The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
  

  programming
  

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• Where are all the low-level JITs?
  

  ask compilers performance
  

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• A4 Paper Stories
  

  math
  

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• GoTHub SSH Signup
  

  openbsd vcs
  

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• PostgreSQL 18 RETURNING Enhancements: A Game Changer for Modern Applications
  

  databases
  

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• Adding insular script like it's 1626
  

  a11y graphics
  

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• XMPP and metadata
  

  networking privacy
  

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• This Month in Redox - December 2025
  

  osdev rust
  

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• The most popular Go dependency is…
  

  go
  

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• Diffs - JS library for rendering diffs
  

  javascript
  

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• Gemini Protocol Stats
  

  networking
  

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• Software craftsmanship is dead
  

  culture
  

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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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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 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 December 15, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• what is a build system, anyway?
  

  programming
  

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• Build Systems A La Carte (2018)
  

  pdf programming
  

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• Editors should have an opt-in for less assistance (2024)
  

  editors
  

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• Rats Play Doom
  

  games
  

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• Indexed Reverse Polish Notation, an Alternative to AST
  

  compilers
  

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• icl: Interactive Common Lisp: an enhanced REPL
  

  lisp
  

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• A distraction-free writing environment
  

  editors
  

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• Stop writing if statements for your CLI flags
  

  javascript
  

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• How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Using nvi as a Minimal and Fast Text Editor
  

  editors
  

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• The <time> element should actually do something
  

  a11y web
  

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• Indices point between elements (2015)
  

  programming
  

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