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Lobste.rs

@lobste_rs

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1,819subscribers

+52 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.

Register entry

Telegram ID-1001219200087
TypeChannel
Username@lobste_rs
Created15 December 2018measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (TGDataset)
First recorded6 August 2026
Last confirmed live17 September 2026
Measurements held13
Confirmed unchanged1 time, most recently 17 September 2026
On Telegramt.me/lobste_rs

Topic

Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 16 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 99% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Growth

1,7671,8191,7936 August 2026 — 1,767 subscribers6 August 2026 — 1,768 subscribers10 August 2026 — 1,771 subscribers13 August 2026 — 1,779 subscribers16 August 2026 — 1,784 subscribers19 August 2026 — 1,788 subscribers23 August 2026 — 1,791 subscribers26 August 2026 — 1,794 subscribers29 August 2026 — 1,791 subscribers1 September 2026 — 1,795 subscribers10 September 2026 — 1,806 subscribers14 September 2026 — 1,813 subscribers17 September 2026 — 1,819 subscribers6 August 202617 September 2026
13 measurements spanning 42 days, net +52. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 1,759–1,827 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)SubscribersChange
17 Sept 2026, 17:561,819+6
14 Sept 2026, 02:201,813+7
10 Sept 2026, 14:421,806+11
1 Sept 2026, 14:351,795+4
29 Aug 2026, 16:181,791-3
26 Aug 2026, 05:581,794+3
23 Aug 2026, 06:131,791+3
19 Aug 2026, 13:141,788+4
16 Aug 2026, 20:161,784+5
13 Aug 2026, 00:331,779+8
10 Aug 2026, 06:311,771+3
6 Aug 2026, 21:011,768+1
6 Aug 2026, 18:021,767first reading

Engagement

40 posts held, back to 6 August 2026the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 2 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 40 posts for this entry, the most recent from 7 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

Recent posts

7 Aug 2026, 15:19 UTC92 viewsread 7 August 2026

A new model for source control by Alcides Fonseca Comments via wiki.alcidesfonseca.com by alcides

7 Aug 2026, 14:19 UTC114 viewsread 7 August 2026

How a device finds encrypted DNS by itself Comments via blog.dundns.eu by amir

7 Aug 2026, 13:19 UTC130 viewsread 7 August 2026

John Henry in the age of AI Comments via davepedu.com by dpedu

7 Aug 2026, 13:19 UTC126 viewsread 7 August 2026

Informing HTTP Extension Design with Data Comments via mnot.net via Exagone313

7 Aug 2026, 11:19 UTC138 viewsread 7 August 2026

From constraint models to playable puzzle games Comments via zayenz.se by mzl

7 Aug 2026, 11:19 UTC138 viewsread 7 August 2026

Notes Compound, Blogs Compile: When I Update a Note vs. Publish a Post Comments via ssp.sh by sspaeti

7 Aug 2026, 10:19 UTC140 viewsread 7 August 2026

What are you doing this weekend? Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback.Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too! via by caius

7 Aug 2026, 09:19 UTC153 viewsread 7 August 2026

Some ways to navigate through 'git blame' over time in GNU Emacs Comments via utcc.utoronto.ca via mattofr

7 Aug 2026, 09:19 UTC157 viewsread 7 August 2026

Nix Evaluation Is a Scheduling Problem Comments via notashelf.dev via abhin4v

7 Aug 2026, 07:19 UTC166 viewsread 7 August 2026

Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers Comments via blog.cloudflare.com via sanxiyn

Showing the 12 most recent of 40 posts we hold for @lobste_rs. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Forward network

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Hacker News
@hackernewslive · 28,227
Telegram ranks this channel #6 of 50 here — alongside 49 others — read 10 September 2026
Hacker News
@hacker_news_feed · 29,682
Telegram ranks this channel #8 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 8 September 2026
Linuxgram 🐧
@linuxgram · 72,741
Telegram ranks this channel #20 of 90 here — alongside 89 others — read 19 August 2026
Ordo Nexus
@nexus_search · 66,521
Telegram ranks this channel #24 of 74 here — alongside 73 others — read 22 August 2026
The Devs
@thedevs · 32,129
Telegram ranks this channel #39 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 5 September 2026
Yasser ICU
@yassericu · 38,189
Telegram ranks this channel #70 of 78 here — alongside 77 others — read 15 September 2026

This channel appears in 6 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 17 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Lobste.rs” (@lobste_rs), 1,819 subscribers as measured 17 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/lobste_rs.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.