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
  

  Comments
• Why I switched away from Zig to C3
  

  c programming zig
  

  Comments
• Was it really a Billion Dollar Mistake?
  

  compilers plt programming
  

  Comments
• The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network
  

  networking security
  

  Comments
• State of the Server 2026
  

  linux web
  

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

  video performance
  

  Comments
• How HTML changes in ePub
  

  web
  

  Comments
• Bespoke software is the future
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Is tree-sitter good enough? (2022)
  

  compilers
  

  Comments
• Destination Driven Compilation
  

  compilers lisp
  

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

  c c++ rust
  

  Comments
• A Comment-Preserving Cabal Parser
  

  haskell
  

  Comments

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
  

  Comments
• Assorted less(1) tips
  

  unix
  

  Comments
• Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages
  

  compilers plt
  

  Comments
• which programming resource changed your career?
  

  ask programming
  

  Comments
• Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy
  

  editors emacs
  

  Comments
• Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust windows
  

  Comments
• 10 years of personal finances in plain text files
  

  finance python
  

  Comments
• xcc700: mini C compiler for esp32
  

  c compilers
  

  Comments
• Darktable Styles mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations
  

  graphics
  

  Comments
• Releasing Fjall 3.0
  

  databases release
  

  Comments
• Email Privacy Tester
  

  email privacy
  

  Comments
• hindsight: GitHub-style git activity visualizer for terminal
  

  rust
  

  Comments

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
  

  Comments
• corroded: Illegal rust
  

  rust satire
  

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

  finance python
  

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

  ask devops
  

  Comments
• Writing Windows 95 software in 2025
  

  retrocomputing
  

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

  historical unix
  

  Comments
• What are you planning to learn in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

  Comments
• 2025: The year in LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released
  

  c release
  

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

  c++
  

  Comments
• Statically Linking PipeWire
  

  linux
  

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

  javascript performance
  

  Comments

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
  

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

  ask programming
  

  Comments
• A vulnerability in libsodium
  

  cryptography
  

  Comments
• Mastodon Stories for systemd v259
  

  systemd
  

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

  unix
  

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

  practices programming
  

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

  video hardware rust
  

  Comments
• Using The Corne Split Keyboard For Half A Year
  

  hardware
  

  Comments
• What I've Learned Writing Gleam
  

  gleam
  

  Comments
• Make-shift shebangs for Go
  

  go unix
  

  Comments
• Memory Safety Is …
  

  plt
  

  Comments
• Building a React App with Formally Verified State
  

  formalmethods vibecoding
  

  Comments

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
  

  Comments
• loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux
  

  linux windows
  

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

  freebsd networking
  

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

  web
  

  Comments
• Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv?
  

  performance ruby
  

  Comments
• Git's HTTP server side design does not scale
  

  devops
  

  Comments
• How to Ruin All of Package Management
  

  practices security
  

  Comments
• Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word
  

  plt
  

  Comments
• Glamorous Christmas: Bringing Charm to Ruby
  

  go ruby
  

  Comments
• Replacing python-dateutil to remove six
  

  python
  

  Comments
• 1ML for non-specialists: introduction
  

  plt
  

  Comments
• Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse
  

  linux systemd
  

  Comments