The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I canceled my programming book deal
  

  person
  

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• corroded: Illegal rust
  

  rust satire
  

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• One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household
  

  finance python
  

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• How do you secure access to your self-hosted/homelab services?
  

  ask devops
  

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• Writing Windows 95 software in 2025
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad
  

  historical unix
  

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• What are you planning to learn in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• 2025: The year in LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released
  

  c release
  

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• Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
  

  c++
  

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• Statically Linking PipeWire
  

  linux
  

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• Why Object of Arrays (SoA pattern) beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance rabbit hole
  

  javascript performance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
  

  performance programming vcs
  

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• Gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025
  

  gleam
  

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• Ruby 4.0.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• ssh tiny.christmas
  

  art
  

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• Newtype Index Pattern In Zig
  

  zig
  

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• phoenix - A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
  

  graphics
  

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• cjanet
  

  c lisp
  

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• The HTML Elements Time Forgot
  

  historical web
  

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• (My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)
  

  games linux
  

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• Avoid mini-frameworks
  

  programming
  

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• Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
  

  video cryptography distributed math
  

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• Wayback 0.3 Released
  

  linux release
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Your favorite pieces of technical writing?
  

  ask meta
  

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• I'm returning my Framework 16
  

  hardware
  

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• They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)
  

  historical mac
  

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• cpu: cpu command in Go, inspired by the Plan 9 cpu command
  

  go osdev
  

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• An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape
  

  retrocomputing unix
  

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• folder.zone: Share end-to-end encrypted folders live
  

  show cryptography web
  

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• Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode
  

  c unix
  

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• dirlock
  

  linux
  

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• Reproducing the NixOS 25.11 Minimal Installation ISO
  

  nix
  

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• Vigil - A clean, fast build watcher for Zig (inspired by Bacon for Rust)
  

  show zig
  

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• The wonder of MSBuild
  

  dotnet
  

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• How and why I moved from Apple Services to my own server
  

  linux
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The Mysterious Forces Steering Views on Hacker News
  

  culture
  

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• Introducing CSS Grid Lanes
  

  css web
  

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• UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah
  

  historical unix
  

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• Rust’s Block Pattern
  

  rust
  

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• Pedagogy Recommendations
  

  education
  

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• What do people love about Rust?
  

  rust
  

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• Building a Transparent Keyserver
  

  cryptography
  

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• 8-bit Boléro (the world’s most ambitious chiptune?)
  

  audio video art hardware retrocomputing
  

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• A love letter to Raycast
  

  mac
  

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• When Scope Lies: The Wildcard Pattern Drop Footgun in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• The scariest boot loader code
  

  hardware netbsd openbsd
  

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• Backing up Spotify
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 18, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?
  

  law networking person
  

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• Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
  

  security
  

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• The original Mozilla "Dinosaur" logo artwork
  

  art historical
  

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• Opus 1.6 Released
  

  release
  

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• vm.overcommit_memory=2 is always the right setting
  

  linux
  

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• File d'attente - file-based job queue tool
  

  show go linux unix
  

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• Odin's Most Misunderstood Feature: `context`
  

  plt programming
  

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• How Twitter is (probably) crawling the Internet for AI
  

  networking vibecoding
  

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• A Survey of Dynamic Array Structures
  

  programming
  

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• Keeping secrets, or (less than two weeks ago)
  

  privacy
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.18
  

  linux mac
  

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• Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability
  

  linux rust
  

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