The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• "a bootstrap chain for NixOS which builds the whole system from a small hand-auditable binary seed"
  

  nix security
  

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• 30 years of ReactOS
  

  osdev
  

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• Phantom Obligation
  

  design web
  

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• 9front "GEFS SERVICE PACK 1" released
  

  osdev release
  

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• How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications (2023)
  

  design
  

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• Some notes on starting to use Django
  

  python web
  

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• Ariel OS is a library operating system for secure, memory-safe, low-power Internet of Things, written in Rust
  

  hardware rust
  

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• I still don't understand this SYN attack, but now I can block it easily
  

  networking security
  

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• Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail
  

  freebsd mac
  

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• Why I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0
  

  graphics
  

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• There and Back Again: From Quickstrom to Bombadil
  

  testing web
  

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• Bf-Tree A Modern Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Range Index
  

  compsci databases rust
  

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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 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 December 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?
  

  assembly performance rust
  

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• Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes To Midnight
  

  osdev release
  

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• pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken
  

  vcs
  

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• Play the Monty Hall game
  

  games math
  

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• 39C3: Power Cycles Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Simplifying the build process for vst3-rs
  

  rust
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• This PNG will show different version if you open it in Chrome than in Safari
  

  graphics
  

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• Show: Twine - A tool to dynamically trace calls in production Elixir systems
  

  show elixir
  

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• Automating What Backblaze Lifecycle Rules Don't Do Instantly
  

  devops linux nix systemd
  

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• QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop Brings QNX 8.0 To A Wayland + Xfce Desktop
  

  osdev
  

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• From Intent to Proof: Dafny Verification for Web Apps
  

  formalmethods
  

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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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