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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 20, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Go ahead, self-host Postgres
  

  databases devops
  

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• how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick
  

  web
  

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• WireGuard® implementation written in Rust
  

  cryptography networking rust
  

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• I got hacked, my server started mining Monero this morning
  

  devops security
  

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• dogalog: Prolog-based livecoding music environment
  

  art vibecoding
  

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• Help my website is too small
  

  satire web
  

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• Making the Most of Bit Arrays
  

  gleam
  

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• Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how?
  

  ai
  

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• Booleans don't exist in Ruby (2022)
  

  ruby
  

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• headson: head/tail for structured data - summarize/preview JSON/YAML and source code
  

  rust
  

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• Remote code execution via ND6 Router Advertisements
  

  freebsd security
  

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• Partial inlining
  

  compilers performance
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 28, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Migrating The Zig Organization from GitHub to Codeberg
  

  rant zig
  

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• Chat Control: EU lawmakers finally agree on the voluntary scanning of your private chats
  

  cryptography law privacy
  

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• Lazy Linearity for a Core Functional Language
  

  compilers plt
  

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• Generalized Worley Noise
  

  graphics
  

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• Building a 64-bit OS from Scratch with Claude Code
  

  osdev vibecoding
  

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• A Very Fast 64–Bit Date Algorithm: 30-40% faster
  

  math performance
  

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• URL in C Puzzle
  

  c programming
  

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• Why Strong Consistency?
  

  databases distributed
  

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• Lowtype: Elegant types in Ruby
  

  ruby
  

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• How to get hired in 2025
  

  satire vibecoding
  

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• Graph Algorithms in Rayon
  

  rust
  

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• s&box now open source
  

  games
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on October 25, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Typst 0.14: Now accessible
  

  a11y release
  

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• Modern perfect hashing
  

  compsci
  

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• 4 Unconventional Ways to Cast in Typescript
  

  javascript plt
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.17
  

  hardware linux reversing
  

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• Why /dev/null Is an ACID Compliant Database
  

  databases satire
  

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• Length-extension attacks are still a thing
  

  cryptography
  

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• html-is-a-tree
  

  lisp
  

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• OpenBSD C/C++ Toolchain in the Browser
  

  openbsd wasm
  

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• Luau’s Performance
  

  lua performance
  

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• How to Avoid Fighting Rust Borrow Checker
  

  rust
  

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• Zram Performance Analysis
  

  linux performance
  

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• Tuckr - Stow alternative with symlink checking
  

  devops rust
  

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