The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• People cannot "just pay attention" to (boring, routine) things
  

  cogsci
  

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• Are arrays functions?
  

  plt
  

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• Everything Wrong with Material 3 Expressive
  

  android design
  

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• The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
  

  css rant web
  

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• Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14)
  

  linux
  

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• Writing First, Tooling Second
  

  culture
  

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• My thoughts on Gas Town after 10,000 hours of Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• river-classic: river 0.3.x forever
  

  linux
  

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• A Tale of UDP tracking: Hytale server auto stop and start with systemd
  

  systemd
  

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• Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm
  

  devops nix
  

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• air traffic control: the IBM 9020
  

  historical
  

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• The Only Two Markup Languages
  

  compsci
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
  

  vibecoding
  

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• jQuery 4.0.0 Released
  

  javascript web
  

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• How the Lobsters front page works
  

  programming
  

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• Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains
  

  linux security
  

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• A Social Filesystem
  

  distributed programming web
  

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• How Many Pixels Do You Really Need?
  

  historical
  

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• some C habits I employ for the modern day
  

  c practices
  

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• Designated Initializers, the best feature of C++20
  

  c c++
  

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• If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969
  

  programming
  

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• The Gnome Village
  

  erlang practices
  

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• More HTTP/3 focus, one backend less
  

  web
  

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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 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is Zig so Cool?
  

  zig
  

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• Modern Java
  

  java
  

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• HTTP RateLimit headers
  

  api web
  

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• Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
  

  law vibecoding
  

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• Glasgow Interface Explorer Code of Conduct
  

  culture practices
  

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• The people who built Wikipedia, technically (2021)
  

  culture historical
  

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• Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news
  

  go retrocomputing
  

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• OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
  

  mac openbsd
  

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• A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9, part 1: Decoding Dolby
  

  android security
  

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• MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes
  

  databases
  

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• To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Integration tests are best tests
  

  go testing
  

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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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