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 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 30, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What an unprocessed photo looks like
  

  graphics
  

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• Parsing Advances
  

  plt
  

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• LLMs Are Not Fun
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The Second Great Error Model Convergence
  

  plt programming
  

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• My First Meshtastic Network
  

  hardware
  

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• You can make up HTML tags
  

  a11y web
  

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• Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers should be enough for anybody
  

  performance scaling
  

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• Garbage collection in Rust got a little better
  

  rust
  

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• Static Allocation with Zig
  

  zig
  

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• Huge binaries
  

  assembly
  

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• What are you doing this week?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Rust Errors Without Dependencies
  

  rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 26, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Package managers keep using git as a database, it never works out
  

  performance programming vcs
  

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• Gleam v1.14 - the happy holidays release 2025
  

  gleam
  

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• Ruby 4.0.0 Released
  

  ruby
  

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• ssh tiny.christmas
  

  art
  

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• Newtype Index Pattern In Zig
  

  zig
  

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• phoenix - A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
  

  graphics
  

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• cjanet
  

  c lisp
  

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• The HTML Elements Time Forgot
  

  historical web
  

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• (My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)
  

  games linux
  

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• Avoid mini-frameworks
  

  programming
  

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• Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025
  

  video cryptography distributed math
  

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• Wayback 0.3 Released
  

  linux release
  

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

• Your favorite pieces of technical writing?
  

  ask meta
  

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• I'm returning my Framework 16
  

  hardware
  

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• They made me an offer I couldn't refuse (1997)
  

  historical mac
  

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• cpu: cpu command in Go, inspired by the Plan 9 cpu command
  

  go osdev
  

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• An initial analysis of the discovered Unix V4 tape
  

  retrocomputing unix
  

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• folder.zone: Share end-to-end encrypted folders live
  

  show cryptography web
  

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• Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode
  

  c unix
  

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• dirlock
  

  linux
  

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• Reproducing the NixOS 25.11 Minimal Installation ISO
  

  nix
  

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• Vigil - A clean, fast build watcher for Zig (inspired by Bacon for Rust)
  

  show zig
  

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• The wonder of MSBuild
  

  dotnet
  

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• How and why I moved from Apple Services to my own server
  

  linux
  

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