Lobsters: October 2026
During October 2026, 439 different entries appeared on Lobsters across 12 days of checks (583 checks in total). “Docker is weird” ranked highest overall: on the list on 4 of 12 days, best #1, average #9.7. 0 entries stayed on the list every day. 385 entries made their first appearance, led by “Docker is weird”. Trendoday's records for this list start on October 20, 2026.
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Also on the list this month (389)
Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? · Emacs finally folds to my liking · Do At-Proto Users Know This Is Public? · How curl was accidentally Turing-complete for nine months · Gram 3.4.0 released · Wine ported to OpenBSD · Oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 · About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs · CVE-2026-107891: musl libc: multiple integer overflow in regcomp,… · NixOS is making me less afraid · zls 0.17.0 · The Netherlands is building its own Linux OS to break free from… · Unikernels in OCaml · The Future of CSS · The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf] · Incremental Computation Graphs · GOTO Considered Totally Sick (for error handling in C) · “AI Skills” are worthless in 2026 · Partial Order Precedence · Making all divisions slower to fix a bug in 0.000000000000000000542%… · No, npm, “estee” is not a typo of “testem” · C2PA's eMudhra Moment · Mastodon 5.0: A closer look · Twelve years of distributed SQLite · Stalwart v1.0: The Fastest Mail Server on the Planet · We have Traits at Home · Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware affects most servers on planet… · MacOS Extensions pack for the Apple Network Server v1.0 · 1,447 emoji? We'll do it live · Qwenputer: a fully functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside… · Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 4 2.98.0 has been released · This week's "node2shell" Brotli vulnerability (CVE-2026-111497) is… · How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed · Using a lookup-table to correct an approximation · What are you doing this weekend? · writing about pratt parsing so I remember it · My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii · Railway Security Disclosure: Wednesday October 21st · One Hash Bloom Filters · Tell your network to explain itself and then some · Infinite Mac: BeOS · Expose only share links of a private service with caddy · Lobsters NYC Meetup on the 28th of October · The federated code forge · 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me) · Compile-Time Dependent Types · Hoot 0.10.0 released · a neat trick i found for reusing physical memory · What are you doing this weekend? · Announcing DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal” · The case of the 9 bit AES key · A5 v1.0 · Passkeys Attestation Trap · Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog · Jepsen: Orkes Conductor 5.3.2 · SIMD and Go · What are you doing this week? · Do minor curl vulnerabilities in the open · Design the interface for functionality not familiarity · jailbreaking the switch 2 · I built a garbage collector for Rust (2023) · Start Doing Graph Theory · How hard is it to check for whitespace? · Phorge · Objects, attributes, maps, oh my · Reminder: Lobsters NYC Meetup Tomorrow 5:30 at Walker's · Vector Graphics in Lil · In Context · The Future Trait Has A Missing State · A vision for a next-generation timeline · Forging a Microsoft Edge Full Chain with Logic Bugs Only · Billion-query-per-second lookup tables in C++ · A Very Fast IPv4 Parser, in Swift · A stackless floodfill automation (2023) · Don't throw it all away: Caching an immediate-mode UI · When a glibc update accidentally breaks Chromium's audio (2021) · Building NixOS using Nixtamal · Script dependencies with Nix · Our Response To The eMudhra Key Disclosure Incident · Shrinking NixOS Ram footprint and resource requirements to the bare… · Flow Typing, A New Lens on Linearity · Pharo 14 Released · The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was… · Switch lowering in GCC · Understanding Nix flakes · The Many Many Missed Opportunities of Sonic 06 · Memory is slow, Disk is fast · Filian, Fil-C binaries on Debian · The Benchmarking Crisis · The Polyglot's Dilemma: Conformance Testing a Dozen Specs in as Many… · Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A on the Way? · 2026 Ruby on Rails Community Survey Results · SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller · Heavenly delights of hashing numbers under EQUALP · What's wrong with AI? · A whirlwind tour of systemd-nspawn containers (2025) · An Incremental Approach to JIT Construction · Fuzzers vs. AI: Comparing Fuzzilli and BigSleep on JavaScript Engines · Redox Ring Buffers Project Summary · Full Haskell-like Type Class resolution in Java · Building Java ME Apps with Modern Tooling · Protecting against CVE-2026-98432 · Scalable Vector Grief · The Hibernate Origin Story (Outsider Edition) · What are you doing this week? · Firefox security patch tests are now private for at least a week · Extremely brief history of PDP computers · Why do we need ud2 when int 6 is right there? · Finding panics with Call Graph Analyzer · Garmin Revamps and Opens Up Connect Developer API Program · Beginning of the Ende (a community Deno fork) · An open format for writing agent-native software requirements · The Annotated VT100 Firmware (2022) · The Web Can't Afford a JavaScript Runtime Monoculture · From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1 · We should be more ambitious with the software we build · No Source Code? No Problem! What if you have to port a program, but… · Hanami, Why?: Model Citizens · GitLab Critical Patch Release · Clojure/Conj 2026 · Header Accordions: QPACK amplification attacks against HTTP/3 servers · Tactical-Retreat: a freely available, multi-platform QuakeC-based… · Tor VPN Beta: What we've learned building our own VPN for Android… · The Goose Programming Language · Go 1.28's HTTP/2 Parking: Measuring Memory Savings · Node.js — Wednesday, October 21, 2026 Security Releases · The Small Web is Huge · Do web components have a future if nobody is writing them? · Embedding EYG in Erlang programs · Who’s 0xabadbabe and why? (2011) · Defending the patch gap against automated attackers · Pair-coding Lobste.rs feat · Genera for the Initiated: Inside Symbolics Lisp Machines · Making dns_erlang Fast: Binary Tricks for the BEAM · OpenLDK: Bringing the Java World into Common Lisp · Getting Google Cast on my Soundbar · A select should tell you something · Release OpenSSL 4.1.0 · openssl/openssl · Rendering untrusted HTML email, safely(2021) · Reverse-Engineering Instruction Encodings (2001) · XSS in yarr RSS reader · Unauthorized Access to PingCAP Cloud Resources · Nim version 2.4.0 released · What is your opinion on submission quality since the `vibecoding`… · Every Clojure Talk Ever (2018) · Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs · Will Open Firmware Become the Next Big Trend in Electronic Music Gear? · Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020) · How to Make Things, and Why · The 7.3 kernel has been released · Introducing the Accessible Components Library · Rationale for filtering LLM usage links as off-topic · Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 · EDG is open source · The result of the C++26 DIS ballot · Digital minimalism · Smart audio for the smart home (2021) · What the heck is /pkg? · Railway Preliminary Report: Oct 21st Security Incident · Finding a home amidst the wreckage · (VCF Midwest 2026) Building a Living 90s Internet for Vintage… · Marelleo, a story box I built for my kids · Compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI Installs a Credential Stealer… · The next circle of security hell · An Evening with Berferd: In Which a Cracker is Lured, Endured, and… · Improving accessibility with CSS media queries (2025) · The Secret of Fast Programming: Stop Thinking » · The Kluever Maneuver · The passkey is worse · ConcurrentML: Improving on Go's concurrency model · The top ten reasons embedded projects get into trouble (2002) · Simple Sudoku Solver in Assembly · OpenBSD 8.0: released · The Shift of Theseus — Toy Bit Provenance Abstract Domain · Borrow Checking Zero-Cost Cyclic Mutability · Intermediary between public and private members · Keyless Entry: Hacking SwitchBot Smart Locks · Making SIMD Code Scale to Any Vector Width · slughorn — GPU Vector Graphics · An LC-3 Disassembler in Haskell · TypeScript and Haskell: Unions & Singletons (2024) · Akku.scm 1.2.0 released · Distributed data, centralized fixes · Let’s Build a Brain · Web Page Crawler Revealed - tracking down requests from Contabo GmbH · Avoid Public Functions Calling Other Public Functions · Wails v3.0.0 Released · Tangled, hire a front-end accessibility expert · Men in tech #YesAllMen · Syrinx: A censorship-resistant communications platform · ACLs don’t (2009) · Go Empty Interface Explained & The Hidden Heap Allocation · Update on AO3 Downtime, October 30, 2026 | Organization for… · Enlightenment 0.28.0 Release · Announcing the GPU notification group and Linker Working Area · Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update · Speeding up GPU copies by permuting iteration spaces, or, optimising… · CVE-2026-106173: FortiSIEM gRPC Path Traversal to RCE · Emacs finally folds to my liking: kirigami, tree-sitter, hide-show,… · Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved · arm64e pointer authentication: PAC keys, PACIASP, A12 · Shadow: Dummy folders, an obvious overflow, and a ROP chain · Aggro is the Foundation (2022) · Next-Concept Modeling: Fast, Parallel Coarse-to-Fine Text Generation · Big Runtimes Make Efficient Programs · What requirements don't you have? · Gforth 1.0 · Novellas with groff · Less Is More: From 1M Lines of Firmware to 300 of Assembly · Declarative WASM GC Types · Michal Wallace on Narrative Programming: Why Learn J when LLMs Code? · The October inflection point for vibe game development · Scrawl: show an agent the problem · Three configurable prettyprinters (2023) · Foundational Cryptography in SPARK · Coding Agents, Starter Kits and pgledger · Turning IPv6 tunnels into programmable delay lines for pulsing DoS · Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2 · Sumi.css - classless-first CSS framework · VictoriaLogs vs Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, SigNoz and… · Nim vs Rust: Language is a Matter of 'Coherence', Not 'Performance' · Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers · Color Names · A single malformed WAP Push SMS crashes com.android.phone on… · Peel: A free, open source uninstaller and cleaner for macOS · Profiling Org->HTML formal grammar and optimizing it: orgwebalchemy · thebroken Episode 1 (2003) · EnsoJS - native-first microframework for building declarative Web… · Enabling Researchers is a Moral Imperative · Coders’ Rights Project Reverse Engineering FAQ (2017) · Extending concurrent separation logic to the hardware level to… · Effective Type: Part 1 · Listening to Nina Simone in 2036 · Create a Canarytoken. Deploy it somewhere · Superoptimizing an FPU emulator · Azure’s Weakest Link - Five Full Cross-Tenant Compromises · OpenBSD Jumpstart 8.0: Quick Start Guide for New Users · The bridge to agent-scale Git infrastructure · AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts… · There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability · Sign language to text · Cybersecurity Is About to Be the Biggest Problem in Tech · My Terminal Setup in 2026: Ghostty, tmux, and Neovim · An animated explainer of the PHP2Shell vulnerability · MoLE Protocols · leanin: A Tokio-inspired concurrency library for Lean 4, with… · Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan to Claude developer… · It's enough - vibecoding tag crossed from useless to harmful · How abliterated models can get you pwned · The State of Context Engineering · php2shell by Calif Research · awesome-console-services: curated list of services reachable via HTTP · Code.org's Excellent Beginner Programming Courses Gets Lost in the… · MEU - a M3U file editor · Fixing KIO copy to USB stick and network filesystems · Your AI agent fixed the bug, but what else did it change? · Building fine-grained version control for agents with Rust and… · Minimizing TTM for Embedded Applications with GNU Guix · django.tasks exists · Satellite Tracking With Friends · Immutable Styles: CSS without cascading conflicts and specificity wars · 3 part series on testing with quickcheck · Ruby syntax tricks · (PRNG) Party Tricks · Should I learn Dart? · Globally applying overlays onto Nixpkgs · QSYRUPWD, Part 2: Correcting the Rijndael Key Builder · Rust: A unique perspective · A Slight Obsession Over Page Speed · I don’t know who the Web Audio API is designed for · ZeroFS: 9P, NFS, or block devices on top of S3-compatible storage · Ubuntu and Aging Nvidia Graphics Cards: Compositing in 5 Steps · Program synthesis of a spec with optional manual implementation for… · Apache Struts Statement on Equifax Security Breach · Why We're Building Stategraph: Terraform State as a Distributed… · The mathematics of diseases (2001) · eMudhra to Exit global SSL/TLS Certificate Business · Injecting a Chess Engine into Amazon Redshift · The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management · Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss retiring as Django BDFLs · Parallelism And Concurrency Need Different Tools · PureVPN IPv6 leak · Implementing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (Part I) · /l/place: Draw something. Invite your friends · Distributed Consensus: Beating Impossibility with Probability One · How August 2017 RubyGems Vulnerabilities were patched on Heroku · Redmond Themes · The ASUS Gaming Laptop ACPI Firmware Bug: A Deep Technical… · Outside the Scope of Our Support · Sony Pictures releases OpenColorIO under BSD license · Bookmarking Integration · One Token to rule them all - obtaining Global Admin in every Entra… · NGINX Unit · Digging deeper into YouTube's view count discrepancy · Prepare for High Sierra · Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (2007) · mblaze 0.5, a Maildir-focused command line mail client · On Covering Webcams · Is GitHub Actions suitable for running benchmarks? · Random Terrain Generation, A Clojure Walkthrough · Learn Standard ML in Y Minutes · Vue.js communication Part 2: parent-child components | Christian… · Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's ultra-high core count processors · CreateSki - Anyone interested in an industry ski trip? · Hardware Hacks I have known · devenv 1.9: Scaling Nix projects using modules and profiles - devenv · New-user downvoting · Linux, OpenBSD, and Tasklier: A Comparative Complexity Analysis (2002) · The Wheel of Reincarnation · Example of using network emulator (NetEm) on Linux: Script for… · Ki is a lisp with Clojure data structures and semantics · Installing and Using Debian With My Decades-Old Genuine DEC vt510… · A working transistor-scale replica of the classic MOS 6502… · Skyline is a real-time anomaly detection system · Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat… · Full text of "ML for the Working Programmer" now online! · Death to type classes · Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued · IISCV (Lisp-based Version Control System) - image-based · Emacs Calc Tutorials · Implementing Digital Filters in Julia · Making a Master Puppeteer · Lonewolf: a self-hosted XMPP server in Rust with embedded storage · Using atomic transactions in Postgres to power an idempotent API · Adding Name-based hosting To Nginx on OpenBSD with Acme-Client · Introducing Obelisk 0.24.1 · A Taste of Functional Programming in Java 7, Java 8 and C# 4 · The KeY Project · A Dumb Introduction to z3 · DHS orders departments & agencies to remove Kaspersky products over… · Uji - Gentoo of Coding Agents · RealTime Data Compression: Finite State Entropy - A new breed of… · What Goes on When a Game Casts a Shadow: Shadow Mapping · How to implement the Outbox pattern in Go and Postgres · Cuckoo Sandbox Automated Malware Analysis 1.0 Released · Deleting 19k Lines of Dead Compiler Code Without Trusting the LLM · Happy Programmer's Day! · AI: EU Member States approve “digital expropriation” of Europeans… · Lectura.info - A simple RSS reader · simple linear-time sorting algorithm, using a flattened linked-list… · Direct3D team office has a Wall of GPU History · ztmux the pure Rust tmux superset · What Open Source Means to LibreOffice Users · Rupert's Snub Cube and other Math Holes · Tech should work for you and solve your problems – The Reading Room · Guido is giving a talk on PEP 3156 at Linkedin on Jan 23rd · Avoiding Common sync.WaitGroup Mistakes in Go · gh-inbox: clean up GitHub notifications in bulk from the command line · Faster remainders when the divisor is a constant: beating compilers… · Natural Language Processing for the Working Programmer · The 5-year journey to bring restartable sequences to Linux · Introducing Atom-IDE · You Want Technology With Warts · Compile-Time Target CPU Feature Detection in C · Predicting Vehicle Usage with Clojure · Java 25 · Space Nerds In Space - A Multi-player Networked Starship Bridge… · enzyme: Local-first compile step for knowledge bases. Save 350x… · List of open source real-time operating systems · Open Source: Make any Application or Game Borderless-Fullscreen · Zero-Knowledge Proofs in WebAssembly · Git for the US Code · Rechenwerk — a programmer’s calculator for hex, binary and RPN for… · Samsung 870 QVO 4TB SATA SSD-s: how are they doing after 4 years of… · StealMyBitcoin (php2shell CTF) solution writeup · Diminishing returns of static typing · How I Use AI · Parallel, distributed, and decentralized file treewalk with ftw(3)… · Two Welsh organisations reprimanded after cyber-attack exposed… · Test Generation from Bounded, Algebraic Specifications Using Alloy… · noalloc: Tooling and libraries to enforce zero heap allocations in… · A game scripting language that runs speech-to-text 5x faster than… · Associated Types and Haskell (2016) · Protobuf in Python and TypeScript is actually good now · gen - a generics library for Go · The Limits of Fingerprint Blocklists: A Reproducible Java… · My CSS Wishlist · Mojo v1.2.0 · A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up For a Lot of Y-Intercept · How Bezo's photos might've been exposed · Claude Can (Sometimes) Prove It · Reviewing vs Doing · How to Run Turing-Complete Malware in PyTorch's Backward Pass · uji · A small, composable coding agent · "You Already Don't Understand Your Code": What "ten sorts in ten… · Agentic Monitoring · Airflow AI Provider 1.0: Agents, Sandboxes, Human Approval and… · DeepSeek open sources the inference engine for their models · Why I’m no longer updating this repository
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