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 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
  

  a11y rant
  

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• Tag proposal: decentralization
  

  meta
  

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• Ruby's website got an overhaul
  

  design ruby
  

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• Go feature: Modernized go fix
  

  go
  

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• I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
  

  networking
  

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• The atomic time scale at NIST Boulder has failed
  

  devops networking
  

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• How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers
  

  web
  

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• dumbphone journey -- eight month update
  

  philosophy privacy
  

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• romforth: Ultra Portable, Small, Baremetal Forth for various processors
  

  concatenative
  

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• Granule, a statically-typed linear functional language with graded modal types
  

  plt
  

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• ARIN IPv4 misissue incident
  

  devops networking
  

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• Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers
  

  go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Ripgrep 15.0.0
  

  release
  

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• Everybody's so Creative
  

  rust
  

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• Software can be finished
  

  philosophy practices
  

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• The future of Python web services looks GIL-free
  

  python web
  

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• Weird, but Haskell feels easy
  

  haskell
  

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• Scheme Reports at Fifty: Where do we go from here?
  

  lisp
  

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• ./watch
  

  art hardware
  

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• Knowledge creates technical debt
  

  programming
  

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• Tracking Down a Regression in Mesa 3D
  

  debugging linux
  

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• How I made my own web server in Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Using PEGs in Janet
  

  lisp
  

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• Consistent Hashing
  

  programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Elixir v1.19 Released
  

  elixir release
  

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• Forgejo v13.0 is available
  

  release vcs
  

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• Why C variable argument functions are an abomination (and what to do about it)
  

  c
  

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• Paneru - A sliding, tiling window manager for MacOS
  

  mac
  

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• Zed editor is now available on Windows
  

  editors windows
  

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• Nix: connecting to the Sandbox
  

  nix
  

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• F5 Says Nation-State Hackers Stole Source Code and Vulnerability Data
  

  security
  

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• Design for the trash can
  

  philosophy
  

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• What’s your go-to strategy for giving engineers access to production?
  

  ask security
  

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• MNT September 2025 Update
  

  hardware
  

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• Unfair Flips World Record Strategy
  

  games math
  

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• Recreating the Canon Cat document interface
  

  editors osdev retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 14, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• smolBSD — build your own minimal BSD system
  

  netbsd osdev
  

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• Strudel REPL - a music live coding environment living in the browser
  

  programming
  

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• Abstraction, not syntax
  

  devops
  

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• Wireguard FPGA
  

  hardware networking
  

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• NSA and IETF: Can an attacker simply purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?
  

  cryptography
  

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• Free Software hasn't won
  

  law philosophy
  

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• Building multi-step login forms that work well with password managers
  

  web
  

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• I'd like to speak to the Bellcore ManaGeR
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• Thoughts on Remix 3
  

  web
  

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• JIT: so you want to be faster than an interpreter on modern CPUs…
  

  compilers databases hardware
  

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• What Dynamic Typing Is For
  

  practices web
  

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