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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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 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Bad Dye Job
  

  design mac person
  

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• More assorted notes on Liquid Glass (2025)
  

  design mac
  

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• Text-based web browsers
  

  browsers
  

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• AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security
  

  python
  

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• How to stick with your projects, even when they're janky
  

  video clojure compilers practices
  

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• Building a High-End AI Desktop
  

  hardware vibecoding
  

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• Date is out, Temporal is in
  

  javascript web
  

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• Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging
  

  security vibecoding
  

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• The hidden cost of PostgreSQL arrays
  

  databases
  

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• Your CLI's completion should know what options you've already typed
  

  javascript programming
  

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• HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
  

  a11y design mac
  

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• WhatsApp is untrustable
  

  security
  

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• we rolled our own documentation site
  

  web
  

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• The rise (and future fall) of Discord (2024)
  

  culture historical
  

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• Who are people currently using as hosting providers?
  

  ask web
  

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• Rethinking Helix
  

  editors vim
  

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• Three Inverse Laws of Robotics
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The coolest feature in Python 3.14
  

  debugging devops python
  

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• A Typical PDF
  

  programming security
  

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• Turntiles, an NYT style word game I made for my parents
  

  games web
  

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• How to Make a Damn Website
  

  web
  

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• Anthropic blocks third-party tools using Claude Code OAuth tokens
  

  vibecoding
  

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