The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
  

  design ios mac
  

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• Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026
  

  email security
  

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• How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
  

  culture vcs
  

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• 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
  

  practices
  

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• Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
  

  databases
  

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• Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1
  

  hardware reversing
  

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• Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them
  

  rust
  

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• Go 1.26 interactive tour
  

  go
  

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• Utopian Scholastic
  

  philosophy
  

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• 4 Ways to Improve A Perfect Join Algorithm
  

  databases
  

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• Decorative Cryptography
  

  cryptography security
  

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• CheriBSD: FreeBSD that takes advantage of CHERI
  

  freebsd osdev security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026?
  

  linux
  

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• Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
  

  historical
  

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• KDE onboarding is good now
  

  programming
  

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• Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp
  

  lisp vibecoding
  

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• JavaScript engines zoo
  

  javascript
  

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• Street Fighter II, The World Warrier (2021)
  

  games historical
  

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• Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free?
  

  c c++ rust
  

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• Maybe Comments SHOULD Explain 'What' (2017)
  

  practices programming
  

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• How I browse the web in 2026
  

  web
  

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• Enterprise Integration Patterns: The Routing Slip
  

  api compsci distributed elixir erlang networking
  

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• minikv: A little KV store implementation in OCaml to practice DB systems things
  

  databases ml
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Who's Hiring? Q1 2026
  

  job
  

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• Why I switched away from Zig to C3
  

  c programming zig
  

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• Was it really a Billion Dollar Mistake?
  

  compilers plt programming
  

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• The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network
  

  networking security
  

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• State of the Server 2026
  

  linux web
  

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• Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11
  

  video performance
  

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• How HTML changes in ePub
  

  web
  

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• Bespoke software is the future
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Is tree-sitter good enough? (2022)
  

  compilers
  

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• Destination Driven Compilation
  

  compilers lisp
  

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• Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object?
  

  c c++ rust
  

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• A Comment-Preserving Cabal Parser
  

  haskell
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
  

  linux
  

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• Assorted less(1) tips
  

  unix
  

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• Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages
  

  compilers plt
  

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• which programming resource changed your career?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy
  

  editors emacs
  

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• Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust windows
  

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• 10 years of personal finances in plain text files
  

  finance python
  

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• xcc700: mini C compiler for esp32
  

  c compilers
  

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• Darktable Styles mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations
  

  graphics
  

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• Releasing Fjall 3.0
  

  databases release
  

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• Email Privacy Tester
  

  email privacy
  

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• hindsight: GitHub-style git activity visualizer for terminal
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I canceled my programming book deal
  

  person
  

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• corroded: Illegal rust
  

  rust satire
  

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• One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household
  

  finance python
  

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• How do you secure access to your self-hosted/homelab services?
  

  ask devops
  

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• Writing Windows 95 software in 2025
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad
  

  historical unix
  

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• What are you planning to learn in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• 2025: The year in LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released
  

  c release
  

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• Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
  

  c++
  

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• Statically Linking PipeWire
  

  linux
  

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• Why Object of Arrays (SoA pattern) beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance rabbit hole
  

  javascript performance
  

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