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

• The Slurptop: A home-built luggable that runs on power tool batteries
  

  art hardware
  

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• Balloting has completed for C++26. Unfortunately it was Disapproved
  

  c++
  

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• Vim Classic
  

  editors vim
  

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• POSIX wordexp(3) is dangerous
  

  c security
  

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• Partial Order Precedence
  

  zig
  

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• How to run a city builder on 16 MHz
  

  programming
  

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• Twelve years of distributed SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• An Incremental Approach to JIT Construction
  

  pdf compilers education
  

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• No Source Code? No Problem! What if you have to port a program, but all you have is a binary? (2003)
  

  games reversing
  

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• MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025)
  

  systemd
  

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• This week's "node2shell" Brotli vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497) is exploitable in Python, other consumers of Brotli
  

  security web
  

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

• Docker is weird
  

  programming
  

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• Please don't mess with links
  

  web
  

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• We have Traits at Home
  

  zig
  

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• UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does
  

  distributed python
  

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• The glorious @xkcdRandom Zig builtin
  

  compilers satire zig
  

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• Expose only share links of a private service with caddy
  

  devops security
  

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• How close can pure FP get to C?
  

  performance programming
  

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• Debunking "Faster than Rust": Malicious Benchmarks in Tov
  

  performance
  

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• Software is slow because of bad design, not slow languages
  

  performance
  

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• a hacky fucked up way to portably access errno from outside of c
  

  c
  

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• Objects, attributes, maps, oh my
  

  compilers
  

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• Tell your network to explain itself and then some
  

  networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release
  

  php security
  

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• Firefox Local Mode
  

  browsers
  

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• Unikernels in OCaml
  

  ml osdev
  

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• Do minor curl vulnerabilities in the open
  

  security
  

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• The Future of CSS
  

  css
  

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• zls 0.17.0
  

  zig
  

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• Mastodon 5.0: A closer look
  

  design release
  

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• Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Vector Graphics in Lil
  

  apl graphics
  

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• Lobsters NYC Meetup on the 28th of October
  

  event
  

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• Why do we need ud2 when int 6 is right there?
  

  assembly
  

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• Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog
  

  graphics hardware
  

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

• The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Getting Canceled
  

  video zig
  

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• Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD
  

  openbsd security
  

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• We're sunsetting Codeberg Pages v2
  

  web
  

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• Introducing GNOME OS Preview
  

  linux release
  

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• Interactive refactoring in gopls
  

  editors go
  

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• Intuitive concurrent programming in any language
  

  programming
  

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• Do you let LLMs write both your tests and your code?
  

  ask vibecoding
  

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• Mull: note-taking with a language server / vscode extension
  

  editors
  

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• Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released
  

  linux release
  

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• It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360
  

  hardware reversing
  

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• There's never been a better time to go into math
  

  video math
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Sunsetting decomp.dev
  

  games reversing vibecoding
  

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• Haxy on Haxy
  

  practices vcs zig
  

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• JPEG XL vs AVIF for web use-cases
  

  compsci web
  

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• Awesome Gaming on Linux Without Cheating
  

  games linux security
  

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• The Costa GUI
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Better HTTP/1 connection reuse
  

  go
  

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• GitLab warns of max severity code execution vulnerability
  

  security vcs
  

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• My C23 Conventions
  

  c
  

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• Remote Attestation Should Not Be Tolerated
  

  culture security
  

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• We found a Tencent agent fleet
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• My Game's Procedural Dialogue System
  

  video games
  

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• End-to-end encrypted relays for OCapN
  

  distributed
  

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