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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 07, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• go.sum Is Not a Lockfile
  

  go
  

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• Why Markdown emphasis fails in CJK: A deep dive into CommonMark's delimiter rules
  

  design web
  

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• The Best Line Length is 88
  

  programming
  

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• There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout
  

  networking security
  

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• I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)
  

  performance programming
  

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• Easy (Horizontal Scrollbar) Fixes for Your Blog CSS
  

  css
  

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• Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is your Type?
  

  c c++ rust
  

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• Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml
  

  ml
  

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• A field guide to sandboxes for AI
  

  security
  

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• Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand
  

  elm plt
  

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• so, you want to chunk really fast?
  

  performance
  

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• I switched from VSCode to Zed
  

  editors vscode
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
  

  design ios mac
  

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• Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026
  

  email security
  

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• How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
  

  culture vcs
  

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• 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
  

  practices
  

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• Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
  

  databases
  

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• Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1
  

  hardware reversing
  

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• Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them
  

  rust
  

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• Go 1.26 interactive tour
  

  go
  

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• Utopian Scholastic
  

  philosophy
  

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• 4 Ways to Improve A Perfect Join Algorithm
  

  databases
  

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• Decorative Cryptography
  

  cryptography security
  

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• CheriBSD: FreeBSD that takes advantage of CHERI
  

  freebsd osdev security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Who's Hiring? Q1 2026
  

  job
  

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• Why I switched away from Zig to C3
  

  c programming zig
  

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• Was it really a Billion Dollar Mistake?
  

  compilers plt programming
  

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• The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network
  

  networking security
  

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• State of the Server 2026
  

  linux web
  

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• Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11
  

  video performance
  

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• How HTML changes in ePub
  

  web
  

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• Bespoke software is the future
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Is tree-sitter good enough? (2022)
  

  compilers
  

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• Destination Driven Compilation
  

  compilers lisp
  

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• Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object?
  

  c c++ rust
  

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• A Comment-Preserving Cabal Parser
  

  haskell
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 31, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Curl removes all calls to strcpy
  

  c practices
  

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• loss32: let's build a Win32/Linux
  

  linux windows
  

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• FediMeteo: How a Tiny €4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands
  

  freebsd networking
  

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• The Silicon Valley Stack Doesn’t Work Here: Why Africa Will Lead the Post-Bloat Web
  

  web
  

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• Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv?
  

  performance ruby
  

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• Git's HTTP server side design does not scale
  

  devops
  

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• How to Ruin All of Package Management
  

  practices security
  

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• Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word
  

  plt
  

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• Glamorous Christmas: Bringing Charm to Ruby
  

  go ruby
  

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• Replacing python-dateutil to remove six
  

  python
  

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• 1ML for non-specialists: introduction
  

  plt
  

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• Restarting systemd services on sustained CPU abuse
  

  linux systemd
  

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