The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
  

  vim
  

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• A Website To End All Websites
  

  web
  

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• 6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available
  

  networking security
  

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• ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
  

  graphics visualization
  

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• smalloc: a simple memory allocator
  

  rust
  

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• kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
  

  plt
  

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• READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust
  

  linux rust
  

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• I hotreload Rust and so can you
  

  rust
  

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• Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision
  

  rust
  

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• Cutting LLM token Usage by ~80% using REPL driven document analysis
  

  lisp programming vibecoding
  

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• Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026
  

  design
  

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• What are your favorite drawing libraries?
  

  ask visualization
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Just the Browser
  

  browsers privacy
  

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• Why We Don't Use AI
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Servo 2025 Stats
  

  browsers
  

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• Bevy 0.18
  

  games release rust
  

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• Interactive eBPF playground
  

  show linux
  

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• How a 40-Line Fix Eliminated a 400x Performance Gap
  

  performance
  

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• Rust at Volvo Cars
  

  video rust
  

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• TruffleRuby 33 is Released
  

  release ruby
  

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• Scrollbars in Scrollbars
  

  satire web
  

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• The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar
  

  culture
  

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• SelfCI - a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI
  

  show release
  

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• My Opinion on Spelling Run Time vs. Run-time vs. Runtime
  

  culture
  

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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 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• &&&&&&&&&&&&&&str
  

  performance rust
  

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• European Commission issues call for evidence on open source
  

  law
  

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• jujutsu v0.37.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• A data model for Git
  

  vcs
  

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• Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs
  

  hardware
  

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• How Terminals Work
  

  unix
  

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• Celeste & TowerFall Physics
  

  games
  

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• I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine)
  

  devops
  

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• jxl-rs merged into Chromium
  

  browsers
  

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• I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)
  

  video games
  

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• HTML parsers in Portland
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• Clang Hardening Cheat Sheet - Ten Years Later
  

  c++ compilers security
  

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