The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No, Cloudflare's Matrix server isn't an earnest project
  

  distributed vibecoding
  

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• Solving Fossil's ASCII art CAPTCHA in 171 characters
  

  security
  

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• 10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective
  

  wasm
  

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• Email experiments: filtering out external images
  

  email
  

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• Backseat Software
  

  design
  

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• How AI Impacts Skill Formation
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Coding Is When We’re Least Productive
  

  programming
  

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• Google Disrupts Large Residential Proxy Network
  

  networking security web
  

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• GNU Units
  

  c math
  

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• The Dank Case For Scrolling Window Managers
  

  linux
  

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• Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees
  

  devops distributed release
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• "a bootstrap chain for NixOS which builds the whole system from a small hand-auditable binary seed"
  

  nix security
  

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• 30 years of ReactOS
  

  osdev
  

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• Phantom Obligation
  

  design web
  

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• 9front "GEFS SERVICE PACK 1" released
  

  osdev release
  

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• How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications (2023)
  

  design
  

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• Some notes on starting to use Django
  

  python web
  

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• Ariel OS is a library operating system for secure, memory-safe, low-power Internet of Things, written in Rust
  

  hardware rust
  

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• I still don't understand this SYN attack, but now I can block it easily
  

  networking security
  

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• Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail
  

  freebsd mac
  

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• Why I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0
  

  graphics
  

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• There and Back Again: From Quickstrom to Bombadil
  

  testing web
  

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• Bf-Tree A Modern Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Range Index
  

  compsci databases rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• December in Servo
  

  browsers release
  

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• How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
  

  practices
  

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• e9p - pure Erlang 9p implementation
  

  show erlang
  

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• Firefox & Linux in 2025
  

  browsers linux
  

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• Considering Strictly Monotonic Time
  

  programming
  

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• (Open) Widevine support added to the chromium port
  

  browsers openbsd
  

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• Interfaces and traits in C
  

  c
  

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• Obvious Things C Should Do
  

  c
  

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• Coi - WebAssembly for the Modern Web
  

  wasm web
  

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• modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space
  

  linux
  

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• Why a God Can't Play A Link to the Past
  

  video games
  

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• Maintaining shadow branches for GitHub PRs
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Lobsters Blog Carnival Announcement
  

  event
  

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• Your App Subscription Is Now My Weekend Project
  

  vibecoding
  

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• An adversarial coding test
  

  security
  

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• Don't Trip[wire] Yourself: Testing Error Recovery in Zig
  

  testing zig
  

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• Hate is a strong word, but I really really really don’t like Windows 11
  

  windows
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.93.0
  

  release rust
  

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• FSNotes 7 - Remarkable fast plain text notes
  

  editors ios mac
  

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• Vibecoding #2
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey
  

  go
  

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• Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
  

  law web
  

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• SSH has no Host header
  

  networking
  

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• Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines
  

  security
  

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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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