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 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
  

  security
  

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• GNU Guix 1.5.0 released
  

  nix
  

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• AGENTS.md as a dark signal
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
  

  networking performance vibecoding
  

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• What has Docker become?
  

  devops
  

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• Selectively Disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1
  

  networking
  

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• We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder
  

  games
  

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• Explainer: Tree-sitter vs. LSP
  

  editors programming
  

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• remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk with systemd initrd on Arch
  

  linux systemd
  

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• The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly
  

  compilers lisp wasm
  

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• CTA Hierarchy in the Wild
  

  design
  

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• Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly
  

  lisp wasm
  

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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 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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