The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Lobsters Battlestations and Screenshots (2026)
  

  ask practices
  

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• Forgejo v14.0 is available
  

  release vcs web
  

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• The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
  

  cryptography
  

  Comments
• Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
  

  practices
  

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• Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
  

  programming
  

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• What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?
  

  rust
  

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• Rickroll in rustc
  

  rust satire
  

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• My Gripes with Prolog
  

  programming rant
  

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• Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck
  

  performance
  

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• Codeless Code - Fables & Koans for the Software Engineer
  

  art practices
  

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• Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Just the Browser
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Why We Don't Use AI
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Servo 2025 Stats
  

  browsers
  

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• Bevy 0.18
  

  games release rust
  

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• Interactive eBPF playground
  

  show linux
  

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• How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap
  

  performance
  

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• Rust at Volvo Cars
  

  video rust
  

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• TruffleRuby 33 is Released
  

  release ruby
  

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• Scrollbars in Scrollbars
  

  satire web
  

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• The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar
  

  culture
  

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• SelfCI - a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI
  

  show release
  

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• My Opinion on Spelling Run Time vs. Run-time vs. Runtime
  

  culture
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bad Dye Job
  

  design mac person
  

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• More assorted notes on Liquid Glass (2025)
  

  design mac
  

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• Text-based web browsers
  

  browsers
  

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• AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
  

  python
  

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• How to stick with your projects, even when they're janky
  

  video clojure compilers practices
  

  Comments
• Building a High-End AI Desktop
  

  hardware vibecoding
  

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• Date is out, Temporal is in
  

  javascript web
  

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• Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• The hidden cost of PostgreSQL arrays
  

  databases
  

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• Your CLI's completion should know what options you've already typed
  

  javascript programming
  

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• HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
  

  a11y design mac
  

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• WhatsApp is untrustable
  

  security
  

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• we rolled our own documentation site
  

  web
  

  Comments
• The rise (and future fall) of Discord (2024)
  

  culture historical
  

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• Who are people currently using as hosting providers?
  

  ask web
  

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• Rethinking Helix
  

  editors vim
  

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• Three Inverse Laws of Robotics
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The coolest feature in Python 3.14
  

  debugging devops python
  

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• A Typical PDF
  

  programming security
  

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• Turntiles, an NYT style word game I made for my parents
  

  games web
  

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• How to Make a Damn Website
  

  web
  

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• Anthropic blocks third-party tools using Claude Code OAuth tokens
  

  vibecoding
  

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

• Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
  

  vibecoding
  

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• jj tug
  

  vcs
  

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• OpenChaos.dev
  

  art
  

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• LLVM: The bad parts
  

  compilers
  

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• 80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3]
  

  programming
  

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• Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer
  

  retrocomputing windows
  

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• Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
  

  video linux
  

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• A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language
  

  performance plt
  

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• annote: Writing java using only annotations
  

  satire
  

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• I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It's Faster)
  

  databases performance
  

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• Continuous Snapshotting Filesystem
  

  linux
  

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• The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well
  

  finance
  

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