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 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 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
  

  Comments
• 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 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is
  

  programming
  

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• Where are all the low-level JITs?
  

  ask compilers performance
  

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• A4 Paper Stories
  

  math
  

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• GoTHub SSH Signup
  

  openbsd vcs
  

  Comments
• PostgreSQL 18 RETURNING Enhancements: A Game Changer for Modern Applications
  

  databases
  

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• Adding insular script like it's 1626
  

  a11y graphics
  

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• XMPP and metadata
  

  networking privacy
  

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• This Month in Redox - December 2025
  

  osdev rust
  

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• The most popular Go dependency is…
  

  go
  

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• Diffs - JS library for rendering diffs
  

  javascript
  

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• Gemini Protocol Stats
  

  networking
  

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• Software craftsmanship is dead
  

  culture
  

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