The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• AI tribalism
  

  vibecoding
  

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• I Was Right About ATProto Key Management
  

  distributed
  

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• Home router recommendations
  

  ask networking
  

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• The Value of Things
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing
  

  design
  

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• Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires
  

  hardware
  

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• Welcome to Town Al-Gasr
  

  satire vibecoding
  

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• Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity
  

  nix
  

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• I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog
  

  web
  

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• MikroTik first look and getting started
  

  networking
  

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• The IndieWeb and Small web
  

  culture
  

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• Welcome to the "Email Expiration Date" initiative
  

  email
  

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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
  

  Comments
• 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 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
  

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• OpenChaos.dev
  

  art
  

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• LLVM: The bad parts
  

  compilers
  

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

  programming
  

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

  retrocomputing windows
  

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• Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
  

  video linux
  

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• A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language
  

  performance plt
  

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• annote: Writing java using only annotations
  

  satire
  

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

  databases performance
  

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• Continuous Snapshotting Filesystem
  

  linux
  

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• The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well
  

  finance
  

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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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