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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• A SOLID Load of Bull
  

  programming
  

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• What are some interesting projects that you've done this year?
  

  ask programming
  

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• A vulnerability in libsodium
  

  cryptography
  

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• Mastodon Stories for systemd v259
  

  systemd
  

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• Fixing a Buffer Overflow in UNIX v4 Like It's 1973
  

  unix
  

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• Why we trust strangers’ open source more than our colleagues’
  

  practices programming
  

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• Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System
  

  video hardware rust
  

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• Using The Corne Split Keyboard For Half A Year
  

  hardware
  

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• What I've Learned Writing Gleam
  

  gleam
  

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• Make-shift shebangs for Go
  

  go unix
  

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• Memory Safety Is …
  

  plt
  

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• Building a React App with Formally Verified State
  

  formalmethods vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What an unprocessed photo looks like
  

  graphics
  

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• Parsing Advances
  

  plt
  

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• LLMs Are Not Fun
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Second Great Error Model Convergence
  

  plt programming
  

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• My First Meshtastic Network
  

  hardware
  

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• You can make up HTML tags
  

  a11y web
  

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• Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers should be enough for anybody
  

  performance scaling
  

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• Garbage collection in Rust got a little better
  

  rust
  

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• Static Allocation with Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Huge binaries
  

  assembly
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Rust Errors Without Dependencies
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C?
  

  assembly performance rust
  

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• Arcan 0.7.1 – Minutes To Midnight
  

  osdev release
  

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• pre-commit hooks are fundamentally broken
  

  vcs
  

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• Play the Monty Hall game
  

  games math
  

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• 39C3: Power Cycles Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Simplifying the build process for vst3-rs
  

  rust
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• This PNG will show different version if you open it in Chrome than in Safari
  

  graphics
  

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• Show: Twine - A tool to dynamically trace calls in production Elixir systems
  

  show elixir
  

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• Automating What Backblaze Lifecycle Rules Don't Do Instantly
  

  devops linux nix systemd
  

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• QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop Brings QNX 8.0 To A Wayland + Xfce Desktop
  

  osdev
  

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• From Intent to Proof: Dafny Verification for Web Apps
  

  formalmethods
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
  

  performance programming vcs
  

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• Gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025
  

  gleam
  

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• Ruby 4.0.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• ssh tiny.christmas
  

  art
  

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• Newtype Index Pattern In Zig
  

  zig
  

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• phoenix - A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
  

  graphics
  

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• cjanet
  

  c lisp
  

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• The HTML Elements Time Forgot
  

  historical web
  

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• (My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)
  

  games linux
  

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• Avoid mini-frameworks
  

  programming
  

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• Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
  

  video cryptography distributed math
  

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• Wayback 0.3 Released
  

  linux release
  

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