The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No, Cloudflare's Matrix server isn't an earnest project
  

  distributed vibecoding
  

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• Solving Fossil's ASCII art CAPTCHA in 171 characters
  

  security
  

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• 10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective
  

  wasm
  

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• Email experiments: filtering out external images
  

  email
  

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• Backseat Software
  

  design
  

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• How AI Impacts Skill Formation
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Coding Is When We’re Least Productive
  

  programming
  

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• Google Disrupts Large Residential Proxy Network
  

  networking security web
  

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• GNU Units
  

  c math
  

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• The Dank Case For Scrolling Window Managers
  

  linux
  

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• Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees
  

  devops distributed release
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management
  

  c python rust
  

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• UEFIGame: "Win -> Boot, Lose -> Shutdown"
  

  games
  

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• It is incorrect to “normalize” // in HTTP URL paths
  

  web
  

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• Use “\A...\z”, not “^...$” with Python regular expressions
  

  python
  

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• The Rise of Sanityware
  

  web
  

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• Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself
  

  vibecoding
  

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• make.ts
  

  practices
  

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• Places to Telnet
  

  networking
  

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• A "Pure Go" Linux environment, written by Claude
  

  go vibecoding
  

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• MonkeyBall Online
  

  games web
  

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• Barev - XMPP flavoured p2p protocol
  

  distributed linux networking privacy
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• December in Servo
  

  browsers release
  

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• How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
  

  practices
  

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• e9p - pure Erlang 9p implementation
  

  show erlang
  

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• Firefox & Linux in 2025
  

  browsers linux
  

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• Considering Strictly Monotonic Time
  

  programming
  

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• (Open) Widevine support added to the chromium port
  

  browsers openbsd
  

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• Interfaces and traits in C
  

  c
  

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• Obvious Things C Should Do
  

  c
  

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• Coi - WebAssembly for the Modern Web
  

  wasm web
  

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• modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space
  

  linux
  

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• Why a God Can't Play A Link to the Past
  

  video games
  

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• Maintaining shadow branches for GitHub PRs
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• jQuery 4.0.0 Released
  

  javascript web
  

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• How the Lobsters front page works
  

  programming
  

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• Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
  

  linux security
  

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• A Social Filesystem
  

  distributed programming web
  

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• How Many Pixels Do You Really Need?
  

  historical
  

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• some C habits I employ for the modern day
  

  c practices
  

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• Designated Initializers, the best feature of C++20
  

  c c++
  

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• If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
  

  programming
  

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• The Gnome Village
  

  erlang practices
  

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• More HTTP/3 focus, one backend less
  

  web
  

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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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