The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
  

  education
  

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• Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast
  

  go math performance
  

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• Prediction: Within 15 years Microsoft will discontinue Windows in favor of a Windows themed Linux distribution
  

  linux windows
  

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• Why ALTER TABLE is such a problem for SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• Personal infrastructure setup 2026
  

  linux
  

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• Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
  

  databases performance
  

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• The lost art of XML
  

  programming rant
  

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• AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms (2025)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• LLMs and your career
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Type-safe eval in Grace
  

  plt
  

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• Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler
  

  games linux
  

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• My week with opencode
  

  vibecoding
  

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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 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 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bad Dye Job
  

  design mac person
  

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• More assorted notes on Liquid Glass (2025)
  

  design mac
  

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• Text-based web browsers
  

  browsers
  

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• AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
  

  python
  

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• How to stick with your projects, even when they're janky
  

  video clojure compilers practices
  

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• Building a High-End AI Desktop
  

  hardware vibecoding
  

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• Date is out, Temporal is in
  

  javascript web
  

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• Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• The hidden cost of PostgreSQL arrays
  

  databases
  

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• Your CLI's completion should know what options you've already typed
  

  javascript programming
  

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• HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books
  

  vibecoding
  

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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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