The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess"
  

  practices
  

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• OxiSH: SSH server written in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Curl Performance
  

  performance
  

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• A preview of Roc 0.1.0
  

  video compsci
  

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• The Art of CHIP-8
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• SQLite: How it works, by Richard Hipp (2024)
  

  video databases
  

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• A long division story
  

  compsci math
  

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• RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better
  

  assembly compilers rant
  

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• SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public git repositories
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• Thunderbird’s Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign
  

  design email
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Write for people
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
  

  nix
  

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• They don’t make ’em like Sublime Text anymore
  

  editors rant
  

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• some software talks i like
  

  programming
  

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• Assembly Hall of Shame: Racing to the bottom of CPU performance
  

  hardware
  

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• PS3 emulation is fast on ARM now
  

  video assembly performance
  

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• Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven
  

  practices python science
  

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• From constraint models to playable puzzle games
  

  programming
  

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• I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11
  

  historical retrocomputing
  

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• Amiga August 2026 Update
  

  historical osdev
  

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• ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’
  

  video historical
  

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• AI & The University
  

  video education vibecoding
  

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• "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Twenty Years of Pandoc
  

  haskell historical
  

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• Soppo - Go, with the features it's missing
  

  go
  

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• The Lua community needs to learn to move on
  

  lua
  

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• Security is Hard, Y’all
  

  security
  

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• Reliability Lessons From SQLite
  

  video practices
  

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• The Future of GNOME Boxes
  

  virtualization
  

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• Going Backward
  

  go
  

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• Enabling the next iteration of the borrow checker on nightly
  

  rust
  

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• BorrowSanitizer
  

  rust
  

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• Wireguard For Plan 9
  

  osdev release
  

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• FFmpeg 9.0
  

  graphics release
  

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• SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• help wanted
  

  rant satire vibecoding
  

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• Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation)
  

  culture
  

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• Don't be a meat proxy
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Kill the Cookie Banner
  

  law privacy
  

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• 9front "THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FUN" Released
  

  art release
  

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• Faster floating point math with Rust’s new API
  

  performance rust
  

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• Your JSON Is Lying to You
  

  javascript
  

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• I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence
  

  performance vibecoding
  

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• Getting Started with Google Wave (2010)
  

  video design
  

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• Rust Project Goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
  

  rust
  

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• How fast is C++26’s std::hive?
  

  c++
  

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• Controlling Your Environment Makes You Happy (2000)
  

  practices
  

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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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