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Lobsters: week 45, 2026

During week 45 of 2026 (Nov 2 – Nov 8), 240 different entries appeared on Lobsters across 7 days of checks (316 checks in total). “So my ISP was hijacking my DNS” ranked highest overall: on the list on 4 of 7 days, best #1, average #6.5. 0 entries stayed on the list every day. 10 of the top 10 were not in the previous week's top 10. 167 entries made their first appearance, led by “So my ISP was hijacking my DNS”. This week is still in progress; the list updates until it closes.

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    So my ISP was hijacking my DNS↗
    best #1 · avg #6.5new
    4/7days
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    sshhole↗
    best #1 · avg #6.1new
    3/7days
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    3/7days
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    Libghostty 1.0↗
    best #1 · avg #3.4new
    3/7days
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    Software Line Specialist↗
    best #2 · avg #8.1new
    3/7days
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    3/7days
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    A Decade of Kill Bugs↗
    best #1 · avg #6.7new
    3/7days
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    The Port That Does Not Exist↗
    best #2 · avg #7.5new
    3/7days
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    Declarative Dragging↗
    best #2 · avg #8.6new
    3/7days
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    Death comes for XSLT↗
    best #1 · avg #7.2new
    3/7days
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    2/7days
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    Introducing Adaptive Dark Mode↗
    best #3 · avg #12.6new
    3/7days
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    Stop Hardcoding Your Timeouts↗
    best #3 · avg #8.7new
    3/7days
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    C++26 Disapproved↗
    best #2 · avg #11.0new
    3/7days
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    A Look at Datastar↗
    best #5 · avg #11.5new
    3/7days
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    2/7days
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    Two Dimensional Version Control↗
    best #7 · avg #11.1new
    2/7days
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    My favourite laptop↗
    best #4 · avg #11.1new
    3/7days
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    Zig 0.17.1 Released↗
    best #5 · avg #11.9new
    2/7days
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    Clojure Distilled↗
    best #2 · avg #11.8new
    2/7days
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    Announcing NetBSD 11.1↗
    best #5 · avg #12.4new
    3/7days
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    Pratt parsing is a black box↗
    best #2 · avg #11.4
    2/7days
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    Would you believe it's jank?↗
    best #6 · avg #12.9new
    3/7days
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    X-87 - DOS 256 bytes↗
    best #4 · avg #10.9new
    2/7days
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    What are you doing this week?↗
    best #2 · avg #10.3new
    2/7days

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