The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• People cannot "just pay attention" to (boring, routine) things
  

  cogsci
  

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• Are arrays functions?
  

  plt
  

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• Everything Wrong with Material 3 Expressive
  

  android design
  

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• The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
  

  css rant web
  

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• Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14)
  

  linux
  

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• Writing First, Tooling Second
  

  culture
  

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• My thoughts on Gas Town after 10,000 hours of Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• river-classic: river 0.3.x forever
  

  linux
  

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• A Tale of UDP tracking: Hytale server auto stop and start with systemd
  

  systemd
  

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• Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm
  

  devops nix
  

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• air traffic control: the IBM 9020
  

  historical
  

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• The Only Two Markup Languages
  

  compsci
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is Zig so Cool?
  

  zig
  

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• Modern Java
  

  java
  

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• HTTP RateLimit headers
  

  api web
  

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• Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
  

  law vibecoding
  

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• Glasgow Interface Explorer Code of Conduct
  

  culture practices
  

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• The people who built Wikipedia, technically (2021)
  

  culture historical
  

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• Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news
  

  go retrocomputing
  

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• OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
  

  mac openbsd
  

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• A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9, part 1: Decoding Dolby
  

  android security
  

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• MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes
  

  databases
  

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• To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Integration tests are best tests
  

  go testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`
  

  browsers security web
  

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• Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
  

  design mac
  

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• potential security breach in syncthing-fork
  

  android security
  

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• Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness
  

  concatenative programming
  

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• One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics
  

  hardware historical unix
  

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• F35 Fighter Jet’s C++ Coding Standards
  

  pdf c++
  

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• The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to
  

  culture web
  

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• Practical guide to XHTML (2021)
  

  web
  

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• From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Nova Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• 150.000 nodes in a Virtual DOM? No problem
  

  video web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• jujutsu v0.36.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• How to speed up the Rust compiler in December 2025
  

  performance rust
  

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• Fairphone open-sources Fairphone 5 and 6 software, and Moments switch
  

  android
  

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• Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
  

  go rust zig
  

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• ][ Hello blog
  

  show go
  

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• Lobsters Interview with Aks
  

  person
  

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• Typewriter plotters
  

  hardware historical
  

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• Why ed(1)?
  

  editors
  

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• bcachefs 1.33.0 - reconcile
  

  linux release
  

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• APL for Plan9
  

  apl
  

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• JavaScript Announced 30 Years Ago
  

  historical javascript
  

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• Golang’s Big Miss on Memory Arenas
  

  go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
  

  browsers
  

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• Blocking LLM crawlers, without JavaScript
  

  web
  

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• librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem
  

  android
  

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• $1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux
  

  linux
  

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• your project fucking sucks
  

  culture practices rant
  

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• Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025
  

  retrocomputing unix
  

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• Jonathan Blow On Programming Language Design
  

  video compilers programming
  

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• Compiler Options Hardening Guide for C and C++
  

  c c++
  

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• brimstone: New JavaScript engine written in Rust
  

  javascript rust
  

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• Godbolt's Rule
  

  transcript performance
  

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• Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)
  

  hardware
  

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• Small functions considered harmful (2017)
  

  programming
  

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