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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Curl removes all calls to strcpy
  

  c practices
  

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• loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux
  

  linux windows
  

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• FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
  

  freebsd networking
  

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• The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
  

  web
  

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• Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv?
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Git's HTTP server side design does not scale
  

  devops
  

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• How to Ruin All of Package Management
  

  practices security
  

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• Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word
  

  plt
  

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• Glamorous Christmas: Bringing Charm to Ruby
  

  go ruby
  

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• Replacing python-dateutil to remove six
  

  python
  

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• 1ML for non-specialists: introduction
  

  plt
  

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• Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse
  

  linux systemd
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 27, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• How uv got so fast
  

  performance
  

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• TIL: serde's borrowing can be treacherous
  

  rust
  

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• Are Two Heads Better Than One?
  

  math
  

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• Writing an NES emulator in Haskell
  

  haskell retrocomputing
  

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• I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13
  

  culture hardware
  

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• Microsoft Is Finally Killing RC4
  

  security
  

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• Python 3.15’s interpreter for Windows x86-64 should hopefully be 15% faster
  

  performance python
  

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• When a driver challenges the kernel's assumptions
  

  hardware openbsd
  

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• One formula that demystifies 3D graphics
  

  video education graphics
  

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• The Algebra of Loans in Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Ancient Greek geometry
  

  design games math
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
  

  plt vibecoding
  

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• I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants
  

  practices
  

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• Debian’s git transition
  

  linux vcs
  

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• I Program on the Subway
  

  programming
  

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• Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
  

  debugging
  

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• What’s new in Python 3.15
  

  python
  

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• Lua 5.5 Released
  

  lua release
  

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• ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun
  

  programming
  

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• Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java
  

  compilers emacs java
  

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• An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker
  

  linux
  

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• Inverse parentheses
  

  plt
  

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• The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
  

  retrocomputing
  

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