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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
  

  performance programming vcs
  

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• Gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025
  

  gleam
  

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• Ruby 4.0.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• ssh tiny.christmas
  

  art
  

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• Newtype Index Pattern In Zig
  

  zig
  

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• phoenix - A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
  

  graphics
  

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• cjanet
  

  c lisp
  

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• The HTML Elements Time Forgot
  

  historical web
  

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• (My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)
  

  games linux
  

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• Avoid mini-frameworks
  

  programming
  

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• Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
  

  video cryptography distributed math
  

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• Wayback 0.3 Released
  

  linux release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
  

  culture
  

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• Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
  

  css web
  

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• UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah
  

  historical unix
  

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• Rust’s Block Pattern
  

  rust
  

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• Pedagogy Recommendations
  

  education
  

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• What do people love about Rust?
  

  rust
  

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• Building a Transparent Keyserver
  

  cryptography
  

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• 8-bit Boléro (the world’s most ambitious chiptune?)
  

  audio video art hardware retrocomputing
  

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• A love letter to Raycast
  

  mac
  

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• When Scope Lies: The Wildcard Pattern Drop Footgun in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The scariest boot loader code
  

  hardware netbsd openbsd
  

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• Backing up Spotify
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go ahead, self-host Postgres
  

  databases devops
  

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• how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick
  

  web
  

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• WireGuard® implementation written in Rust
  

  cryptography networking rust
  

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• I got hacked, my server started mining Monero this morning
  

  devops security
  

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• dogalog: Prolog-based livecoding music environment
  

  art vibecoding
  

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• Help my website is too small
  

  satire web
  

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• Making the Most of Bit Arrays
  

  gleam
  

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• Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how?
  

  ai
  

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• Booleans don't exist in Ruby (2022)
  

  ruby
  

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• headson: head/tail for structured data - summarize/preview JSON/YAML and source code
  

  rust
  

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• Remote code execution via ND6 Router Advertisements
  

  freebsd security
  

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• Partial inlining
  

  compilers performance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?
  

  law networking person
  

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• Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
  

  security
  

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• The original Mozilla "Dinosaur" logo artwork
  

  art historical
  

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• Opus 1.6 Released
  

  release
  

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• vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting
  

  linux
  

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• File d'attente - file-based job queue tool
  

  show go linux unix
  

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• Odin's Most Misunderstood Feature: `context`
  

  plt programming
  

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• How Twitter is (probably) crawling the Internet for AI
  

  networking vibecoding
  

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• A Survey of Dynamic Array Structures
  

  programming
  

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• Keeping secrets, or (less than two weeks ago)
  

  privacy
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.18
  

  linux mac
  

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• Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
  

  linux rust
  

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