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
  

  games historical reversing
  

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• Mojo is now open source
  

  plt
  

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• What software do you use daily in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• AI;DR (AI; Didn’t Read)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• CSS: the bomb inside your inbox
  

  security
  

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• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Fixing a bricked AMD 7040 series Framework 13” laptop with $20 tools
  

  hardware
  

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

• Does it make sense to switch to a Github Alternative ?
  

  ask programming
  

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• GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement
  

  vcs
  

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• A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
  

  databases
  

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• When the Down Arrow is not an Upside-Down Up Arrow (2022)
  

  web
  

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• Passphrase-less reboots using kexec under NixOS
  

  linux nix security
  

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• People of ACM - Russ Cox
  

  go person
  

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• AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• You can just choose how many bugs you want now
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Writing a Fast Compiler
  

  compilers
  

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• Human Interface Guidelines from various platforms
  

  a11y design graphics
  

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• Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pony's Arena Allocator
  

  programming
  

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

• I thought I was building a C replacement. I was wrong
  

  c programming
  

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• Every Fucking Website
  

  satire vibecoding web
  

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• A Third World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"
  

  a11y culture hardware
  

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• Protecting the Rust standard library from accidental breakage
  

  rust
  

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• A Tour of Magit's Status Interface
  

  emacs vcs
  

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• Recap: Software Should Work 2026
  

  event programming
  

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• Zig Day Seattle, WA #3
  

  event zig
  

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• nixpkgs-multiverse: fast mode
  

  nix
  

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• What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI
  

  python
  

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• A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week
  

  assembly c++ math performance
  

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• How 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
  

  games networking programming
  

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• Flirt: GitHub and Mailing List backends
  

  vcs
  

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