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

• Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure
  

  design historical
  

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• Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
  

  browsers web
  

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• Hoot 0.9.0 released
  

  lisp release wasm
  

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• Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7
  

  windows
  

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• Fragnesia: New Linux Privilege Escalation Exploit
  

  linux security
  

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• YellowKey Bitlocker Bypass Vulnerability
  

  security windows
  

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• 5 Years and $5M Later: Inventing a New Programming Language for Web Development Was a Mistake
  

  plt web
  

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• Lua as a practical "soft-bedrock" language
  

  lua practices
  

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• Achieving NGINX Remote Code Execution via an 18-Year-Old Vulnerability
  

  security
  

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• "This is written by an LLM" comments should be flagged as off-topic
  

  meta
  

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• httpx2 - Fork by Pydantic
  

  python
  

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

• NetHack 5.0.0
  

  games release
  

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• Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community
  

  programming
  

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• The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
  

  a11y
  

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• A GitHub for maintainers
  

  vcs
  

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• Fake Notepad++ for Mac
  

  editors mac web
  

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• Unsigned sizes: a five year mistake
  

  c plt
  

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• pgBackRest is dead. Now what?
  

  databases
  

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• My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS
  

  linux systemd
  

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• Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Servers with Personality
  

  hardware networking
  

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• This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code
  

  assembly wasm
  

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• GIT - the stupid content tracker
  

  vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Niri v26.04
  

  linux release rust
  

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• From Milliseconds to 26 Nanoseconds: How a $20 eBay SFP Module Beat My Entire NTP Setup
  

  hardware
  

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• Wasm is not quite a stack machine
  

  plt wasm
  

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• Email is crazy
  

  email networking security
  

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• HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle
  

  freebsd vcs
  

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• "Why not just use Lean?"
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (Bill Joy, 2000)
  

  philosophy
  

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• (Cryptographic) Registries Considered Harmful (2020)
  

  cryptography
  

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• httpxyz one month in
  

  python
  

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• The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon
  

  games performance programming
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• HTML written only using the C preprocessor
  

  c
  

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

• Clojure: The Documentary
  

  video clojure
  

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• HTTP desync in Discord's media proxy: Spying on a whole platform
  

  security
  

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• The Claude Coding Vibes Are Getting Worse
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Okay, what actually uses Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• tangled newsletter 01 — hello
  

  release
  

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• We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis
  

  cryptography science
  

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• Folk Computer
  

  art
  

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• Compiling to Java as a target language
  

  compilers java lisp
  

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• Many-Step Sequences in Go
  

  go
  

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• KDE Gear 26.04
  

  linux release
  

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• A time travel debugger for WebAssembly
  

  rust wasm
  

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

• SQLite 3.53.0
  

  databases release
  

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• I Just Want Simple S3
  

  osdev scaling
  

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• A bet on whether ML-KEM-768 or X25519 will break first
  

  cryptography
  

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• 20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job
  

  freebsd
  

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• Advanced Mac Substitute
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• The difficulty of making sure your website is broken
  

  web
  

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• In defense of GitHub's poor uptime
  

  culture devops
  

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• Windows Defender is being used to hack Windows
  

  security windows
  

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• The acyclic e-graph: Cranelift's mid-end optimizer
  

  compilers
  

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• Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too)
  

  emacs vcs
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• watgo - a WebAssembly Toolkit for Go
  

  go wasm
  

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