The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• People cannot "just pay attention" to (boring, routine) things
  

  cogsci
  

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• Are arrays functions?
  

  plt
  

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• Everything Wrong with Material 3 Expressive
  

  android design
  

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• The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
  

  css rant web
  

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• Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14)
  

  linux
  

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• Writing First, Tooling Second
  

  culture
  

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• My thoughts on Gas Town after 10,000 hours of Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• river-classic: river 0.3.x forever
  

  linux
  

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• A Tale of UDP tracking: Hytale server auto stop and start with systemd
  

  systemd
  

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• Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm
  

  devops nix
  

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• air traffic control: the IBM 9020
  

  historical
  

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• The Only Two Markup Languages
  

  compsci
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• jQuery 4.0.0 Released
  

  javascript web
  

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• How the Lobsters front page works
  

  programming
  

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• Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
  

  linux security
  

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• A Social Filesystem
  

  distributed programming web
  

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• How Many Pixels Do You Really Need?
  

  historical
  

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• some C habits I employ for the modern day
  

  c practices
  

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• Designated Initializers, the best feature of C++20
  

  c c++
  

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• If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
  

  programming
  

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• The Gnome Village
  

  erlang practices
  

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• More HTTP/3 focus, one backend less
  

  web
  

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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 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 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026?
  

  linux
  

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• Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
  

  historical
  

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• KDE onboarding is good now
  

  programming
  

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• Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp
  

  lisp vibecoding
  

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• JavaScript engines zoo
  

  javascript
  

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• Street Fighter II, The World Warrier (2021)
  

  games historical
  

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• Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free?
  

  c c++ rust
  

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• Maybe Comments SHOULD Explain 'What' (2017)
  

  practices programming
  

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• How I browse the web in 2026
  

  web
  

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• Enterprise Integration Patterns: The Routing Slip
  

  api compsci distributed elixir erlang networking
  

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• minikv: A little KV store implementation in OCaml to practice DB systems things
  

  databases ml
  

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