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 December 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How uv got so fast
  

  performance
  

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• TIL: serde's borrowing can be treacherous
  

  rust
  

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• Are Two Heads Better Than One?
  

  math
  

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• Writing an NES emulator in Haskell
  

  haskell retrocomputing
  

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• I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
  

  culture hardware
  

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• Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4
  

  security
  

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• Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
  

  performance python
  

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• When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions
  

  hardware openbsd
  

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• One formula that demystifies 3D graphics
  

  video education graphics
  

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• The Algebra of Loans in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Ancient Greek geometry
  

  design games math
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
  

  a11y rant
  

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• Tag proposal: decentralization
  

  meta
  

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• Ruby's website got an overhaul
  

  design ruby
  

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• Go feature: Modernized go fix
  

  go
  

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• I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
  

  networking
  

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• The atomic time scale at NIST Boulder has failed
  

  devops networking
  

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• How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers
  

  web
  

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• dumbphone journey -- eight month update
  

  philosophy privacy
  

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• romforth: Ultra Portable, Small, Baremetal Forth for various processors
  

  concatenative
  

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• Granule, a statically-typed linear functional language with graded modal types
  

  plt
  

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• ARIN IPv4 misissue incident
  

  devops networking
  

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• Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers
  

  go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 09, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`
  

  browsers security web
  

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• Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help
  

  design mac
  

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• potential security breach in syncthing-fork
  

  android security
  

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• Jepsen: NATS 2.12.1
  

  databases distributed testing
  

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• An Attempt at a Compelling Articulation of Forth's Practical Strengths and Eternal Usefulness
  

  concatenative programming
  

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• One too many words on AT&T's $2,000 Korn shell and other Usenet topics
  

  hardware historical unix
  

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• F35 Fighter Jet’s C++ Coding Standards
  

  pdf c++
  

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• The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to
  

  culture web
  

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• Practical guide to XHTML (2021)
  

  web
  

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• From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
  

  freebsd
  

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• Nova Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• 150.000 nodes in a Virtual DOM? No problem
  

  video web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 04, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My First Impressions of MeshCore Off-Grid Messaging
  

  hardware
  

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• Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
  

  plt zig
  

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• Progress on TypeScript 7 - December 2025
  

  compilers
  

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• Ghostty Is Now Non-Profit
  

  release
  

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• ACME Challenge for Persistent DNS TXT Record Validation
  

  security
  

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• EmacsConf 2025
  

  emacs event
  

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• How should we peer review software?
  

  practices science
  

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• It's Not Always ICache (2021)
  

  assembly performance
  

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• Web-based markdown editor with no AI
  

  show design
  

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• Lazier Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) for set-theoretic types
  

  elixir plt
  

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• Addressing the adding situation
  

  assembly compilers
  

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• nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in nix
  

  show nix
  

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