The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why there’s no European Google?
  

  philosophy
  

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• zerobrew is a Rust-based, 5-20x faster drop-in Homebrew alternative
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• The Enclosure feedback loop, or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The state of Linux music players in 2026
  

  linux
  

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• How to think about Gas Town
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Screeps: How a game about programming exposed thousands of players to remote code execution
  

  games security
  

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• Apple, What Have You Done?
  

  mac
  

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• McCLIM and 7GUIs - Part 1: The Counter
  

  lisp programming
  

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• sysp: Systems Lisp compiling to C with homoiconic macros, refcounted memory, Hindley-Milner type inference
  

  lisp
  

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• Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
  

  linux mac
  

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• Exploring Linux on a LoongArch Mini PC
  

  hardware linux
  

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• Allowlist for .gitignore
  

  vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• AI tribalism
  

  vibecoding
  

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• I Was Right About ATProto Key Management
  

  distributed
  

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• Home router recommendations
  

  ask networking
  

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• The Value of Things
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing
  

  design
  

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• Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires
  

  hardware
  

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• Welcome to Town Al-Gasr
  

  satire vibecoding
  

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• Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity
  

  nix
  

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• I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog
  

  web
  

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• MikroTik first look and getting started
  

  networking
  

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• The IndieWeb and Small web
  

  culture
  

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• Welcome to the "Email Expiration Date" initiative
  

  email
  

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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 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• &&&&&&&&&&&&&&str
  

  performance rust
  

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• European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
  

  law
  

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• jujutsu v0.37.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• A data model for Git
  

  vcs
  

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• Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
  

  hardware
  

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• How Terminals Work
  

  unix
  

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• Celeste & TowerFall Physics
  

  games
  

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• I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine)
  

  devops
  

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• jxl-rs merged into Chromium
  

  browsers
  

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• I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)
  

  video games
  

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• HTML parsers in Portland
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Clang Hardening Cheat Sheet - Ten Years Later
  

  c++ compilers security
  

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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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