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

• Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
  

  vibecoding
  

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• jj tug
  

  vcs
  

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• OpenChaos.dev
  

  art
  

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• LLVM: The bad parts
  

  compilers
  

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• 80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3]
  

  programming
  

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• Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer
  

  retrocomputing windows
  

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• Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
  

  video linux
  

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• A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language
  

  performance plt
  

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• annote: Writing java using only annotations
  

  satire
  

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• I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It's Faster)
  

  databases performance
  

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• Continuous Snapshotting Filesystem
  

  linux
  

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• The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well
  

  finance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tag Proposal: logic-lang
  

  meta
  

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• Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
  

  debugging zig
  

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• Prompting 101: Show, don’t tell
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How I use Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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• Shell scripts
  

  devops programming
  

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• How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster
  

  performance python
  

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• slidge.im - Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks
  

  networking
  

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• Pulling a New Proof from Knuth’s Fixed-Point Printer
  

  compsci
  

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• Answer Set Programming (2019)
  

  book pdf compsci
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust
  

  show rust vibecoding
  

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• Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months
  

  elixir
  

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