The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
  

  distributed rant vibecoding
  

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• But how to get to that European cloud?
  

  law philosophy
  

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• Xfwl4: The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
  

  linux rust
  

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• Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
  

  games graphics
  

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• Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs
  

  browsers web
  

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• Bugs Apple Loves
  

  mac
  

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• I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software
  

  law programming
  

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• Microsoft obeys court orders to provide Windows BitLocker recovery keys
  

  cryptography security windows
  

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• Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge (Winter 2025-2026)
  

  nix python vibecoding
  

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• t: a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of Unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq
  

  unix vibecoding
  

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• Nixtamal: Fulfilling, Pure Input Pinning for Nix
  

  show nix
  

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• Blocking Claude
  

  networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Lobsters Battlestations and Screenshots (2026)
  

  ask practices
  

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• Forgejo v14.0 is available
  

  release vcs web
  

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• The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
  

  cryptography
  

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• Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
  

  practices
  

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• Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
  

  programming
  

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• What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?
  

  rust
  

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• Rickroll in rustc
  

  rust satire
  

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• My Gripes with Prolog
  

  programming rant
  

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• Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck
  

  performance
  

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• Codeless Code - Fables & Koans for the Software Engineer
  

  art practices
  

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• Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
  

  databases
  

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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 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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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
  

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

  ask programming
  

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• A vulnerability in libsodium
  

  cryptography
  

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• Mastodon Stories for systemd v259
  

  systemd
  

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

  unix
  

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

  practices programming
  

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

  video hardware rust
  

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• Using The Corne Split Keyboard For Half A Year
  

  hardware
  

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• What I've Learned Writing Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Make-shift shebangs for Go
  

  go unix
  

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• Memory Safety Is …
  

  plt
  

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• Building a React App with Formally Verified State
  

  formalmethods vibecoding
  

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