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

• Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• Native all the way, until you need text
  

  mac swift
  

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• The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means
  

  cryptography security
  

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• New design for the FreeBSD website
  

  design freebsd
  

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• Go European — Discover European products and services
  

  culture privacy
  

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• Coding on Paper
  

  hardware
  

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• Recent Kernel exploits, attack surface reduction, example IPSEC
  

  linux networking security
  

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• Subscription Bombing: Email under Attack
  

  email
  

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• Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux
  

  linux vibecoding
  

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• Don't answer the first question
  

  practices
  

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• Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp
  

  lisp
  

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• How to Write to SSDs
  

  pdf databases
  

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

• Ascetic Computing
  

  practices
  

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• Git Is Not Fine
  

  vcs
  

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• Announcing the Zulip Foundation
  

  programming
  

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• 5× faster fast_blur in image-rs
  

  math programming rust
  

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• Open Source Resistance
  

  practices
  

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• My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• The CTF scene is dead
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• A History of IDEs at Google
  

  editors programming
  

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• Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
  

  web windows
  

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• why use F# for scripting and automation?
  

  dotnet ml
  

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• A few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS
  

  css
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• taken
  

  privacy vibecoding web
  

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• Redis and the Cost of Ambition
  

  databases
  

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• Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
  

  hardware law
  

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• Zig vs Rust in 2026
  

  rust vibecoding zig
  

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• Local AI Needs to be the Norm
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory
  

  video games graphics historical
  

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• Learning Software Architecture
  

  practices programming
  

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• iwp9 2026
  

  satire
  

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• The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics
  

  math
  

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• Popular Go library fsnotify raises supply chain alarms after maintainer access changes
  

  go security
  

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• Fighting Hyrum's Law in LLVM
  

  compilers practices
  

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• Programmable Whitelist-based Configs: Embedding Rye in Go
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on May 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Steering Zig Fmt
  

  zig
  

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• On forking the Web
  

  web
  

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• I learned something about GPUs today
  

  debugging graphics
  

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• I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs
  

  web
  

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• NixOS and Secrets
  

  nix
  

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• What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage
  

  browsers vibecoding
  

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• jank now has its own custom IR
  

  c++ clojure lisp
  

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• WebRTC is the Problem
  

  networking
  

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• The `Sync` bound nobody asked for
  

  rust
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Wii IP6 webserver
  

  netbsd web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on April 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban
  

  vibecoding zig
  

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• I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine
  

  hardware rust
  

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• Zed is 1.0
  

  editors rust
  

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• Bugs Rust Won't Catch
  

  rust
  

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• Why I Still Reach for Lisp (& Scheme) Instead of Haskell
  

  haskell lisp programming
  

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• Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can’t
  

  mac netbsd
  

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• The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS
  

  web
  

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• FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies
  

  networking
  

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• KDE’s 30th anniversary
  

  linux release
  

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• Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distributions
  

  linux security
  

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• Illegal vs Unwanted States
  

  formalmethods
  

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• Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig
  

  haskell zig
  

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