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

• And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
  

  philosophy privacy security
  

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• An Introduction to Canvas in GNU Emacs
  

  emacs graphics
  

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• Hister - A private, full content search index that you control
  

  browsers web
  

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• A 2026 Survey of Rust GUI Libraries
  

  rust
  

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• Linus Torvalds uses AI to debug an Intel GPU driver bug
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Amazon kept shutting down my tablet, so I spent $266 on four AI models to own it
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
  

  hardware rust
  

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• Stop Making TUIs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Are there any decent programs for pdf viewing and editing for Linux that replace Adobe Acrobat?
  

  ask linux programming
  

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• Programming Language Semantics and Memory Safety
  

  plt
  

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• My favorite Computer Science books, and why
  

  programming
  

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• It's OK. Do Your Thing
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on August 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You should never be angry at work
  

  practices
  

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• The cool things of Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)
  

  distributed
  

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• Music theory for programmers
  

  art math
  

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• Turning My CASIO F-91W Into a Contactless Payment Device
  

  hardware
  

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• Compile-Time Improvements in LLVM 23
  

  compilers
  

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• Small, native web tricks worth remembering
  

  web
  

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• NetBSD and my life (2005)
  

  netbsd
  

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• rust-glancer: An alternative LSP for Rust with focus on low memory usage
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• Unfortunately you sometimes need to do the thing
  

  philosophy programming rust
  

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• Vibe coding personal apps in mid-2026
  

  vibecoding
  

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• There continue to be reasons for software to be slow
  

  performance vibecoding
  

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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 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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