The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why there’s no European Google?
  

  philosophy
  

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• zerobrew is a Rust-based, 5-20x faster drop-in Homebrew alternative
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• The Enclosure feedback loop, or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The state of Linux music players in 2026
  

  linux
  

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• How to think about Gas Town
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Screeps: How a game about programming exposed thousands of players to remote code execution
  

  games security
  

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• Apple, What Have You Done?
  

  mac
  

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• McCLIM and 7GUIs - Part 1: The Counter
  

  lisp programming
  

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• sysp: Systems Lisp compiling to C with homoiconic macros, refcounted memory, Hindley-Milner type inference
  

  lisp
  

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• Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
  

  linux mac
  

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• Exploring Linux on a LoongArch Mini PC
  

  hardware linux
  

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• Allowlist for .gitignore
  

  vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• December in Servo
  

  browsers release
  

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• How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
  

  practices
  

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• e9p - pure Erlang 9p implementation
  

  show erlang
  

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• Firefox & Linux in 2025
  

  browsers linux
  

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• Considering Strictly Monotonic Time
  

  programming
  

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• (Open) Widevine support added to the chromium port
  

  browsers openbsd
  

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• Interfaces and traits in C
  

  c
  

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• Obvious Things C Should Do
  

  c
  

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• Coi - WebAssembly for the Modern Web
  

  wasm web
  

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• modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space
  

  linux
  

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• Why a God Can't Play A Link to the Past
  

  video games
  

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• Maintaining shadow branches for GitHub PRs
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

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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 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• jQuery 4.0.0 Released
  

  javascript web
  

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• How the Lobsters front page works
  

  programming
  

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• Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
  

  linux security
  

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• A Social Filesystem
  

  distributed programming web
  

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• How Many Pixels Do You Really Need?
  

  historical
  

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• some C habits I employ for the modern day
  

  c practices
  

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• Designated Initializers, the best feature of C++20
  

  c c++
  

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• If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
  

  programming
  

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• The Gnome Village
  

  erlang practices
  

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• More HTTP/3 focus, one backend less
  

  web
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is Zig so Cool?
  

  zig
  

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• Modern Java
  

  java
  

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• HTTP RateLimit headers
  

  api web
  

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• Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
  

  law vibecoding
  

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• Glasgow Interface Explorer Code of Conduct
  

  culture practices
  

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• The people who built Wikipedia, technically (2021)
  

  culture historical
  

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• Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news
  

  go retrocomputing
  

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• OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
  

  mac openbsd
  

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• A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9, part 1: Decoding Dolby
  

  android security
  

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• MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes
  

  databases
  

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• To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Integration tests are best tests
  

  go testing
  

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