The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
  

  vim
  

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• A Website To End All Websites
  

  web
  

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• 6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available
  

  networking security
  

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• ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
  

  graphics visualization
  

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• smalloc: a simple memory allocator
  

  rust
  

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• kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
  

  plt
  

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• READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust
  

  linux rust
  

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• I hotreload Rust and so can you
  

  rust
  

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• Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision
  

  rust
  

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• Cutting LLM token Usage by ~80% using REPL driven document analysis
  

  lisp programming vibecoding
  

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• Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026
  

  design
  

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• What are your favorite drawing libraries?
  

  ask visualization
  

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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 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
  

  a11y design mac
  

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• WhatsApp is untrustable
  

  security
  

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• we rolled our own documentation site
  

  web
  

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• The rise (and future fall) of Discord (2024)
  

  culture historical
  

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• Who are people currently using as hosting providers?
  

  ask web
  

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• Rethinking Helix
  

  editors vim
  

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• Three Inverse Laws of Robotics
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The coolest feature in Python 3.14
  

  debugging devops python
  

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• A Typical PDF
  

  programming security
  

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• Turntiles, an NYT style word game I made for my parents
  

  games web
  

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• How to Make a Damn Website
  

  web
  

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• Anthropic blocks third-party tools using Claude Code OAuth tokens
  

  vibecoding
  

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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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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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