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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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 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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