The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
  

  vim
  

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• A Website To End All Websites
  

  web
  

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• 6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available
  

  networking security
  

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• ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
  

  graphics visualization
  

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• smalloc: a simple memory allocator
  

  rust
  

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• kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
  

  plt
  

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• READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust
  

  linux rust
  

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• I hotreload Rust and so can you
  

  rust
  

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• Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision
  

  rust
  

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• Cutting LLM token Usage by ~80% using REPL driven document analysis
  

  lisp programming vibecoding
  

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• Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026
  

  design
  

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• What are your favorite drawing libraries?
  

  ask visualization
  

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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 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• go.sum Is Not a Lockfile
  

  go
  

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• Why Markdown emphasis fails in CJK: A deep dive into CommonMark's delimiter rules
  

  design web
  

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• The Best Line Length is 88
  

  programming
  

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• There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout
  

  networking security
  

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• I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)
  

  performance programming
  

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• Easy (Horizontal Scrollbar) Fixes for Your Blog CSS
  

  css
  

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• Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is your Type?
  

  c c++ rust
  

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• Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml
  

  ml
  

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• A field guide to sandboxes for AI
  

  security
  

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• Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand
  

  elm plt
  

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• so, you want to chunk really fast?
  

  performance
  

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• I switched from VSCode to Zed
  

  editors vscode
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Who's Hiring? Q1 2026
  

  job
  

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• Why I switched away from Zig to C3
  

  c programming zig
  

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• Was it really a Billion Dollar Mistake?
  

  compilers plt programming
  

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• The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network
  

  networking security
  

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• State of the Server 2026
  

  linux web
  

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• Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11
  

  video performance
  

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• How HTML changes in ePub
  

  web
  

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• Bespoke software is the future
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Is tree-sitter good enough? (2022)
  

  compilers
  

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• Destination Driven Compilation
  

  compilers lisp
  

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• Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object?
  

  c c++ rust
  

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• A Comment-Preserving Cabal Parser
  

  haskell
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop
  

  linux
  

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• Assorted less(1) tips
  

  unix
  

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• Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages
  

  compilers plt
  

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• which programming resource changed your career?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy
  

  editors emacs
  

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• Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta
  

  release retrocomputing rust windows
  

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• 10 years of personal finances in plain text files
  

  finance python
  

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• xcc700: mini C compiler for esp32
  

  c compilers
  

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• Darktable Styles mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations
  

  graphics
  

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• Releasing Fjall 3.0
  

  databases release
  

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• Email Privacy Tester
  

  email privacy
  

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• hindsight: GitHub-style git activity visualizer for terminal
  

  rust
  

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