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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tag Proposal: logic-lang
  

  meta
  

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• Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
  

  debugging zig
  

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• Prompting 101: Show, don’t tell
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How I use Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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• Shell scripts
  

  devops programming
  

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• How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster
  

  performance python
  

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• slidge.im - Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks
  

  networking
  

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• Pulling a New Proof from Knuth’s Fixed-Point Printer
  

  compsci
  

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• Answer Set Programming (2019)
  

  book pdf compsci
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust
  

  show rust vibecoding
  

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• Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months
  

  elixir
  

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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 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I canceled my programming book deal
  

  person
  

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• corroded: Illegal rust
  

  rust satire
  

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• One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household
  

  finance python
  

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• How do you secure access to your self-hosted/homelab services?
  

  ask devops
  

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• Writing Windows 95 software in 2025
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad
  

  historical unix
  

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• What are you planning to learn in 2026?
  

  ask practices
  

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• 2025: The year in LLMs
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released
  

  c release
  

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• Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI
  

  c++
  

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• Statically Linking PipeWire
  

  linux
  

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• Why Object of Arrays (SoA pattern) beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance rabbit hole
  

  javascript performance
  

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