The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reliable Signals of Honest Intent
  

  vibecoding
  

  Comments
• FOSS for digital sovereignty in the EU
  

  law
  

  Comments
• I Made Zig Compute 33 Million Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required
  

  performance zig
  

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• I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote a new file format
  

  performance
  

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• So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations?
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• Rust's standard library on the GPU
  

  graphics rust
  

  Comments
• Nested Code Fences in Markdown
  

  practices
  

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• The Jule Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• Little Sound Dj
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Skip Is Now Free and Open Source
  

  android ios swift
  

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• Building a javascript runtime in one month
  

  javascript
  

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• Why not tail recursion?
  

  plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is Zig so Cool?
  

  zig
  

  Comments
• Modern Java
  

  java
  

  Comments
• HTTP RateLimit headers
  

  api web
  

  Comments
• Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
  

  law vibecoding
  

  Comments
• Glasgow Interface Explorer Code of Conduct
  

  culture practices
  

  Comments
• The people who built Wikipedia, technically (2021)
  

  culture historical
  

  Comments
• Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news
  

  go retrocomputing
  

  Comments
• OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
  

  mac openbsd
  

  Comments
• A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9, part 1: Decoding Dolby
  

  android security
  

  Comments
• MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes
  

  databases
  

  Comments
• To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Integration tests are best tests
  

  go testing
  

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

• Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
  

  vibecoding
  

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• jj tug
  

  vcs
  

  Comments
• OpenChaos.dev
  

  art
  

  Comments
• LLVM: The bad parts
  

  compilers
  

  Comments
• 80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3]
  

  programming
  

  Comments
• Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer
  

  retrocomputing windows
  

  Comments
• Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
  

  video linux
  

  Comments
• A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language
  

  performance plt
  

  Comments
• annote: Writing java using only annotations
  

  satire
  

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• I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It's Faster)
  

  databases performance
  

  Comments
• Continuous Snapshotting Filesystem
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well
  

  finance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026?
  

  linux
  

  Comments
• Saying goodbye to the servers at our physical datacenter
  

  historical
  

  Comments
• KDE onboarding is good now
  

  programming
  

  Comments
• Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing
  

  retrocomputing
  

  Comments
• Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp
  

  lisp vibecoding
  

  Comments
• JavaScript engines zoo
  

  javascript
  

  Comments
• Street Fighter II, The World Warrier (2021)
  

  games historical
  

  Comments
• Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free?
  

  c c++ rust
  

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• Maybe Comments SHOULD Explain 'What' (2017)
  

  practices programming
  

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• How I browse the web in 2026
  

  web
  

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• Enterprise Integration Patterns: The Routing Slip
  

  api compsci distributed elixir erlang networking
  

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• minikv: A little KV store implementation in OCaml to practice DB systems things
  

  databases ml
  

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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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