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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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 22, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• You Can't Opt-Out of Accessibility
  

  a11y rant
  

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• Tag proposal: decentralization
  

  meta
  

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• Ruby's website got an overhaul
  

  design ruby
  

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• Go feature: Modernized go fix
  

  go
  

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• I spent a week without IPv4 to understand IPv6 transition mechanisms
  

  networking
  

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• The atomic time scale at NIST Boulder has failed
  

  devops networking
  

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• How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers
  

  web
  

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• dumbphone journey -- eight month update
  

  philosophy privacy
  

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• romforth: Ultra Portable, Small, Baremetal Forth for various processors
  

  concatenative
  

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• Granule, a statically-typed linear functional language with graded modal types
  

  plt
  

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• ARIN IPv4 misissue incident
  

  devops networking
  

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• Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers
  

  go
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 19, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• TOML 1.1.0 released
  

  programming release
  

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• Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Maintaining an open source software during Hacktoberfest
  

  event practices rust
  

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• Microsoft quietly kills IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot
  

  vibecoding vscode
  

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• Dear ACM, you're doing AI wrong but you can still get it right
  

  vibecoding
  

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• qjp - turn any json file into a quick TUI menu
  

  linux unix
  

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• OBS Studio Gets A New Renderer: How OBS Adopted Metal
  

  performance
  

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• Log level 'error' should mean that something needs to be fixed
  

  devops
  

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• Please Just Try HTMX
  

  rant web
  

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• What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?
  

  databases
  

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• Short-Circuiting Correlated Subqueries in SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• Hardware-Attested Nix Builds
  

  hardware nix security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 17, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• i'm just having fun
  

  art person
  

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• "Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
  

  security
  

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• November in Servo: monthly releases, context menus, parallel CSS parsing, and more
  

  browsers
  

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• Writing a blatant Telegram clone using Qt, QML and Rust. And C++
  

  show c++ rust
  

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• Radicle: peer-to-peer collaboration with Git (2024)
  

  rust vcs
  

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• D-Bus is a disgrace to the Linux desktop
  

  linux rant
  

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• "Are you the one?" is free money
  

  math
  

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• No Graphics API
  

  graphics
  

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• TLA+ modeling tips
  

  distributed formalmethods
  

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• Rust GCC backend: Why and how
  

  compilers rust
  

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• Torvalds On Linux Security Modules
  

  linux security
  

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• ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server
  

  python release
  

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