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

• wsl9x: Windows 9x subsystem for Linux
  

  assembly linux retrocomputing windows
  

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• AI as a Fascist Artifact
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Highlights from Git 2.54
  

  release vcs
  

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• Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not—it’s all very confusing
  

  vibecoding
  

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• What are your favorite Emacs packages?
  

  ask emacs
  

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• I don't want your PRs anymore
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The Edge of Safe Rust
  

  plt rust
  

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• Switching from uv to PDM
  

  python
  

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• Performance of the Wren programming language
  

  plt
  

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• Emacs is my browser
  

  emacs
  

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• Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta
  

  javascript release
  

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• Features everyone should steal from npmx
  

  javascript
  

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

• Claude Desktop installs undocumented browser extensions for Chrome and other browsers
  

  privacy vibecoding
  

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• Forgejo v15.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• Introducing Glyph Protocol for Terminals
  

  unix
  

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• Theseus, a static Windows emulator
  

  retrocomputing windows
  

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• Vercel April 2026 security incident
  

  security web
  

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• Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys
  

  cryptography
  

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• This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore
  

  linux
  

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• postmarketOS Conference
  

  event linux mobile
  

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• SI Units for Request Rate (2024)
  

  programming satire
  

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• WebUSB extension for Firefox
  

  browsers web
  

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• High-performance 2D graphics rendering on the CPU using sparse strips
  

  pdf graphics performance rust
  

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• 418 I'm a teapot
  

  satire web
  

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

• The age of snarky UI
  

  design rant
  

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• IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
  

  networking
  

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• AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
  

  practices
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.95.0
  

  release rust
  

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• Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared
  

  windows
  

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• I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Let Sleeping CPUs Lie — S0ix
  

  freebsd hardware
  

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• Modern Common Lisp with FSet
  

  book lisp
  

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• Stop using JWTs
  

  security
  

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• Xata: Open source Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero
  

  databases
  

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• Mastodon: Don't use "mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names
  

  distributed
  

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• Too much Discussion of the XOR swap trick
  

  programming
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
  

  networking
  

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• The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026
  

  linux mac windows
  

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• A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Someone at BrowserStack is Leaking Users' Email Address
  

  privacy
  

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• The Seed Beneath the Snow
  

  practices
  

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• Using Discord on Plan 9
  

  osdev
  

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• Someone good at CSS help, my website design is dying
  

  css
  

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• Git’s Magic Files
  

  vcs
  

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• The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• OpenSSH begins warning for non-PQC key exchanges
  

  networking security
  

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• I Tried Vibing an RSS Reader and My Dreams Did Not Come True
  

  mac vibecoding web
  

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• What text editor (cli or gui) are you using for writing non-code?
  

  ask practices
  

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