The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• &&&&&&&&&&&&&&str
  

  performance rust
  

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• European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
  

  law
  

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• jujutsu v0.37.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• A data model for Git
  

  vcs
  

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• Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
  

  hardware
  

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• How Terminals Work
  

  unix
  

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• Celeste & TowerFall Physics
  

  games
  

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• I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine)
  

  devops
  

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• jxl-rs merged into Chromium
  

  browsers
  

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• I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)
  

  video games
  

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• HTML parsers in Portland
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Clang Hardening Cheat Sheet - Ten Years Later
  

  c++ compilers security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tailwind Labs loses 80% of revenue and 75% of engineering due to AI
  

  audio css
  

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• ACM is Now Fully Open Access
  

  compsci
  

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• What Happened To WebAssembly
  

  wasm
  

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• Relax for the same result (2015)
  

  person practices science
  

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• embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
  

  hardware rust
  

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• The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14
  

  debugging haskell release
  

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• How I program in AWK
  

  programming
  

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• Open Source Mapping for News: Reuters
  

  practices visualization
  

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• Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP
  

  cryptography
  

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• Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid
  

  philosophy programming
  

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• Effortless animations with CSS view transitions
  

  css web
  

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• NES Top Gun: landing hotfix
  

  games reversing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
  

  programming
  

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• Where are all the low-level JITs?
  

  ask compilers performance
  

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• A4 Paper Stories
  

  math
  

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• GoTHub SSH Signup
  

  openbsd vcs
  

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• PostgreSQL 18 RETURNING Enhancements: A Game Changer for Modern Applications
  

  databases
  

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• Adding insular script like it's 1626
  

  a11y graphics
  

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• XMPP and metadata
  

  networking privacy
  

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• This Month in Redox - December 2025
  

  osdev rust
  

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• The most popular Go dependency is…
  

  go
  

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• Diffs - JS library for rendering diffs
  

  javascript
  

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• Gemini Protocol Stats
  

  networking
  

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• Software craftsmanship is dead
  

  culture
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• go.sum Is Not a Lockfile
  

  go
  

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• Why Markdown emphasis fails in CJK: A deep dive into CommonMark's delimiter rules
  

  design web
  

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• The Best Line Length is 88
  

  programming
  

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• There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout
  

  networking security
  

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• I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)
  

  performance programming
  

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• Easy (Horizontal Scrollbar) Fixes for Your Blog CSS
  

  css
  

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• Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is your Type?
  

  c c++ rust
  

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• Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml
  

  ml
  

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• A field guide to sandboxes for AI
  

  security
  

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• Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand
  

  elm plt
  

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• so, you want to chunk really fast?
  

  performance
  

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• I switched from VSCode to Zed
  

  editors vscode
  

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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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