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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A SOLID Load of Bull
  

  programming
  

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• What are some interesting projects that you've done this year?
  

  ask programming
  

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• A vulnerability in libsodium
  

  cryptography
  

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• Mastodon Stories for systemd v259
  

  systemd
  

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• Fixing a Buffer Overflow in UNIX v4 Like It's 1973
  

  unix
  

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• Why we trust strangers’ open source more than our colleagues’
  

  practices programming
  

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• Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System
  

  video hardware rust
  

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• Using The Corne Split Keyboard For Half A Year
  

  hardware
  

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• What I've Learned Writing Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Make-shift shebangs for Go
  

  go unix
  

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• Memory Safety Is …
  

  plt
  

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• Building a React App with Formally Verified State
  

  formalmethods vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Curl removes all calls to strcpy
  

  c practices
  

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• loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux
  

  linux windows
  

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• FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
  

  freebsd networking
  

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• The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
  

  web
  

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• Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv?
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Git's HTTP server side design does not scale
  

  devops
  

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• How to Ruin All of Package Management
  

  practices security
  

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• Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word
  

  plt
  

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• Glamorous Christmas: Bringing Charm to Ruby
  

  go ruby
  

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• Replacing python-dateutil to remove six
  

  python
  

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• 1ML for non-specialists: introduction
  

  plt
  

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• Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse
  

  linux systemd
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What an unprocessed photo looks like
  

  graphics
  

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• Parsing Advances
  

  plt
  

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• LLMs Are Not Fun
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Second Great Error Model Convergence
  

  plt programming
  

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• My First Meshtastic Network
  

  hardware
  

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• You can make up HTML tags
  

  a11y web
  

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• Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers should be enough for anybody
  

  performance scaling
  

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• Garbage collection in Rust got a little better
  

  rust
  

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• Static Allocation with Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Huge binaries
  

  assembly
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Rust Errors Without Dependencies
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 39C3: To sign or not to sign: Practical vulnerabilities in GPG & friends
  

  security
  

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• Replacing JS with just HTML
  

  web
  

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• Release age v1.3.0: post-quantum (and more)
  

  cryptography release
  

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• On LLMs in programming
  

  vibecoding
  

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• gpg.fail
  

  video cryptography security
  

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• Goodbye Sass
  

  web
  

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• The production bug that made me care about undefined behavior
  

  c++
  

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• You can't design software you don't work on
  

  practices
  

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• CVE-2025-14847: MongoBleed
  

  databases security
  

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• Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi
  

  retrocomputing windows
  

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• Easel Turns One! One year of building my own IDE in Clojure
  

  clojure editors
  

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• MongoBleed explained simply
  

  security
  

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