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 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
  

  linux
  

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• Assorted less(1) tips
  

  unix
  

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• Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages
  

  compilers plt
  

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• which programming resource changed your career?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy
  

  editors emacs
  

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• Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust windows
  

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• 10 years of personal finances in plain text files
  

  finance python
  

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• xcc700: mini C compiler for esp32
  

  c compilers
  

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• Darktable Styles mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations
  

  graphics
  

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• Releasing Fjall 3.0
  

  databases release
  

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• Email Privacy Tester
  

  email privacy
  

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• hindsight: GitHub-style git activity visualizer for terminal
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 24, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The lightest notes app implementation in 111 loc
  

  show web
  

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• I foretold that Mac app notarization is security theater
  

  mac security
  

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• What's "new" in Miri (and also, there's a Miri paper!)
  

  rust
  

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• mquickjs: Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine
  

  javascript
  

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• FreeBSD Closes the Laptop Gap: Year One Project Update
  

  freebsd
  

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• Email Simplicity vs Decentralized Chat
  

  ask email networking
  

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• Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
  

  databases osdev
  

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• From Zero to QED: An informal introduction to formality in Lean 4
  

  compsci formalmethods
  

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• The Linux kernel is just a program
  

  go linux
  

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• Are we Loong yet?
  

  hardware
  

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• Introducing Open Forms
  

  release
  

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• Proposed Rust kernel extensions in place of eBPF
  

  linux rust
  

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

• Exploring the Fragmentation of Wayland, an xdotool adventure
  

  linux
  

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• We should all be using dependency cooldowns
  

  security
  

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• Solving Fizz Buzz with Cosines
  

  math programming
  

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• What's cooking on SourceHut? Q4 2025
  

  devops
  

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• How Slide Rules Work
  

  historical math
  

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• 2025 Go Cryptography State of the Union
  

  cryptography go
  

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• Memory is slow, Disk is fast
  

  performance
  

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• Finally, run Docker containers natively in Proxmox 9.1 (OCI images)
  

  linux virtualization
  

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• Thunderbird Pro November 2025 Update
  

  email
  

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• RFC Hub
  

  show practices
  

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• We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof
  

  cryptography javascript
  

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• Brownouts reveal system boundaries
  

  testing
  

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

• My most popular application
  

  show web
  

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• Just use cURL
  

  practices
  

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• 6 months of Tangled
  

  vcs
  

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• How I accidentally became PureGym's unofficial Apple Wallet developer
  

  programming
  

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• Plasma 6.5
  

  release
  

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• The joy of rediscovering Perl
  

  perl
  

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• Measuring Engineering Productivity
  

  practices
  

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• Continuously keep local mailboxes in sync with an IMAP server
  

  email
  

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• Tracking Time Without Clock
  

  programming
  

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• Judo (Jujutsu GUI)
  

  vcs
  

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• Yet Another Year With Decker (v1.44 - v1.60)
  

  apl release
  

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• Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance
  

  historical
  

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