The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Yes, no AI is now a feature
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• What makes Lisp difficult to read?
  

  plt
  

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• Leaving them behind
  

  vibecoding
  

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• When did Google get so weird?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker
  

  windows
  

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• Hijacking the PS5's RTMP Stream
  

  networking
  

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• What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?
  

  a11y design vibecoding
  

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• Expert asterisks
  

  culture practices
  

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• Fool's Expertise
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Rickrolling with a Pharmacy cross
  

  programming
  

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• Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
  

  hardware
  

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• Dropping Swift entirely from our Bevy iOS crates
  

  release rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
  

  android
  

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• The Story of Mel
  

  assembly historical
  

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• Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
  

  design
  

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• SAML: A fractal of bad design
  

  rant security
  

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• I want my mesh networks to be signed, not encrypted
  

  cryptography networking
  

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• I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB
  

  vibecoding
  

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• F-Droid 2.0
  

  android
  

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• Do not let your type system reason about aliasing in your programming language
  

  plt
  

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• Clankers Made Me Build a Second Brain
  

  vibecoding
  

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• SourceHut account takeover via build logs (XSS in ansi2html.py)
  

  security
  

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• Pick OS is a Living Fossil of Computer History
  

  databases historical osdev
  

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• A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
  

  windows
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on September 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It Breaks a Village: Bevy's 6th Birthday
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft
  

  rust
  

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• A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)
  

  security web
  

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• A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
  

  plt
  

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• Review a pull request by booting it
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• Xteink X4 Pro review
  

  hardware
  

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• The terrible menu bar in the Windows 11 Notepad
  

  rant windows
  

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• Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels
  

  rust
  

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• Analysing 2048 on a 3×3 board
  

  games
  

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• What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
  

  historical windows
  

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• Announcing the first Guix-Science release
  

  nix science
  

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• Forgejo 16.0.4 has a critical security bug fix (RCE - Remote Code Execution)
  

  security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation
  

  compilers performance zig
  

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• Framework 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
  

  hardware
  

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• Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools With Tcl/Tk
  

  graphics
  

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• Setup a Simple, Self-Hosted Web Server with OpenBSD
  

  openbsd web
  

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• Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly
  

  browsers
  

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• Finding bugs in Raft implementations
  

  distributed testing
  

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• Quick & Easy Parser Combinators
  

  programming
  

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• I Designed A Custom PCB To Avoid Pressing A Button Three Times
  

  c hardware reversing
  

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• Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1
  

  historical windows
  

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• Seriously, what is the large code-model even for?
  

  assembly compilers
  

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• Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s fleet management platform to gain control over all users and vehicles
  

  security
  

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• What even are microservices?
  

  distributed philosophy
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on July 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Chrome registers a global shortcut for Gemini popup window
  

  browsers mac windows
  

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• A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
  

  programming
  

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• Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap
  

  dotnet go performance
  

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• stinkpot: sqlite-backed shell history
  

  show go
  

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• Zig by Example
  

  zig
  

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• Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
  

  android
  

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• We Are Not Special (2021)
  

  practices
  

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• Your harddrive is probably full
  

  culture performance practices
  

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• Interview with a Maintainer
  

  satire
  

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• git rebase -i is not that scary
  

  vcs
  

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• Systems and Delays (2026)
  

  math
  

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• the perils of parsing type inference declarations in c
  

  c
  

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