The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
  

  security
  

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• GNU Guix 1.5.0 released
  

  nix
  

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• AGENTS.md as a dark signal
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
  

  networking performance vibecoding
  

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• What has Docker become?
  

  devops
  

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• Selectively Disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1
  

  networking
  

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• We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder
  

  games
  

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• Explainer: Tree-sitter vs. LSP
  

  editors programming
  

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• remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk with systemd initrd on Arch
  

  linux systemd
  

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• The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly
  

  compilers lisp wasm
  

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• CTA Hierarchy in the Wild
  

  design
  

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• Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly
  

  lisp wasm
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reliable Signals of Honest Intent
  

  vibecoding
  

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• FOSS for digital sovereignty in the EU
  

  law
  

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• I Made Zig Compute 33 Million Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required
  

  performance zig
  

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• I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote a new file format
  

  performance
  

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• So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations?
  

  linux
  

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• Rust's standard library on the GPU
  

  graphics rust
  

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• Nested Code Fences in Markdown
  

  practices
  

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• The Jule Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• Little Sound Dj
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Skip Is Now Free and Open Source
  

  android ios swift
  

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• Building a javascript runtime in one month
  

  javascript
  

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• Why not tail recursion?
  

  plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
  

  education
  

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• Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast
  

  go math performance
  

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• Prediction: Within 15 years Microsoft will discontinue Windows in favor of a Windows themed Linux distribution
  

  linux windows
  

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• Why ALTER TABLE is such a problem for SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• Personal infrastructure setup 2026
  

  linux
  

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• Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
  

  databases performance
  

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• The lost art of XML
  

  programming rant
  

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• AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms (2025)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• LLMs and your career
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Type-safe eval in Grace
  

  plt
  

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• Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler
  

  games linux
  

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• My week with opencode
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 16, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Lobsters Battlestations and Screenshots (2026)
  

  ask practices
  

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• Forgejo v14.0 is available
  

  release vcs web
  

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• The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography
  

  cryptography
  

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• Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail
  

  practices
  

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• Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
  

  programming
  

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• What does it take to ship Rust in safety-critical?
  

  rust
  

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• Rickroll in rustc
  

  rust satire
  

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• My Gripes with Prolog
  

  programming rant
  

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• Claude Cowork Exfiltrates Files
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck
  

  performance
  

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• Codeless Code - Fables & Koans for the Software Engineer
  

  art practices
  

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• Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source
  

  databases
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Just the Browser
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Why We Don't Use AI
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Servo 2025 Stats
  

  browsers
  

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• Bevy 0.18
  

  games release rust
  

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• Interactive eBPF playground
  

  show linux
  

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• How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap
  

  performance
  

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• Rust at Volvo Cars
  

  video rust
  

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• TruffleRuby 33 is Released
  

  release ruby
  

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• Scrollbars in Scrollbars
  

  satire web
  

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• The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar
  

  culture
  

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• SelfCI - a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI
  

  show release
  

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• My Opinion on Spelling Run Time vs. Run-time vs. Runtime
  

  culture
  

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