HN&&LO monthly stats for January 2026

  Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System media.ccc.de  hardware rust video

First seen on Hacker News as Xous: A pure Rust rethink of the embedded operating system (39c3) [video] on 29 Dec 2025, submitted by sxzygz. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System, submitted by fcbsd. Score 35, comments 2  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System [video], submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 11 days later as Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System [video], submitted by PaulHoule. Score 3, comments 0

  Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized language model small enough to run on an 8-bit Z80 processor github.com  ai retrocomputing

First seen on Hacker News as Show HN: Z80-μLM, a 'Conversational AI' That Fits in 40KB on 29 Dec 2025, submitted by quesomaster9000. Score 491, comments 117  🔥   ⭐(2)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as Z80-μLM is a 2-bit quantized language model small enough to run on an 8-bit Z80 processor, submitted by deejayy. Score 13, comments 1

  The Second Great Error Model Convergence matklad.github.io  plt programming

First seen on Hacker News as The Second Great Error Model Convergence on 29 Dec 2025, submitted by ingve. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 6h01 later as The Second Great Error Model Convergence, submitted by carlana. Score 70, comments 25  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 11h22 later as The Second Great Error Model Convergence, submitted by kartikarti. Score 8, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as The Second Great Error Model Convergence, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as The Second Great Error Model Convergence, submitted by thunderbong. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 28 days later as The Second Great Error Model Convergence, submitted by surprisetalk. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com  historical osdev

First seen on Hacker News as The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M on 29 Dec 2025, submitted by ingve. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 15h07 later as The Late Arrival of 16-Bit CP/M – By Nemanja Trifunovic, submitted by rbanffy. Score 6, comments 0   ⭐(9)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 6 days later as The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M, submitted by fanf. Score 12, comments 2

  1ML for non-specialists: introduction pithlessly.github.io  plt

First seen on Lobste.rs as 1ML for non-specialists: introduction on 29 Dec 2025, submitted by icefox. Score 14, comments 7

Then appeared on Hacker News 19h54 later as 1M for Non-Specialists, submitted by fanf2. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3 days later as 1M for Non-Specialists: Introduction, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0   ⭐(12)

  Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv? tenderlovemaking.com  performance ruby

First seen on Lobste.rs as Can Bundler Be as Fast as uv? on 29 Dec 2025, submitted by Sinjo. Score 48, comments 12  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 14m later as Can Bundler Be as Fast as Uv?, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Can Bundler Be as Fast as Uv?, submitted by birdculture. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Can Bundler be as fast as uv?, submitted by ibobev. Score 357, comments 99  🔥   ⭐(2)

  corroded: Illegal rust github.com  rust satire

First seen on Hacker News as Corroded: Rust that's so unsafe it should be illegal on 29 Dec 2025, submitted by corrode2711. Score 10, comments 0  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h22 later as Corroded: Illegal Rust, submitted by WD-42. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h26 later as Corroded – Ruining Rust, submitted by ravenical. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 18h18 later as Corroded – Illegal Rust, submitted by miniBill. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 17h14 later as corroded: Illegal rust, submitted by ahobson. Score 69, comments 8  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 9h14 later as Corroded: Illegal Rust, submitted by christoph-heiss. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as Corroded: Illegal Rust, submitted by csmantle. Score 166, comments 54  🔥   ⭐(6)

Tuesday, 30 Dec 2025

  Velox is a port of Tauri to Swift github.com  swift

First seen on Lobste.rs as Velox is a port of Tauri to Swift on 30 Dec 2025, submitted by kevinc. Score 7, comments 7

Then appeared on Hacker News 38m later as Velox is a port of Tauri to Swift, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 21 days later as Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza, submitted by wahnfrieden. Score 3, comments 0   ⭐(3)

  Making end-to-end encrypted AI chat feel like logging in confer.to  vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as Making end-to-end encrypted AI chat feel like logging in on 30 Dec 2025, submitted by arkadiyt. Score 9, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Making end-to-end encrypted AI chat feel like logging in, submitted by Vinnl. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as Making end-to-end encrypted AI chat feel like logging in, submitted by manuel. Score 3, comments 7 controversial

  NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001) tuxnes.sourceforge.net  games retrocomputing

First seen on Lobste.rs as NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001) on 30 Dec 2025, submitted by djx. Score 10, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 56m later as NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001), submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 25 days later as NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001), submitted by PaulHoule. Score 4, comments 0

  WebUSB Unpinner: network analysis for the masses reversing.works  android reversing security

First seen on Lobste.rs as WebUSB Unpinner: network analysis for the masses on 30 Dec 2025, submitted by untitaker. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as WebUSB Unpinner: network analysis for the masses, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 13 days later as WebUSB Unpinner: network analysis for the masses, submitted by chobeat. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon media.ccc.de  linux video

First seen on Hacker News as 39C3 Asahi Linux – Porting Linux to Apple Silicon [video] on 30 Dec 2025, submitted by rekl. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 11 days later as Asahi Linux - Porting Linux to Apple Silicon, submitted by hugoarnal. Score 71, comments 6  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 7h35 later as Asahi Linux – Porting Linux to Apple Silicon [video], submitted by tensegrist. Score 3, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Asahi Linux – Porting Linux to Apple Silicon [video], submitted by birdculture. Score 23, comments 1  🔥

  Intro to Foundation DB via a Distributed Mutex jander.land  databases distributed performance

First seen on Hacker News as Intro to Foundation DB via a Distributed Mutex on 30 Dec 2025, submitted by janderland. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 4h12 later as Intro to Foundation DB via a Distributed Mutex, submitted by surprisetalk. Score 3, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as Intro to Foundation DB via a Distributed Mutex, submitted by enz. Score 2, comments 0

  Desktop Classic System — Spacial computing hearkening back to classic Mac OS mycophobia.org  linux retrocomputing

First seen on Lobste.rs as Desktop Classic System — Spacial computing hearkening back to classic Mac OS on 30 Dec 2025, submitted by alexandria. Score 13, comments 4

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Desktop Classic System – Spacial computing hearkening back to classic Mac OS, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 20 days later as Desktop Classic System – Spacial computing hearkening back to classic Mac OS, submitted by PaulHoule. Score 2, comments 1

  The GDB JIT interface bernsteinbear.com  compilers debugging

First seen on Hacker News as The GDB JIT Interface on 30 Dec 2025, submitted by tekknolagi. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 19h08 later as The GDB JIT Interface, submitted by ibobev. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as The GDB JIT interface, submitted by Shorden. Score 17, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 14 days later as The GDB JIT Interface, submitted by surprisetalk. Score 4, comments 0   ⭐(10)

  Attention Is Bayesian Inference medium.com  ai

First seen on Hacker News as Attention Is Bayesian Inference on 30 Dec 2025, submitted by samwillis. Score 8, comments 0   ⭐(7)

Then appeared on Hacker News 12h08 later as Attention Is Bayesian Inference, submitted by plurby. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 7 days later as Attention Is Bayesian Inference, submitted by ajessejiryudavis. Score 5, comments 0

Wednesday, 31 Dec 2025

  What I've Learned Writing Gleam nohzafk.github.io  gleam

First seen on Lobste.rs as What I've Learned Writing Gleam on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by briankung. Score 35, comments 9  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 4h01 later as What I've Learned Writing Gleam, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as What I've Learned Writing Gleam, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI herbsutter.com  c++

First seen on Hacker News as Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by ingve. Score 64, comments 62  🔥   ⭐(30)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI, submitted by sp6370. Score 33, comments 57 controversial  🔥

  Mastodon Stories for systemd v259 0pointer.net  systemd

First seen on Lobste.rs as Mastodon Stories for systemd v259 on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by laktak. Score 39, comments 6  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Mastodon Stories for Systemd v259, submitted by laktak. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Mastodon Stories for Systemd v259, submitted by birdculture. Score 6, comments 0

  The Cost of a Closure in C, The Rest thephd.dev  c plt

First seen on Hacker News as The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by ingve. Score 2, comments 0   ⭐(11)

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h01 later as The Cost of a Closure in C, the Rest, submitted by gsky. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 15h05 later as The Cost of a Closure in C: The Rest, submitted by ingve. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2 days later as The Cost of a Closure in C, The Rest, submitted by icefox. Score 11, comments 0

  A SOLID Load of Bull loup-vaillant.fr  programming

First seen on Lobste.rs as A SOLID Load of Bull on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by Loup-Vaillant. Score 116, comments 60  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as A Solid Load of Bull, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 15, comments 0  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 22h21 later as A Solid Load of Bull, submitted by enz. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 17h55 later as A Solid Load of Bull, submitted by signa11. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 4 days later as A Solid Load of Bull, submitted by Tomte. Score 3, comments 0

  Fixing a Buffer Overflow in UNIX v4 Like It's 1973 sigma-star.at  unix

First seen on Hacker News as Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973 on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by Deeg9rie9usi. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs less than a minute later as Fixing a Buffer Overflow in UNIX v4 Like It's 1973, submitted by rw-rw-rw-. Score 41, comments 7  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973, submitted by gdgghhhhh. Score 6, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3 days later as Buffer overflow in /bin/su from Unix v4, submitted by jesprenj. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973, submitted by vzaliva. Score 160, comments 41  🔥   ⭐(3)

  Detect Go’s silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint blog.trailofbits.com  go

First seen on Hacker News as Detect Go's silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by conslit. Score 1, comments 1

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 5 days later as Detect Go’s silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint, submitted by olegkovalov. Score 5, comments 0

  Going immutable on macOS carette.xyz  mac nix

First seen on Hacker News as Going immutable on macOS, a usage of Nix-Darwin on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by LucidLynx. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin, submitted by weird_trousers. Score 137, comments 77  🔥   ⭐(3)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 13 days later as Going immutable on macOS, submitted by alurm. Score 19, comments 12  🔥

  I canceled my programming book deal austinhenley.com  person

First seen on Hacker News as I canceled my book deal on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by azhenley. Score 603, comments 349  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 5h52 later as I canceled my programming book deal, submitted by azhenley. Score 85, comments 37  🔥

  What Happened To WebAssembly emnudge.dev  wasm

First seen on Hacker News as What Happened to WebAssembly on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by emnudge. Score 2, comments 1

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 7 days later as What Happened To WebAssembly, submitted by EmNudge. Score 110, comments 79  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 7h53 later as What Happened to WebAssembly, submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 10h34 later as What happened to WebAssembly, submitted by enz. Score 343, comments 311  🔥   ⭐(1)

  4 Ways to Improve A Perfect Join Algorithm remy.wang  databases

First seen on Hacker News as How to Improve a Perfect Join Algorithm on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by remywang. Score 2, comments 0   ⭐(25)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as 4 Ways to Improve A Perfect Join Algorithm, submitted by pkhuong. Score 23, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 4m later as How to Improve a Perfect Join Algorithm, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Four ways to improve a perfect SQL join algorithm, submitted by fanf2. Score 2, comments 0

  Replay nshipster.com  ios swift

First seen on Lobste.rs as Replay on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by raymii. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 19h06 later as Replay (Swift) record real HTTP traffic, then replay for every subsequent test, submitted by peterspath. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  A silly diffuse shading model lisyarus.github.io  graphics

First seen on Hacker News as A silly diffuse shading model on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by ibobev. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3h33 later as A silly diffuse shading model, submitted by LesleyLai. Score 20, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 18h52 later as A silly diffuse shading model, submitted by ibobev. Score 24, comments 4  🔥   ⭐(12)

  HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad osnews.com  historical unix

First seen on Hacker News as HP-UX hits end-of-life today on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by ecliptik. Score 13, comments 5  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 55m later as HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I’m sad, submitted by classichasclass. Score 43, comments 17  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I'm sad, submitted by notpushkin. Score 7, comments 3  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I'm sad – OSnews, submitted by rbanffy. Score 14, comments 7  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 11h32 later as "HP-UX hits end-of-life today, and I'm sad", submitted by SanjayMehta. Score 39, comments 5  🔥

  Why Object of Arrays (SoA pattern) beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance rabbit hole royalbhati.com  javascript performance

First seen on Lobste.rs as Why Object of Arrays (SoA pattern) beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance rabbit hole on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by aapoalas. Score 24, comments 4  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 10 days later as Why Object of Arrays beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance issue, submitted by howToTestFE. Score 2, comments 0   ⭐(9)

  2025: The year in LLMs simonwillison.net  vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as 2025: The Year in LLMs on 31 Dec 2025, submitted by simonw. Score 909, comments 575  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1h30 later as 2025: The year in LLMs, submitted by mitsuhiko. Score 44, comments 15  🔥

Thursday, 01 Jan 2026

  Bokehlicious Selfies in Python rahulrav.com  programming

First seen on Hacker News as Bokehlicious Selfies in Python (2020) on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by azhenley. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1m later as Bokehlicious Selfies in Python, submitted by azhenley. Score 2, comments 0  💤

  Statically Linking PipeWire gamesbymason.com  linux

First seen on Lobste.rs as Statically Linking PipeWire on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by technetium. Score 37, comments 13  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Statically Linking PipeWire, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 7, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 15h35 later as Statically Linking PipeWire, submitted by 10000truths. Score 4, comments 0

  Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released discourse.imfreedom.org  c release

First seen on Lobste.rs as Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by grim. Score 36, comments 11  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released, submitted by rw_grim. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Pidgin 3.0 Experimental 5 (2.94.0) has been released, submitted by birdculture. Score 4, comments 0

  Freestyle linked lists tricks nullprogram.com  c programming

First seen on Hacker News as Freestyle Linked Lists Tricks on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by ingve. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 4 days later as Freestyle Linked Lists Tricks, submitted by ibobev. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Freestyle Linked Lists Tricks, submitted by signa11. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 8h09 later as Freestyle linked lists tricks, submitted by signal-11. Score 6, comments 5

Then appeared on Hacker News 14 days later as Freestyle Linked Lists Tricks, submitted by mattjhall. Score 2, comments 0

  hindsight: GitHub-style git activity visualizer for terminal github.com  rust

First seen on Hacker News as Show HN: hindsight - GitHub-style Git activity visualizer for terminal on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by chaosprint. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1m later as hindsight: GitHub-style git activity visualizer for terminal, submitted by chaosprint. Score 17, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h54 later as Show HN: Hindsight – GitHub-style Git yearly activity visualizer in terminal, submitted by chaosprint. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 17h57 later as Show HN: Hindsight – GitHub-style Git yearly activity visualizer in terminal, submitted by chaosprint. Score 2, comments 0

  One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household lalitm.com  finance python

First seen on Lobste.rs as One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by lalitm. Score 64, comments 19  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 21h19 later as One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household, submitted by ayi. Score 137, comments 85  🔥   ⭐(3)

  Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check orlp.net  compsci

First seen on Hacker News as Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by g0xA52A2A. Score 3, comments 0   ⭐(23)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 7h39 later as Sorting with Fibonacci Numbers and a Knuth Reward Check, submitted by fanf. Score 13, comments 4

Then appeared on Hacker News 12h34 later as Sorting with Fibonacci numbers, and a Knuth reward check, submitted by fanf2. Score 4, comments 0

  Introducing OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust openworkers.com  rust web

First seen on Hacker News as Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by max_lt. Score 491, comments 148  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 15h09 later as Introducing OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare Workers in Rust, submitted by csomar. Score 13, comments 0

  Rust's most complicated features explained youtube.com  programming rust video

First seen on Hacker News as Rust in one video (hardest features explained) on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by tcfhgj. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3h56 later as Rust's most complicated features explained, submitted by linkdd. Score 3, comments 0

  ACM is Now Fully Open Access acm.org  compsci

First seen on Hacker News as ACM Is Now Open Access on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by leglock. Score 332, comments 48  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 6 days later as ACM is Now Fully Open Access, submitted by hwayne. Score 90, comments 21  🔥

  Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP centamori.com  ai php

First seen on Hacker News as Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by centamiv. Score 93, comments 15  🔥   ⭐(4)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2h43 later as Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) in PHP, submitted by ucirello. Score 7, comments 3

  There is room for imperfect fault isolation pithlessly.github.io  practices

First seen on Lobste.rs as There is room for imperfect fault isolation on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by icefox. Score 2, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as There is room for imperfect fault isolation, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  WireGuard packet relay for NAT traversal github.com  networking

First seen on Hacker News as WireGuard packet relay for NAT traversal on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by progval. Score 2, comments 2

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 18m later as WireGuard packet relay for NAT traversal, submitted by val. Score 16, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Wpex: WireGuard packet relay for NAT traversal, submitted by fanf2. Score 3, comments 0

  Parameter-efficient fine-tuning in tinygrad dxuuu.xyz  ai

First seen on Lobste.rs as Parameter-efficient fine-tuning in tinygrad on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by dxu. Score 7, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3m later as Parameter-efficient fine-tuning in tinygrad, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Using Woodpecker CI to publish site updates bentasker.co.uk  vcs web

First seen on Lobste.rs as Using Woodpecker CI to publish site updates on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by raymii. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Using Woodpecker CI to publish site updates, submitted by jandeboevrie. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Change is the root of all (evil) bugs fhur.me  programming

First seen on Hacker News as Change is the root of all (evil) bugs on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by fernandohur. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 21h45 later as Change is the root of all evil bugs, submitted by TheAnkurTyagi. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as Change is the root of all (evil) bugs, submitted by abnercoimbre. Score 5, comments 6

Then appeared on Hacker News 2h10 later as Change is the root of all (evil) bugs, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages danilafe.com  compilers plt

First seen on Lobste.rs as Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by danilafe. Score 51, comments 11  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages, submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 0

  I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop pcgamer.com  linux

First seen on Hacker News as Linux is good now on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by Vinnl. Score 1158, comments 965  🔥   ⭐(2)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 19h14 later as I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop, submitted by rau. Score 148, comments 71  🔥

  A Website To End All Websites henry.codes  web

First seen on Hacker News as A website to destroy all websites on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by g0xA52A2A. Score 773, comments 384  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 15 days later as A Website To End All Websites, submitted by FedericoSchonborn. Score 72, comments 32  🔥

  Why high-cardinality labels stress metrics systems last9.io  devops

First seen on Hacker News as Why high-cardinality labels stress metrics databases on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by nishantmodak. Score 2, comments 1

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 5h43 later as Why high-cardinality labels stress metrics systems, submitted by prathamesh. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  WebAssembly as a Python extension platform nullprogram.com  python wasm

First seen on Hacker News as WebAssembly as a Python Extension Platform on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by ArmageddonIt. Score 96, comments 4  🔥   ⭐(6)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 19 days later as WebAssembly as a Python extension platform, submitted by spookylukey. Score 5, comments 0

  git-pkgs: explore your dependency history nesbitt.io  vcs

First seen on Hacker News as Git-pkgs: explore your dependency history on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by chmaynard. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as git-pkgs: explore your dependency history, submitted by edwardloveall. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as Git-pkgs: explore your dependency history, submitted by riffraff. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Welcome to Gas Town steve-yegge.medium.com  vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as Welcome to Gas Town on 01 Jan 2026, submitted by gmays. Score 38, comments 10  🔥   ⭐(9)

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h20 later as Welcome to Gas Town, submitted by ingve. Score 13, comments 3  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 18h59 later as Welcome to Gas Town, submitted by bert. Score 9, comments 12 controversial

Friday, 02 Jan 2026

  Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy kyo.iroiro.party  editors emacs

First seen on Lobste.rs as Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by Shorden. Score 32, comments 1  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1h05 later as Extensibility: The "100% Lisp" Fallacy, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 75, comments 16  🔥   ⭐(6)

  Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta seri.tools  release retrocomputing rust windows

First seen on Hacker News as Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by pornel. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 6h58 later as Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta, submitted by calvin. Score 31, comments 7  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Rust9x update: Rust 1.93.0-beta, submitted by birdculture. Score 4, comments 0

  Designing type-safe sync/async mode support in TypeScript hackers.pub  api javascript plt

First seen on Hacker News as Designing type-safe sync/async mode support in TypeScript on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by dahlia. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs less than a minute later as Designing type-safe sync/async mode support in TypeScript, submitted by hongminhee. Score 12, comments 9

  FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1) rtfm.co.ua  freebsd unix

First seen on Lobste.rs as FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1) on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by setevoy. Score 13, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 1 – configuring ZFS mirror (RAID1), submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 146, comments 49  🔥   ⭐(4)

  Bespoke software is the future fzakaria.com  vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as Bespoke Software Is the Future on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by ingve. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 7h02 later as Bespoke software is the future, submitted by abhin4v. Score 21, comments 32 controversial  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Bespoke Software Is the Future, submitted by birdculture. Score 4, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 7 days later as Bespoke Software Is the Future, submitted by mpweiher. Score 2, comments 0

  Migrating to GTK3 – Re: Factor re.factorcode.org  concatenative graphics

First seen on Hacker News as Migration to gtk3 for the factor GUI-listener on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by ekalugsuak. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 30 days later as Migrating to GTK3 – Re: Factor, submitted by veqq. Score 14, comments 7

  Destination Driven Compilation tailrecursion.com  compilers lisp

First seen on Hacker News as Destination Driven Compilation on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by wooby. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 7h22 later as Destination Driven Compilation, submitted by rxs. Score 21, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 9 days later as DestinationDrivenCompilation, submitted by mpweiher. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  A Comment-Preserving Cabal Parser blog.haskell.org  haskell

First seen on Lobste.rs as A Comment-Preserving Cabal Parser on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by Hecate. Score 17, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as A Comment-Preserving Cabal Parser, submitted by Vosporos. Score 5, comments 0

  Why I switched away from Zig to C3 lowbytefox.dev  c programming zig

First seen on Hacker News as I switched away from Zig to C3 on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by lerno. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 10h17 later as Why I switched away from Zig to C3, submitted by xyproto. Score 51, comments 35  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 15h41 later as I switched away from Zig to C3, submitted by birdculture. Score 4, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 22h44 later as I switched away from Zig to C3, submitted by tempodox. Score 7, comments 0

  My “job” as family admin or Linux rules the house blog.bembel.net  linux

First seen on Lobste.rs as My “job” as family admin or Linux rules the house on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by FedericoSchonborn. Score 15, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as My "job" as family admin or Linux rules the house, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

  Assorted less(1) tips blog.thechases.com  unix

First seen on Lobste.rs as Assorted less(1) tips on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by fs111. Score 76, comments 15  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Assorted less(1) tips, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 228, comments 51  🔥   ⭐(4)

  Lessons from Hash Table Merging gist.github.com  performance

First seen on Hacker News as Lessons from Hash Table Merging on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by attractivechaos. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(7)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 5 days later as Lessons from Hash Table Merging, submitted by knl. Score 9, comments 8

  OpenTTD 15.0 released openttd.org  c++ games release

First seen on Hacker News as OpenTTD 15.0 on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by Tomte. Score 6, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 4h23 later as OpenTTD 15.0 released, submitted by raymii. Score 2, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as OpenTTD 15.0, submitted by natebc. Score 45, comments 1  🔥

  The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network krebsonsecurity.com  networking security

First seen on Hacker News as The Kimwolf Botnet Is Stalking Your Local Network on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 10, comments 0  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 11h34 later as The Kimwolf Botnet Is Stalking Your Local Network, submitted by SamValYlieRcHE2. Score 46, comments 17  🔥   ⭐(21)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 6h26 later as The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network, submitted by laktak. Score 44, comments 2  🔥

  Best stack for a SaaS in 2026 forum.pragmaticentrepreneurs.com  programming web

First seen on Lobste.rs as Best stack for a SaaS in 2026 on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by camilleroux. Score -1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Best Stack for a SaaS in 2026, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  Proving liveness with TLA roscidus.com  formalmethods

First seen on Lobste.rs as Proving liveness with TLA on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by hwayne. Score 9, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 5m later as Proving Liveness with TLA, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h44 later as Proving Liveness with TLA, submitted by ibobev. Score 39, comments 1  🔥   ⭐(5)

  Releasing Fjall 3.0 fjall-rs.github.io  databases release

First seen on Lobste.rs as Releasing Fjall 3.0 on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by emschwartz. Score 35, comments 8  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Releasing Fjall 3.0, submitted by emschwartz. Score 6, comments 3

Then appeared on Hacker News 19h43 later as Releasing Fjall 3.0, LSM-tree embeddable key-value storage engine, submitted by rochoa. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Darktable Styles mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations jssfr.de  graphics

First seen on Hacker News as Show HN: I made presets for Darktable which mimic Fujifilm's Film Simulations on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by jssfr. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3m later as Darktable Styles mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations, submitted by Zash. Score 37, comments 11  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Darktable Styles Mimicing Fujifilm's Film Simulations, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  Intellectual junkyards forester-notes.org  education formalmethods math ml philosophy

First seen on Lobste.rs as Intellectual junkyards on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by janus. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as Intellectual Junkyards, submitted by ysangkok. Score 2, comments 0   ⭐(17)

  Was it really a Billion Dollar Mistake? gingerbill.org  compilers plt programming

First seen on Hacker News as Was It a Billion Dollar Mistake? on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by gingerBill. Score 10, comments 9  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 50m later as Was it really a Billion Dollar Mistake?, submitted by RaphGL. Score 37, comments 54 controversial  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h35 later as Was it really a Billion Dollar Mistake?, submitted by vyrotek. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 9h55 later as Was It really a Billion Dollar Mistake?, submitted by mpweiher. Score 1, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 20h28 later as Was it a billion dollar mistake?, submitted by signa11. Score 59, comments 77 controversial  🔥   ⭐(7)

  WebGPU in p5.js davepagurek.com  javascript web

First seen on Lobste.rs as WebGPU in p5.js on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by ndyg. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 45m later as WebGPU in P5.js, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

  State of the Server 2026 theorangeone.net  linux web

First seen on Lobste.rs as State of the Server 2026 on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by hashemi. Score 27, comments 9  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 34m later as State of the Server 2026, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 10h20 later as State of the Server 2026, submitted by wrxd. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 13h47 later as State of the Server 2026, submitted by lalitmaganti. Score 5, comments 0

  Linux kernel security work kroah.com  linux security

First seen on Hacker News as Linux kernel security work on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by chmaynard. Score 183, comments 96  🔥   ⭐(6)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 12h43 later as Linux kernel security work, submitted by achill. Score 12, comments 0

  How HTML changes in ePub htmhell.dev  web

First seen on Hacker News as HTML Changes in ePub on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by raybb. Score 31, comments 1  🔥   ⭐(17)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 22m later as How HTML changes in ePub, submitted by EmNudge. Score 26, comments 17  🔥

  XPER on the Commodore 64 stonetools.ghost.io  ai historical programming

First seen on Hacker News as Building a rain predictor on a C64 with 1985's "XPER," expert system software on 02 Jan 2026, submitted by ChristopherDrum. Score 7, comments 3  🔥   ⭐(15)

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as XPER on the Commodore 64, submitted by rbanffy. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 14 days later as XPER on the Commodore 64, submitted by calvin. Score 4, comments 0

Saturday, 03 Jan 2026

  2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop xeiaso.net  linux

First seen on Lobste.rs as 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by wezm. Score 2, comments 6

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 811, comments 616  🔥   ⭐(1)

  ORBIT mini-browser for Playdate github.com  browsers

First seen on Hacker News as Show HN: Browser in C and Lua for the Playdate Console on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by remywang. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 16m later as ORBIT mini-browser for Playdate, submitted by classichasclass. Score 3, comments 1

  RubyEvents.org 2025 Wrapped - a look back at the Ruby community's year rubyevents.org  event ruby

First seen on Lobste.rs as RubyEvents.org 2025 Wrapped - a look back at the Ruby community's year on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by marcoroth. Score 7, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as RubyEvents.org 2025 Wrapped – a look back at the Ruby community's year, submitted by marcoroth. Score 3, comments 1

  Verified Model-Based Conformance Testing for Dummies welltyped.systems  formalmethods testing

First seen on Lobste.rs as Verified Model-Based Conformance Testing for Dummies on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by amw-zero. Score 5, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Verified Model-Based Conformance Testing for Dummies, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

  Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11 hackaday.com  performance video

First seen on Hacker News as Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, from Windows XP to Windows 11 on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by anonymousiam. Score 27, comments 4  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1h26 later as Benchmarking Windows Against Itself, From Windows XP To Windows 11, submitted by raymii. Score 21, comments 1

  FreeBSD Home NAS, part 2: Introduction to the PF firewall rtfm.co.ua  freebsd networking security unix

First seen on Lobste.rs as FreeBSD Home NAS, part 2: Introduction to the PF firewall on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by setevoy. Score 13, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as FreeBSD Home NAS, part 2: Introduction to the PF firewall, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 14, comments 0  🔥

  Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot media.ccc.de  hardware reversing video

First seen on Lobste.rs as Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by runxiyu. Score 9, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot [video], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  JavaScript's for-of loops are actually fast waspdev.com  javascript performance

First seen on Hacker News as JavaScript's For-Of Loops Are Fast on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by surprisetalk. Score 3, comments 2   ⭐(7)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2 days later as JavaScript's for-of loops are actually fast, submitted by runxiyu. Score 16, comments 6

  Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object? lukefleed.xyz  c c++ rust

First seen on Hacker News as Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object? on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by lukefleed. Score 6, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1h23 later as Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object?, submitted by lukefleed. Score 55, comments 17  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 9h30 later as Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object?, submitted by _djo_. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 9h34 later as Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object?, submitted by r4um. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 22h17 later as Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What Is an Object?, submitted by lalitmaganti. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h03 later as Who owns the wemory? What is an Object?, submitted by fanf2. Score 2, comments 0

  How I browse the web in 2026 bastiangruber.ca  web

First seen on Hacker News as How I Browse the Web in 2026 on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by recvonline. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1m later as How I browse the web in 2026, submitted by gruberb. Score 23, comments 15  🔥

  Ken Thompson on How A Disk Scheduling Algorithm Became Unix youtube.com  osdev video

First seen on Lobste.rs as Ken Thompson on How A Disk Scheduling Algorithm Became Unix on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by orib. Score 14, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Ken Thompson on How a Disk Scheduling Algorithm Became Unix [video], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 14, comments 2  🔥

  Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing datagubbe.se  retrocomputing

First seen on Hacker News as Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by ingve. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 26m later as Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing, submitted by fro. Score 32, comments 1  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 17h11 later as Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing, submitted by doener. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 11h12 later as Amiga Desktops Worth Seeing, submitted by ibobev. Score 6, comments 0

  Chances are you have fallen for at least one of 10 quantum myths bigthink.com  science

First seen on Hacker News as Quantum myths that must die in the new year [updated for 2026] on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by tikej. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 20h19 later as Chances are you have fallen for at least one of 10 quantum myths, submitted by jaguar. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  High-level is the goal bvisness.me  culture

First seen on Hacker News as High-Level Is the Goal on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by 1317. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as High-level is the goal, submitted by vamolessa. Score 9, comments 18 controversial

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as High-level is the goal. Why should anyone care about low-level programming?, submitted by gessha. Score 1, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 7 days later as High-Level Is the Goal, submitted by tobr. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(3)

  Seven night sky spectacles to watch for in 2026 bbc.com  science

First seen on Lobste.rs as Seven night sky spectacles to watch for in 2026 on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by jaguar. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Seven night sky spectacles to watch for in 2026, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

  Enterprise Integration Patterns: The Routing Slip james-carr.org  api compsci distributed elixir erlang networking

First seen on Hacker News as Enterprise Integration Patterns: The Routing Slip on 03 Jan 2026, submitted by carrja99. Score 5, comments 1

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2m later as Enterprise Integration Patterns: The Routing Slip, submitted by jamescarr. Score 17, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Enterprise Integration Patterns: The Routing Slip, submitted by birdculture. Score 5, comments 0

Sunday, 04 Jan 2026

  Worst Case Optimal Joins: Graph-Join correspondence finnvolkel.com  databases

First seen on Hacker News as Worst Case Optimal Joins: Graph-Join Correspondence on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by eatonphil. Score 27, comments 1  🔥   ⭐(19)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs less than a minute later as Worst Case Optimal Joins: Graph-Join correspondence, submitted by eatonphil. Score 5, comments 1

  KDE onboarding is good now rabbitictranslator.com  programming

First seen on Lobste.rs as KDE onboarding is good now on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by FedericoSchonborn. Score 43, comments 6  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as KDE onboarding is good now, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 176, comments 146  🔥   ⭐(6)

  minikv: A little KV store implementation in OCaml to practice DB systems things github.com  databases ml

First seen on Lobste.rs as minikv: A little KV store implementation in OCaml to practice DB systems things on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by eatonphil. Score 16, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Minikv: A little KV store implementation in OCaml to practice DB systems things, submitted by eatonphil. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 14h28 later as Minikv: A little KV store implementation in OCaml to practice DB systems things, submitted by tempodox. Score 2, comments 0

  Street Fighter II, The World Warrier (2021) fabiensanglard.net  games historical

First seen on Lobste.rs as Street Fighter II, The World Warrier (2021) on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by BD103. Score 25, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 11h51 later as Street Fighter II, the World Warrier (2021), submitted by birdculture. Score 428, comments 87  🔥   ⭐(1)

  Software craftsmanship is dead pcloadletter.dev  culture

First seen on Hacker News as Software Craftsmanship Is Dead on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by ronbenton. Score 43, comments 24  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as Software craftsmanship is dead, submitted by abnercoimbre. Score 51, comments 55  🔥

  Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp atgreen.github.io  lisp vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by atgreen. Score 29, comments 1  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  Unsigned char std::basic_string<> in C++ berthub.eu  c++

First seen on Lobste.rs as Unsigned char std::basic_string<> in C++ on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by raymii. Score 10, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Unsigned char std:basic_string<> in C++, submitted by jandeboevrie. Score 4, comments 0

  Where good ideas come from (for coding agents) sunilpai.dev  vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as Where good ideas come from (for coding agents) on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by typesanitizer. Score 5, comments 3

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Where good ideas come from (for coding agents), submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Where good ideas come from (for coding agents), submitted by andric. Score 1, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Where good ideas come from (for coding agents), submitted by vinhnx. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026? michael.stapelberg.ch  linux

First seen on Lobste.rs as Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026? on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by stapelberg. Score 128, comments 69  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Can I start using Wayland in 2026?, submitted by secure. Score 305, comments 294  🔥   ⭐(2)

  Maybe Comments SHOULD Explain 'What' (2017) hillelwayne.com  practices programming

First seen on Hacker News as Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017) on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by zahrevsky. Score 203, comments 200  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3h19 later as Maybe Comments SHOULD Explain 'What' (2017), submitted by runxiyu. Score 41, comments 16  🔥

  FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers rtfm.co.ua  freebsd networking security unix

First seen on Lobste.rs as FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by setevoy. Score 8, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 168, comments 12  🔥   ⭐(2)

  Quick And Easy GPU Random Numbers In D3D11 (2013) reedbeta.com  graphics

First seen on Lobste.rs as Quick And Easy GPU Random Numbers In D3D11 (2013) on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by LesleyLai. Score 7, comments 3

Then appeared on Hacker News 3m later as Quick and Easy GPU Random Numbers in D3D11 (2013), submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Quick and easy GPU random numbers, submitted by fanf2. Score 2, comments 0

  Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free? lukefleed.xyz  c c++ rust

First seen on Hacker News as Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free? on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by lukefleed. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1m later as Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free?, submitted by lukefleed. Score 43, comments 12  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 3 days later as Who owns the memory? Who calls free?, submitted by fanf2. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Web development is fun again ma.ttias.be  web

First seen on Hacker News as Web development is fun again on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by Mojah. Score 471, comments 595 controversial  🔥   ⭐(2)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2h42 later as Web development is fun again, submitted by mattiasgeniar. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google addyosmani.com  practices

First seen on Hacker News as Lessons from 14 years at Google on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by cdrnsf. Score 1630, comments 673  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 5h54 later as 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google, submitted by lalitm. Score 57, comments 11  🔥

  On scannerless parsing again wareya.wordpress.com  plt

First seen on Lobste.rs as On scannerless parsing again on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by icefox. Score 17, comments 7

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Scannerless Parsing Again, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1 epenguin.imalone.co.uk  hardware reversing

First seen on Lobste.rs as Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1 on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by azdle. Score 38, comments 9  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 9, comments 3  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1, submitted by birdculture. Score 4, comments 0

  My LLM coding workflow going into 2026 addyosmani.com  vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as My LLM coding workflow going into 2026 on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by majjoha. Score 15, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as My LLM coding workflow going into 2026, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 1

  Supercharge Your Development Workflow with Claude code action medium.com  vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as Supercharge Your Development Workflow with Claude code action on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by joaoqalves. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Supercharge your development workflow with Claude Code action, submitted by joaoqalves. Score 2, comments 0

  Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them fast.github.io  rust

First seen on Hacker News as Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by andylokandy. Score 99, comments 60  🔥   ⭐(7)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3h07 later as Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them, submitted by tomas. Score 38, comments 15  🔥

  Signals vs Query-Based Compilers marvinh.dev  compilers web

First seen on Lobste.rs as Signals vs Query-Based Compilers on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by EmNudge. Score 10, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Signals vs. Query-Based Compilers, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(18)

  Utopian Scholastic wol.fm  philosophy

First seen on Lobste.rs as Utopian Scholastic on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by gmem. Score 26, comments 5  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 22h59 later as Utopian Scholastic, submitted by birdculture. Score 70, comments 20  🔥   ⭐(10)

  Claude Code On-The-Go granda.org  vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as Claude Code On-The-Go on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by ucirello. Score 8, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Claude Code On-the-Go, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 533, comments 320  🔥   ⭐(2)

  LMDB freelist (and B-tree) Illustrated Guide github.com  databases

First seen on Lobste.rs as LMDB freelist (and B-tree) Illustrated Guide on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by bobpoekert. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3m later as LMDB freelist (and B-tree) Illustrated Guide, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  What is a PC compatible? codon.org.uk  historical

First seen on Lobste.rs as What is a PC compatible? on 04 Jan 2026, submitted by Foxboron. Score 14, comments 3

Then appeared on Hacker News 2h17 later as What Is a PC Compatible?, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 8, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 16h13 later as What Is a PC Compatible?, submitted by fanf2. Score 6, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 10 days later as What Is a PC Compatible?, submitted by edward. Score 3, comments 0   ⭐(8)

Monday, 05 Jan 2026

  Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 soatok.blog  email security

First seen on Lobste.rs as Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026 on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by fanf. Score 78, comments 52  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 10h00 later as Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026, submitted by tempodox. Score 7, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 9h38 later as Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026, submitted by thm. Score 10, comments 0  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026, submitted by birdculture. Score 34, comments 9  🔥   ⭐(27)

  Using iperf3 and Prometheus for WAN link monitoring freebsd.uw.cz  networking

First seen on Lobste.rs as Using iperf3 and Prometheus for WAN link monitoring on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by jummo. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Using iperf3 and Prometheus for WAN link monitoring, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Databases in 2025: A Year in Review cs.cmu.edu  databases

First seen on Hacker News as Databases in 2025: A Year in Review on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by viveknathani_. Score 669, comments 179  🔥   ⭐(2)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3h30 later as Databases in 2025: A Year in Review, submitted by fanf. Score 67, comments 17  🔥

  FreeBSD Home NAS, part 5: ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, and monitoring ZFS health rtfm.co.ua  freebsd unix

First seen on Lobste.rs as FreeBSD Home NAS, part 5: ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, and monitoring ZFS health on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by setevoy. Score 2, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as FreeBSD Home NAS, part 5: ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, and monitoring ZFS he, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

  A Practical guide to building a parser in Go gagor.pro  compilers go

First seen on Lobste.rs as A Practical guide to building a parser in Go on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by mysticmode. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3m later as A Practical guide to building a parser in Go, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Using eBPF to load-balance traffic across UDP sockets with Go vincent.bernat.ch  linux networking

First seen on Lobste.rs as Using eBPF to load-balance traffic across UDP sockets with Go on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by fanf. Score 18, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Using eBPF to load-balance traffic across UDP sockets with Go, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Using eBPF to load-balance traffic across UDP sockets with Golang, submitted by fanf2. Score 4, comments 0

  It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons tonsky.me  design ios mac

First seen on Hacker News as It's hard to justify Tahoe icons on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by lylejantzi3rd. Score 2421, comments 935  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1h36 later as It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons, submitted by ehamberg. Score 234, comments 72  🔥

  Sneaking Metadata into Mako Templates bobrubbens.nl  python

First seen on Lobste.rs as Sneaking Metadata into Mako Templates on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by rbr. Score 1, comments 1  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Sneaking Metadata into Mako Templates, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Rate limiting bursty workloads jean-lopes.github.io  databases

First seen on Lobste.rs as Rate limiting bursty workloads on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by schonfinkel. Score 3, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Rate Limiting Bursty Workloads, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  journal-guardian: JournalCTL Watcher with local LLM explanations for errors github.com  devops linux vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as journal-guardian: JournalCTL Watcher with local LLM explanations for errors on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by delirehberi. Score 2, comments 4

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Journal-guardian: JournalCTL Watcher with local LLM explanations for errors, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Why I Stop Prompting and Start Logging: The Design-Log Methodology wix.engineering  vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as I Stop Prompting and Start Logging: The Design-Log Methodology on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by yoava. Score 1, comments 2

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as Why I Stop Prompting and Start Logging: The Design-Log Methodology, submitted by lthms. Score 1, comments 3

  Compiler Engineering In Practice - Part 2: Why does a Compiler exist ? chisophugis.github.io  compilers

First seen on Hacker News as Compiler Engineering In Practice – Part 2: Why is a compiler? on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by pfdietz. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 47m later as Compiler Engineering In Practice - Part 2: Why does a Compiler exist ?, submitted by dhruvp. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Compiler Engineering In Practice – Part 2: Why does a compiler exist?, submitted by dhruv3006. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 19h35 later as Compiler Engineering In Practice – Part 2: Why is a compiler?, submitted by sebg. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  I switched from VSCode to Zed tenthousandmeters.com  editors vscode

First seen on Hacker News as I switched from VSCode to Zed on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by r4victor. Score 449, comments 409  🔥   ⭐(2)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 18h07 later as I switched from VSCode to Zed, submitted by diktomat. Score 25, comments 38 controversial  🔥

  How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem ploum.net  culture vcs

First seen on Lobste.rs as How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by toastal. Score 96, comments 55  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem, submitted by toastal. Score 70, comments 26  🔥

  Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand cekrem.github.io  elm plt

First seen on Lobste.rs as Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Already Understand on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by nemin. Score 21, comments 15  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Understand, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 8, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Functors, Applicatives, and Monads: The Scary Words You Understand, submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 0

  Software Acceleration and Desynchronization ferd.ca  practices

First seen on Hacker News as Software Acceleration and Desynchronization on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by vrnvu. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2 days later as Software Acceleration and Desynchronization, submitted by natfu. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 3 days later as Software Acceleration and Desynchronization, submitted by kiyanwang. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Go 1.26 interactive tour antonz.org  go

First seen on Hacker News as Go 1.26 Interactive Tour on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by evacchi. Score 10, comments 0  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3h13 later as Go 1.26 interactive tour, submitted by makishimu. Score 89, comments 12  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 21h04 later as Interactive tour of upcoming Go 1.26 features, submitted by nateb2022. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3 days later as Go 1.26 Interactive Tour, submitted by nnx. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 9 days later as Go 1.26 Interactive Tour, submitted by phren0logy. Score 111, comments 13  🔥   ⭐(21)

  komorebi Financial Breakdown for 2025 lgug2z.com  finance law

First seen on Hacker News as Komorebi Financial Breakdown for 2025 on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by bsnnkv. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1m later as komorebi Financial Breakdown for 2025, submitted by jeezy. Score 7, comments 0

  BLAKE2s Hashing Accelerator: A Solo Tapeout Journey essenceia.github.io  hardware

First seen on Hacker News as BLAKE2s Hashing Accelerator: A Solo Tapeout Journey on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by DustinEchoes. Score 6, comments 2

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2 days later as BLAKE2s Hashing Accelerator: A Solo Tapeout Journey, submitted by wezm. Score 10, comments 0

  Kelp: A New Streaming Log Parser Algorithm stonebucklabs.com  compsci rust

First seen on Lobste.rs as Kelp: A New Streaming Log Parser Algorithm on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by trueleo. Score 7, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Kelp: A New Streaming Log Parser Algorithm, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is your Type? lukefleed.xyz  c c++ rust

First seen on Lobste.rs as Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is your Type? on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by lukefleed. Score 32, comments 8  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 10h46 later as Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is Your Type?, submitted by lalitmaganti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 9h24 later as Who owns the memory? How big is your type?, submitted by fanf2. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  pre-tenuring in v8 wingolog.org  javascript

First seen on Hacker News as Pre-Tenuring in V8 on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by enz. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 6h56 later as pre-tenuring in v8, submitted by fanf. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 9h33 later as Pre-Tenuring in V8, submitted by JNRowe. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  so, you want to chunk really fast? minha.sh  ai performance

First seen on Hacker News as So, you want to chunk really fast? on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by snyy. Score 149, comments 41  🔥   ⭐(5)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 9h54 later as so, you want to chunk really fast?, submitted by lalitm. Score 21, comments 9  🔥

  A field guide to sandboxes for AI luiscardoso.dev  security

First seen on Lobste.rs as A field guide to sandboxes for AI on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by beowolx. Score 31, comments 19  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as A field guide to sandboxes for AI, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 18h58 later as A field guide to sandboxes for AI, submitted by corv. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as A field guide to sandboxes for AI, submitted by seanieb. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 14h41 later as A field guide to sandboxing AI workloads, submitted by transpute. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 4 days later as A field guide to sandboxes for AI, submitted by saikatsg. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 11 days later as A field guide to sandboxes for AI, submitted by vanoora. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Uncloud, self hosted Cloud, seen by a developer for developers blog.garambrogne.net  devops networking

First seen on Lobste.rs as Uncloud, self hosted Cloud, seen by a developer for developers on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by athoune. Score 9, comments 12 controversial

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Uncloud, self hosted Cloud, seen by a developer for developers, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 6, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Uncloud, self hosted Cloud, seen by a developer for developers, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  1160 PRs to improve Rust in 2025 kobzol.github.io  historical rust

First seen on Hacker News as 1160 PRs to improve Rust in 2025 on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by emschwartz. Score 9, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 11h34 later as 1160 PRs to improve Rust in 2025, submitted by ibobev. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 5 days later as 1160 PRs to improve Rust in 2025, submitted by BD103. Score 14, comments 0

  Nullbrook Archive nullbrook.org  art historical

First seen on Lobste.rs as Nullbrook Archive on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by jcd. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 13m later as Nullbrook Archive, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  go.sum Is Not a Lockfile words.filippo.io  go

First seen on Lobste.rs as go.sum Is Not a Lockfile on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by carlana. Score 55, comments 39  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Go.sum Is Not a Lockfile, submitted by skybrian. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h49 later as Go.sum Is Not a Lockfile, submitted by tatersolid. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Go.sum Is Not a Lockfile, submitted by birdculture. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 16h49 later as Go.sum is not a lockfile, submitted by pabs3. Score 176, comments 76  🔥   ⭐(7)

  LEGO Smart Play System lego.com  games

First seen on Lobste.rs as LEGO Smart Play System on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by voytec. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 15m later as Lego Smart Play, submitted by qzervaas. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 18h04 later as New Lego smart-play system, submitted by acoye. Score 71, comments 49  🔥   ⭐(17)

  There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout loworbitsecurity.com  networking security

First seen on Hacker News as There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by illithid0. Score 927, comments 428  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 17h32 later as There Were BGP Anomalies During The Venezuela Blackout, submitted by eduard. Score 86, comments 4  🔥

  Owning a Domain Increases Digital Self-Reliance chuck.is  email philosophy

First seen on Lobste.rs as Owning a Domain Increases Digital Self-Reliance on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by confusedalex. Score 12, comments 21 controversial  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 30m later as Owning a Domain Increase Digital Self-Reliance, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Owning a Domain Increases Digital Self-Reliance, submitted by birdculture. Score 14, comments 3  🔥

  Regexp Lessons tbray.org  compsci

First seen on Lobste.rs as Regexp Lessons on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by ahobson. Score 3, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 4h12 later as Regexp Lessons, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Building a CPU in Factorio - From D-Flip-Flops to an Operating System youtube.com  compsci video

First seen on Hacker News as Building a CPU in Factorio: From D-Flip-Flops to an Operating System [video] on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by Noghartt. Score 9, comments 1  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2m later as Building a CPU in Factorio - From D-Flip-Flops to an Operating System, submitted by Noghartt. Score 7, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h48 later as Building a CPU in Factorio: From D-Flip-Flops to an Operating System [video], submitted by bilekas. Score 13, comments 0  🔥

  LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word deobald.ca  databases distributed web

First seen on Hacker News as LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word on 05 Jan 2026, submitted by deobald. Score 50, comments 11  🔥   ⭐(19)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 6h25 later as LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word, submitted by adityaathalye. Score 2, comments 3

Tuesday, 06 Jan 2026

  The big regression world.hey.com  rant

First seen on Hacker News as The Big Regression on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by FireBy2024. Score 19, comments 5  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 14h50 later as The big regression, submitted by herbertl. Score 38, comments 12  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as The big regression, submitted by ajessejiryudavis. Score -2, comments 0  💤

  Writing mutexes from scratch in Go rybicki.io  go programming

First seen on Hacker News as Writing mutexes from scratch in Go on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by chriscbr. Score 8, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 4 days later as Writing mutexes from scratch in Go, submitted by tholok. Score 13, comments 2

  GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button zakhary.dev  art retrocomputing

First seen on Hacker News as GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by zakhary. Score 197, comments 29  🔥   ⭐(2)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button, submitted by sny. Score 7, comments 0

  Why Markdown emphasis fails in CJK: A deep dive into CommonMark's delimiter rules hackers.pub  design web

First seen on Lobste.rs as Why Markdown emphasis fails in CJK: A deep dive into CommonMark's delimiter rules on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by hongminhee. Score 46, comments 26  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 4h19 later as Markdown Emphasis Issues in CJK: Analyzing CommonMark's Delimiter Rules, submitted by birdculture. Score 4, comments 0   ⭐(24)

  A minimal keyboard key effect with CSS pjg1.site  css

First seen on Lobste.rs as A minimal keyboard key effect with CSS on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by PuercoPop. Score 23, comments 9  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as A minimal keyboard key effect with CSS, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as A minimal keyboard key effect with CSS, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  Time Travelling and Fixing Bugs with Property-Based Testing (2019) wickstrom.tech  haskell testing

First seen on Lobste.rs as Time Travelling and Fixing Bugs with Property-Based Testing (2019) on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by abhin4v. Score 14, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 7m later as Time Travelling and Fixing Bugs with Property-Based Testing (2019), submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0   ⭐(15)

  Building Type-Safe Compound Components tkdodo.eu  javascript web

First seen on Lobste.rs as Building Type-Safe Compound Components on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by EmNudge. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Building Type-Safe Compound Components, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  BGP in 2025 potaroo.net  networking

First seen on Lobste.rs as BGP in 2025 on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by fanf. Score 15, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as BGP in 2025, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  No, Microsoft Office didn't just get renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot howtogeek.com  windows

First seen on Hacker News as Microsoft Office didn't just get renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by JdeBP. Score 3, comments 1

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 44m later as No, Microsoft Office didn't just get renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot, submitted by abareplace. Score 5, comments 6

  ClojureDart: Still Alive, Kicking Harder - Grand & Dupuch youtube.com  android clojure ios mobile video web

First seen on Lobste.rs as ClojureDart: Still Alive, Kicking Harder - Grand & Dupuch on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by adityaathalye. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as ClojureDart: Still Alive, Kicking Harder – Grand and Dupuch [video], submitted by adityaathalye. Score 2, comments 0

  Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation blog.sebastianwick.net  linux

First seen on Hacker News as Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by JNRowe. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2 days later as Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation, submitted by FedericoSchonborn. Score 16, comments 0

  Open Source Mapping for News: Reuters scottreinhardmaps.com  practices visualization

First seen on Hacker News as Open Source Mapping for News: Reuters on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by altilunium. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as Open Source Mapping for News: Reuters, submitted by adamshaylor. Score 28, comments 0  🔥

  Aurora Sprint 2026 - Hack on Embedded Nix in Iceland aurorasprint.com  culture event nix

First seen on Lobste.rs as Aurora Sprint 2026 - Hack on Embedded Nix in Iceland on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by olafurgenki. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Aurora Sprint 2026 – Hack on Embedded Nix in Iceland, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes binaryigor.com  databases

First seen on Hacker News as MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Performance: throughput and latency, reads and writes on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by BinaryIgor. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 8 days later as MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes, submitted by BinaryIgor. Score 20, comments 11  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as MySQL vs. PostgreSQL Performance: throughput and latency, reads and writes, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  Easy (Horizontal Scrollbar) Fixes for Your Blog CSS aartaka.me  css

First seen on Lobste.rs as Easy (Horizontal Scrollbar) Fixes for Your Blog CSS on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by pjg1. Score 46, comments 4  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 3m later as Easy (Horizontal Scrollbar) Fixes for Your Blog CSS, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  Announcing mooR 1.0-beta1 timbran.org  release retrocomputing rust

First seen on Lobste.rs as Announcing mooR 1.0-beta1 on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by quad. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Moor 1.0-Beta1, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Gemini Protocol Stats obsessivefacts.com  networking

First seen on Hacker News as Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by rickcarlino. Score 73, comments 11  🔥   ⭐(5)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 52m later as Gemini Protocol Stats, submitted by rickcarlino. Score 15, comments 8

  Format-preserving Python AST manipulation library github.com  python

First seen on Lobste.rs as Format-preserving Python AST manipulation library on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by adam_kruszewski. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 6 days later as Show HN: Pfst – High-level Python AST/CST manipulation that preserves formatting, submitted by tom-pytel. Score 1, comments 1

  Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml github.com  ml

First seen on Lobste.rs as Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by eatonphil. Score 53, comments 13  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Zero heap allocation HTTP server using OxCaml, submitted by eatonphil. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 17h01 later as Httpz – Zero-Allocation HTTP/1.1 Parser for OxCaml, submitted by noelwelsh. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(7)

  Introducing AMD Ryzen AI Halo, a mini-PC for running LLMs locally amd.com  hardware vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as Taking Local AI Development to the Max with AMD Ryzen AI Halo on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by s-macke. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 14 days later as Introducing AMD Ryzen AI Halo, a mini-PC for running LLMs locally, submitted by atmosx. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 22h34 later as AMD Ryzen AI Halo for AI Developers, submitted by g42gregory. Score 7, comments 1

  Self-exchange leaves us in a valid but unspecified state aatango.codeberg.page  c++

First seen on Lobste.rs as Self-exchange leaves us in a valid but unspecified state on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by aatango. Score 7, comments 8

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Self-exchange leaves us in a valid but unspecified state, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  PostgreSQL Scripting Tips pgrs.net  databases

First seen on Lobste.rs as PostgreSQL Scripting Tips on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by pgr0ss. Score 14, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as PostgreSQL Scripting Tips, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 5, comments 0

  Sanctum 1.0.0 - small, reviewable, capable, PQ-secure and fully privilege separated novel VPN daemon and protocol chants.conclave.se  security

First seen on Hacker News as Sanctum 1.0.0 Released on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by jvink. Score 9, comments 1  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as Sanctum 1.0.0 - small, reviewable, capable, PQ-secure and fully privilege separated novel VPN daemon and protocol, submitted by a4rbay4mnv. Score 6, comments 4

  This Month in Redox - December 2025 redox-os.org  osdev rust

First seen on Lobste.rs as This Month in Redox - December 2025 on 06 Jan 2026, submitted by gnafuthegreat. Score 20, comments 3

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h12 later as This Month in Redox – December 2025, submitted by Ganipote. Score 10, comments 0  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 17 days later as This Month in Redox – December 2025, submitted by akyuu. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Wednesday, 07 Jan 2026

  why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is hecate.pink  programming

First seen on Lobste.rs as why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by heckie. Score 97, comments 43  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Why the trans flag emoji is the 5-codepoint sequence it is, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 162, comments 88  🔥   ⭐(13)

  Why write unit tests? (2024) henko.net  testing

First seen on Lobste.rs as Why write unit tests? (2024) on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by abhin4v. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Why write unit tests? (2024), submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 5, comments 0

  I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) youtube.com  games video

First seen on Hacker News as A game engine based on dynamic SDFs [video] on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by agys. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video], submitted by imagiro. Score 17, comments 2  🔥   ⭐(4)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 15h39 later as I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs), submitted by camilleroux. Score 23, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video], submitted by camilleroux. Score 7, comments 0

  XMPP and metadata blog.mathieui.net  networking privacy

First seen on Lobste.rs as XMPP and metadata on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by nicoco. Score 30, comments 15  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as XMPP and Metadata, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 5, comments 0   ⭐(9)

Then appeared on Hacker News 22h04 later as XMPP and Metadata, submitted by pabs3. Score 2, comments 0

  PostgreSQL 18 RETURNING Enhancements: A Game Changer for Modern Applications pgedge.com  databases

First seen on Lobste.rs as PostgreSQL 18 RETURNING Enhancements: A Game Changer for Modern Applications on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by sjamaan. Score 51, comments 12  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as PostgreSQL 18 Returning Enhancements: A Game Changer for Modern Applications, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  What is index overhead on writes? depesz.com  databases performance

First seen on Lobste.rs as What is index overhead on writes? on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by sjamaan. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as What is index overhead on writes?, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

  I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine) soap.coffee  devops

First seen on Hacker News as I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine) on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by TheWiggles. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(5)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2 days later as I Cannot SSH Into My Server Anymore (And That’s Fine), submitted by lthms. Score 52, comments 34  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine), submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  GoTHub SSH Signup gothub.org  openbsd vcs

First seen on Lobste.rs as GoTHub SSH Signup on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by gonzalo. Score 57, comments 7  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 7m later as GoTHub SSH Signup, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as GoTHub SSH Signup, submitted by birdculture. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  c-from-scratch: Learn to build safety-critical systems in C github.com  c programming

First seen on Lobste.rs as c-from-scratch: Learn to build safety-critical systems in C on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by felixyz. Score 12, comments 25 controversial  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as C-from-scratch: Learn to build safety-critical systems in C, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  The most popular Go dependency is… blog.thibaut-rousseau.com  go

First seen on Hacker News as The most popular Go dependency is on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by thiht. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1m later as The most popular Go dependency is…, submitted by thiht. Score 30, comments 20  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 15h15 later as The most popular Go dependency is, submitted by thunderbong. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as The most popular Go dependency is, submitted by bzGoRust. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  PMU Counters on Apple Silicon blog.bugsiki.dev  mac performance

First seen on Hacker News as CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by verte_zerg. Score 3, comments 0   ⭐(6)

Then appeared on Hacker News 14h27 later as PMU Counters on Apple Silicon, submitted by signa11. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as PMU Counters on Apple Silicon, submitted by ohrv. Score 19, comments 7

  How GitHub could secure npm humanwhocodes.com  security

First seen on Hacker News as How GitHub Could Secure NPM on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by Vinnl. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 5 days later as How GitHub could secure npm, submitted by greenheart. Score 6, comments 2

  Large feeds and RFC 5005 alexschroeder.ch  databases web

First seen on Hacker News as Large Feeds and RFC 5005 on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by 8organicbits. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(20)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 4 days later as Large feeds and RFC 5005, submitted by fanf. Score 4, comments 1

  A4 Paper Stories susam.net  math

First seen on Hacker News as A4 Paper Stories on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by blenderob. Score 377, comments 178  🔥   ⭐(2)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 28m later as A4 Paper Stories, submitted by susam. Score 92, comments 27  🔥

  Introduction to SIMD programming in pure Rust kerkour.com  performance rust

First seen on Hacker News as Introduction to SIMD programming in pure Rust on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by randomint64. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 19h17 later as Introduction to SIMD programming in pure Rust, submitted by fanf. Score 14, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 7 days later as SIMD Programming in Pure Rust, submitted by randomint64. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3 days later as SIMD Programming in Pure Rust, submitted by randomint64. Score 16, comments 2  🔥   ⭐(15)

  Hermes Studio demo (my React Native decompiler and disassembler) youtube.com  reversing security video

First seen on Lobste.rs as Hermes Studio demo (my React Native decompiler and disassembler) on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by pilfer. Score 8, comments 3

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Hermes Studio demo (my React Native decompiler and disassembler) [video], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  Effortless animations with CSS view transitions giacomocavalieri.me  css web

First seen on Lobste.rs as Effortless animations with CSS view transitions on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by giacomo_cavalieri. Score 23, comments 11  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Effortless animations with CSS view transitions, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3 days later as Effortless animations with CSS view transitions, submitted by mpweiher. Score 3, comments 0

  LLM problems observed in humans embd.cc  culture vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as LLM Problems Observed in Humans on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by js216. Score 148, comments 105  🔥   ⭐(3)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 9 days later as LLM problems observed in humans, submitted by lr0. Score 5, comments 0

  Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs pcgamer.com  hardware

First seen on Hacker News as Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by mossTechnician. Score 539, comments 379  🔥   ⭐(16)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as Dell seems to be the first to realise we don't actually care about AI PCs, submitted by eatonphil. Score 38, comments 26  🔥

  voxtype: Voice-to-text with push-to-talk for Wayland compositors github.com  linux rust

First seen on Lobste.rs as voxtype: Voice-to-text with push-to-talk for Wayland compositors on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by tristandunn. Score 8, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Voxtype: Voice-to-text with push-to-talk for Wayland compositors, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Judging a Type by Its Pointer: Optimizing GPU Virtual Functions (2021) engineering.purdue.edu  graphics pdf performance

First seen on Lobste.rs as Judging a Type by Its Pointer: Optimizing GPU Virtual Functions (2021) on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by LesleyLai. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Judging a Type by Its Pointer: Optimizing GPU Virtual Functions (2021) [pdf], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Myths about Logitech Developer ID certificate expiration lapcatsoftware.com  mac security

First seen on Hacker News as Myths about Logitech Developer ID certificate expiration on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by frizlab. Score 6, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2h40 later as Myths about Logitech Developer ID certificate expiration, submitted by raymii. Score 20, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Myths about Logitech Developer ID certificate expiration, submitted by frizlab. Score 4, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Myths about Logitech Developer ID certificate expiration, submitted by robin_reala. Score 3, comments 0

  GitHub: a case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013) chrismorgan.info  web

First seen on Hacker News as GitHub: A case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013) on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by roryokane. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(17)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs less than a minute later as GitHub: a case study in link maintenance and 404 pages (2013), submitted by roryokane. Score 2, comments 3

  Brain Data in Clojure 2: BrainFloj in Premise and Practice - Lyons youtube.com  clojure hardware java science video

First seen on Hacker News as Brain Data in Clojure 2: BrainFloj in Premise and Practice – Lyons [video] on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by adityaathalye. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2m later as Brain Data in Clojure 2: BrainFloj in Premise and Practice - Lyons, submitted by adityaathalye. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Run Your Project in a Dev Container, in Zed zed.dev  editors

First seen on Hacker News as Run Your Project in a Dev Container, in Zed on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by meetpateltech. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 14h31 later as Run Your Project in a Dev Container, in Zed, submitted by diktomat. Score 18, comments 6

Then appeared on Hacker News 4h37 later as Run Your Project in a Dev Container, in Zed, submitted by ahamez. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Tailwind Labs loses 80% of revenue and 75% of engineering due to AI adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm  audio css

First seen on Hacker News as We had six months left on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by imtany. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 13h48 later as Tailwind Labs loses 80% of revenue and 75% of engineering due to AI, submitted by brtkdotse. Score 99, comments 146 controversial  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2h43 later as Adam's Morning Walk: We had six months left, submitted by tosh. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h40 later as We had six months left [audio], submitted by thunderbong. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Tailwind Labs loses 80% of revenue and 75% of engineering due to AI, submitted by birdculture. Score 1, comments 1

  The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14 discourse.haskell.org  debugging haskell release

First seen on Hacker News as The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14 on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by cosmic_quanta. Score 2, comments 1

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2h48 later as The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14, submitted by romes. Score 29, comments 2  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14, submitted by romes. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as The new Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14, submitted by romes. Score 9, comments 0

  The Manchester Garbage Collector and purple-garden's runtime xnacly.me  c plt

First seen on Hacker News as The Manchester Garbage Collector and purple-garden's runtime on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by xnacly. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(11)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 15h10 later as The Manchester Garbage Collector and purple-garden's runtime, submitted by xnacly. Score 7, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 6h16 later as The Manchester Garbage Collector and purple-garden's runtime, submitted by ibobev. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(23)

  Policy-Based Design versus Combinatorial Hell becheler.github.io  c++ plt

First seen on Lobste.rs as Policy-Based Design versus Combinatorial Hell on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by camilleroux. Score 2, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Policy-Based Design versus Combinatorial Hell, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  Watch me run malware from NPM youtube.com  javascript security video

First seen on Lobste.rs as Watch me run malware from NPM on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by kuijsten. Score 3, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Watch me run malware from NPM [video], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Fun with Algebraic Effects - from Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations blog.janestreet.com  ml plt

First seen on Hacker News as Fun with Algebraic Effects – From Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by i_don_t_know. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 9h35 later as Fun with Algebraic Effects - from Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations, submitted by asb. Score 16, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Fun with Algebraic Effects – From Toy Examples to Hardcaml Simulations, submitted by agluszak. Score 2, comments 0

  Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them? lea.verou.me  javascript web

First seen on Hacker News as Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them? on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by speckx. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 7h08 later as Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?, submitted by andrewchou. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 16h53 later as Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?, submitted by ulrischa. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP soatok.blog  cryptography

First seen on Hacker News as Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by zdw. Score 10, comments 0  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 47m later as Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP, submitted by algernon. Score 25, comments 4  🔥

  Unit testing your code’s performance, part 1: Big-O scaling pythonspeed.com  performance

First seen on Lobste.rs as Unit testing your code’s performance, part 1: Big-O scaling on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by itamarst. Score 2, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 3m later as Unit testing your code's performance, part 1: Big-O scaling, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 6 days later as Unit testing your code's performance, part 1: Big-O scaling, submitted by rbanffy. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Programming Languages in 2025 youtube.com  programming video

First seen on Lobste.rs as Programming Languages in 2025 on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by hwj. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Programming Languages in 2025 [video], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Per-query energy consumption of LLMs muxup.com  ai

First seen on Hacker News as Per-query energy consumption of LLMs on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by hasheddan. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 8h36 later as Per-query energy consumption of LLMs, submitted by avsm. Score 16, comments 11

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Per-query energy consumption of LLMs, submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 0

  The Importance of Sandboxing garden-lang.org  plt security

First seen on Lobste.rs as The Importance of Sandboxing on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by typesanitizer. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as The Importance of Sandboxing, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  Some Gleam Projects dusty.phillips.codes  css gleam

First seen on Lobste.rs as Some Gleam Projects on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by krig. Score 8, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Some Gleam Projects, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  NumPy-QuadDType: A cross-platform Quad (128-bit) float Data-Type for NumPy numpy.org  python

First seen on Lobste.rs as NumPy-QuadDType: A cross-platform Quad (128-bit) float Data-Type for NumPy on 07 Jan 2026, submitted by ngoldbaum. Score 3, comments 3

Then appeared on Hacker News 2h28 later as NumPy-QuadDType: A cross-platform Quad (128-bit) float Data-Type for NumPy, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 11, comments 0  🔥

Thursday, 08 Jan 2026

  European Commission issues call for evidence on open source lwn.net  law

First seen on Hacker News as European Commission issues call for evidence on open source on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by immibis. Score 3, comments 3

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as European Commission issues call for evidence on open source, submitted by pabs3. Score 440, comments 349  🔥   ⭐(4)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2h41 later as European Commission issues call for evidence on open source, submitted by fs111. Score 112, comments 27  🔥

  Worst of Breed Software worstofbreed.net  programming satire

First seen on Lobste.rs as Worst of Breed Software on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by pgr0ss. Score 21, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 10h11 later as Worst of Breed Software, submitted by adityaathalye. Score 4, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h00 later as Worst of Breed – Engineering Antipatterns, submitted by jrave. Score 16, comments 1  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as Worst of breed software, submitted by facundo_olano. Score 111, comments 53  🔥   ⭐(3)

  What would make OCaml serverless ready? chrisarmstrong.dev  distributed ml

First seen on Lobste.rs as What would make OCaml serverless ready? on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by avsm. Score 17, comments 13  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as What would make OCaml serverless ready?, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

  Project Patchouli - Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware patchouli.readthedocs.io  hardware

First seen on Hacker News as Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by ffin. Score 450, comments 49  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as Project Patchouli - Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware, submitted by siddhartha_golu. Score 10, comments 1

  What's New and Changed in PHP8.5 php.watch  php release

First seen on Lobste.rs as What's New and Changed in PHP8.5 on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by xSavitar. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2h42 later as PHP 8.5: What's New and Changed, submitted by lemper. Score 2, comments 0

  Why language interpreters and virtual machines are slow mortoray.com  compilers

First seen on Hacker News as Why language interpreters and virtual machines are slow on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by ingve. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 6 days later as Why language interpreters and virtual machines are slow, submitted by abnercoimbre. Score 6, comments 4

  FreeBSD Home NAS, part 8: Backing up NFS and Samba data with restic rtfm.co.ua  freebsd linux unix

First seen on Lobste.rs as FreeBSD Home NAS, part 8: Backing up NFS and Samba data with restic on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by setevoy. Score 10, comments 10

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as FreeBSD Home NAS, part 8: Backing up NFS and Samba data with restic, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

  2025 in retrospect & happy new year 2026 gentoo.org  linux

First seen on Lobste.rs as 2025 in retrospect & happy new year 2026 on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by FedericoSchonborn. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3 days later as Gentoo Linux 2025 Review, submitted by akhuettel. Score 335, comments 185  🔥   ⭐(1)

  Some Things I've Learned About Software youtube.com  programming video

First seen on Lobste.rs as Some Things I've Learned About Software on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by ltratt. Score 7, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 3m later as Some Things I've Learned About Software [video], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 4 days later as Some Things I've Learned About Software [video], submitted by ltratt. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid riggraz.dev  philosophy programming

First seen on Lobste.rs as Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by riggraz. Score 52, comments 14  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 17h04 later as Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid, submitted by Growtika. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid, submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 0

  How I program in AWK maximullaris.com  programming

First seen on Lobste.rs as How I program in AWK on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by xonix. Score 43, comments 9  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as I Program in Awk, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 7, comments 0

  AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse spectrum.ieee.org  vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as AI coding assistants are getting worse? on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by voxadam. Score 441, comments 715 controversial  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 5 days later as AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse, submitted by eduard. Score 35, comments 20  🔥

  How Terminals Work how-terminals-work.vercel.app  unix

First seen on Lobste.rs as How Terminals Work on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by mgm. Score 33, comments 7  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2h08 later as How Terminals Work, submitted by gnodar. Score 48, comments 5  🔥

  Keeping 20,000 GPUs healthy modal.com  scaling

First seen on Hacker News as Keeping 10k GPUs Healthy on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 23h34 later as Keeping 20k GPUs Healthy, submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Keeping 20k GPUs Healthy, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 9h04 later as Keeping 20,000 GPUs healthy, submitted by thundergolfer. Score 17, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 9m later as Keeping 20,000 GPUs Healthy, submitted by susam. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Keeping 20k GPUs Healthy, submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 12h33 later as Keeping 20k GPUs Healthy, submitted by MasterScrat. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 5 days later as Keeping 20k GPUs Healthy, submitted by jxmorris12. Score 3, comments 0   ⭐(14)

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Keeping 20k GPUs Healthy, submitted by aburan28. Score 3, comments 0

  Template Parameter Deduction: Eliminating Hidden Copies in Generic Code 0xghost.dev  c++ performance

First seen on Hacker News as Template Parameter Deduction: Eliminating Hidden Copies in Generic Code on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by 0xghost. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 9h09 later as Template Parameter Deduction: Eliminating Hidden Copies in Generic Code, submitted by asb. Score 7, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Template Parameter Deduction: Eliminating Hidden Copies in Generic Code, submitted by tempodox. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 19 days later as Template Parameter Deduction: Eliminating Hidden Copies in Generic Code, submitted by PaulHoule. Score 2, comments 0

  jujutsu v0.37.0 released github.com  release vcs

First seen on Lobste.rs as jujutsu v0.37.0 released on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by dpassen. Score 71, comments 19  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 54m later as Jujutsu v0.37.0 Released, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Jujutsu v0.37.0 Released, submitted by birdculture. Score 5, comments 0

  Why SemVer fails when you patch old versions and what to do instead beza1e1.tuxen.de  api practices

First seen on Lobste.rs as Why SemVer fails when you patch old versions and what to do instead on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by qznc. Score 10, comments 13 controversial

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Why SemVer fails when you patch old versions and what to do instead, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  A data model for Git jvns.ca  vcs

First seen on Hacker News as A data model for Git (and other docs updates) on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by jefurii. Score 8, comments 1

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1m later as A data model for Git, submitted by ngoldbaum. Score 89, comments 1  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 15h04 later as A data model for Git (and other docs updates), submitted by ibobev. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as A data model for Git (and other docs updates), submitted by jasonpeacock. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 4 days later as A Data Model for Git, submitted by 7777777phil. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 18h21 later as A Data Model for Git, submitted by ndr. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 17h53 later as A Data Model for Git, submitted by vismit2000. Score 3, comments 0

  A Year of Typing: My NumPy Fellowship Retrospective blog.scientific-python.org  plt python

First seen on Lobste.rs as A Year of Typing: My NumPy Fellowship Retrospective on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by ngoldbaum. Score 8, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 5h07 later as A Year of Typing: My NumPy Fellowship Retrospective, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

  HTML parsers in Portland felix.dognebula.com  programming vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as HTML parsers in Portland on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by polywolf. Score 22, comments 8  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2h36 later as Code review of vibe coded HTML parser translations, submitted by nicoburns. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 24 days later as HTML Parsers in Portland, submitted by PaulHoule. Score 2, comments 0

  Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14) lists.debian.org  linux

First seen on Hacker News as Debian GNOME team announces intent to remove GTK 2 in Debian 14 on 08 Jan 2026, submitted by superkuh. Score 6, comments 3

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 9 days later as Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14), submitted by raymii. Score 28, comments 6  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14), submitted by jandeboevrie. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14), submitted by birdculture. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Friday, 09 Jan 2026

  Which programming languages are most token-efficient? martinalderson.com  vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as Which programming languages are most token-efficient? on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by martinald. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 15h16 later as Which programming languages are most token-efficient?, submitted by diktomat. Score 14, comments 13

Then appeared on Hacker News 2 days later as Which programming languages are most token-efficient?, submitted by tehnub. Score 113, comments 88  🔥   ⭐(4)

  jxl-rs merged into Chromium github.com  browsers

First seen on Lobste.rs as jxl-rs merged into Chromium on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by Miaourt. Score 29, comments 3  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Jxl-Rs Merged into Chromium, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

  Introducing EktuPy kushaldas.in  education games python

First seen on Hacker News as Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by kushaldas. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(11)

Then appeared on Hacker News 15h07 later as EktuPy, submitted by pauloxnet. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs less than a minute later as Introducing EktuPy, submitted by pauloxnet. Score 8, comments 1

  Magicall: end-to-end encrypted videoconferencing in the browser, now in alpha magicall.online  release

First seen on Lobste.rs as Magicall: end-to-end encrypted videoconferencing in the browser, now in alpha on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by nadim. Score 15, comments 11

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Magicall: End-to-end encrypted videoconferencing in the browser, now in alpha, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

  Shell scripts f5n.org  devops programming

First seen on Lobste.rs as Shell scripts on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by wink. Score 29, comments 63 controversial  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Shell Scripts, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

  Celeste & TowerFall Physics maddymakesgames.com  games

First seen on Lobste.rs as Celeste & TowerFall Physics on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by FedericoSchonborn. Score 74, comments 10  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Celeste and TowerFall Physics, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Celeste and TowerFall Physics, submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 0

  Automatic TLS Certificates for Common Lisp with pure-tls/acme atgreen.github.io  lisp vibecoding web

First seen on Lobste.rs as Automatic TLS Certificates for Common Lisp with pure-tls/acme on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by atgreen. Score 7, comments 3

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Automatic TLS Certificates for Common Lisp with pure-TLS/acme, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

  &&&&&&&&&&&&&&str ohadravid.github.io  performance rust

First seen on Lobste.rs as &&&&&&&&&&&&&&str on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by ohrv. Score 106, comments 10  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as &&&&&&&&&&&&&&Str, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 6, comments 0

  Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells linus.schreibt.jetzt  unix

First seen on Lobste.rs as Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by polywolf. Score 18, comments 18  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0   ⭐(12)

  Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System youtube.com  osdev rust video

First seen on Lobste.rs as Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by briankung. Score 5, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Xous: A Pure-Rust Rethink of the Embedded Operating System [video], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  Lies, Damn Lies, and Semantic Versioning medium.com  programming

First seen on Lobste.rs as Lies, Damn Lies, and Semantic Versioning on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by pinjasaur. Score 2, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Lies, Damn Lies, and Semantic Versioning, submitted by pinjasaur. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Answer Set Programming (2019) cs.utexas.edu  book compsci pdf

First seen on Lobste.rs as Answer Set Programming (2019) on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by hwayne. Score 19, comments 8

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Answer Set Programming (2019) [pdf], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Answer Set Programming (PDF, 2019), submitted by tempodox. Score 2, comments 0

  Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass muratbuffalo.blogspot.com  hardware performance

First seen on Hacker News as Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by speckx. Score 52, comments 12  🔥   ⭐(5)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 48m later as Cloudspecs: Cloud Hardware Evolution Through the Looking Glass, submitted by asb. Score 3, comments 0

  Making Tools Developers Actually Use youtube.com  clojure practices video

First seen on Hacker News as Making Tools Developers Actually Use – Michiel Borkent [video] on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by adityaathalye. Score 8, comments 1

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 4m later as Making Tools Developers Actually Use, submitted by adityaathalye. Score 8, comments 2

  Building a Self-Tuning Strategy Planner for OpenFGA auth0.com  go performance

First seen on Lobste.rs as Building a Self-Tuning Strategy Planner for OpenFGA on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by jpadilla. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 13 days later as Taming P99s in OpenFGA: How we built a self-tuning strategy planner, submitted by elbuo. Score 9, comments 1  🔥   ⭐(14)

  How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster iscinumpy.dev  performance python

First seen on Lobste.rs as How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by ngoldbaum. Score 28, comments 0  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 5m later as How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 13, comments 2  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 6 days later as How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster, submitted by rbanffy. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(6)

  An Adequate Left-Associated Binary Numeral System in the lambda-Calculus brics.dk  compsci pdf

First seen on Lobste.rs as An Adequate Left-Associated Binary Numeral System in the lambda-Calculus on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by bediger4000. Score 5, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 42m later as An Adequate Left-Associated Binary Numeral System in the Lambda-Calculus, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 13h55 later as An adequate left-associated binary numeral system in the lambda calculus, submitted by fanf2. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Code And Let Live fly.io  devops vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as Code and Let Live on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by usrme. Score 484, comments 184  🔥   ⭐(7)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as Code And Let Live, submitted by teymour. Score 8, comments 6

  Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months elixir-lang.org  elixir

First seen on Hacker News as Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by josevalim. Score 10, comments 2  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 10h56 later as Type inference of all constructs in Elixir, submitted by aeonfox. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 44m later as Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months, submitted by adaszko. Score 24, comments 3

  Embermarks: A Firefox extension to discover forgotten bookmarks bastiangruber.ca  browsers show

First seen on Hacker News as Show HN: Embermarks – Rediscover your forgotten bookmarks on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by recvonline. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1m later as Embermarks: A Firefox extension to discover forgotten bookmarks, submitted by gruberb. Score 4, comments 0

  QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP renaudguezennec.eu  c++

First seen on Lobste.rs as QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by raymii. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as QtNat – Open you port with Qt UPnP, submitted by jandeboevrie. Score 45, comments 38  🔥   ⭐(2)

  Prompting 101: Show, don’t tell haskellforall.com  vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as Prompting 101: Show, don’t tell on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by Gabriella439. Score 43, comments 26  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Prompting 101: Show, don't tell, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 6, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Prompting 101: Show, don't tell, submitted by birdculture. Score 8, comments 0

  Garbage collected handles are lifetime-contravariant trynova.dev  rust

First seen on Lobste.rs as Garbage collected handles are lifetime-contravariant on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by aapoalas. Score 22, comments 11  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Garbage Collection Is Contrarian, submitted by aapoalas. Score 4, comments 0   ⭐(12)

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Garbage collected handles are lifetime-contravariant, submitted by birdculture. Score 3, comments 0

  Incredible Precision from Simple Parts - The clever trick youtube.com  hardware video

First seen on Hacker News as Precision from Simple Parts – The clever trick [video] on 09 Jan 2026, submitted by pavel_lishin. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 8m later as Incredible Precision from Simple Parts - The clever trick, submitted by fancybone. Score 3, comments 0

Saturday, 10 Jan 2026

  The Code-Only Agent rijnard.com  vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as The Code-Only Agent on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by emersonmacro. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 9 days later as The Code-Only Agent, submitted by emersonmacro. Score 152, comments 68  🔥   ⭐(4)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as The Code-Only Agent, submitted by bryfry. Score 5, comments 2

  Phosh 2025 in Retrospect phosh.mobi  linux mobile

First seen on Lobste.rs as Phosh 2025 in Retrospect on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by ThinkChaos. Score 11, comments 6

Then appeared on Hacker News 2h35 later as Phosh 2025 in Retrospect, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 4 days later as Phosh (Phone Shell) 2025 in retrospect, submitted by fsflover. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  annote: Writing java using only annotations github.com  satire

First seen on Hacker News as Annote – writing Java using only annotations on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by matthews3. Score 2, comments 1

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 6h08 later as annote: Writing java using only annotations, submitted by asb. Score 24, comments 8  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 7h40 later as Annote: Writing Java using only annotations, submitted by tempodox. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 9h42 later as Annote: A Turing complete language using only Java annotations as its syntax, submitted by kushv. Score 1, comments 1

  Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust github.com  rust show vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by hongminhee. Score 23, comments 5  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust, submitted by birdculture. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 22 days later as Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust, submitted by PaulHoule. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Debian Taco - Towards a GitSecDevOps Debian blog.josefsson.org  devops linux

First seen on Hacker News as Debian Taco – Towards a GitSecDevOps Debian on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by edward. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 21h54 later as Debian Taco – Towards a GitSecDevOps Debian, submitted by pabs3. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 7 days later as Debian Taco - Towards a GitSecDevOps Debian, submitted by FedericoSchonborn. Score 5, comments 1

  Finding and Fixing a 50,000 Goroutine Leak That Nearly Killed Production skoredin.pro  go

First seen on Hacker News as Finding and Fixing a 50k Goroutine Leak That Nearly Killed Production on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by ingve. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Finding and Fixing a 50k Goroutine Leak That Nearly Killed Production, submitted by ibobev. Score 3, comments 0   ⭐(7)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 3 days later as Finding and Fixing a 50,000 Goroutine Leak That Nearly Killed Production, submitted by esak. Score 0, comments 3

  A year of work on the ALPM project devblog.archlinux.page  linux

First seen on Lobste.rs as A year of work on the ALPM project on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by wiktor. Score 5, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News less than a minute later as A year of work on the ALPM project, submitted by Thom2000. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 15h33 later as A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project, submitted by susam. Score 96, comments 28  🔥   ⭐(6)

  Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) popovicu.com  assembly

First seen on Lobste.rs as Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by runxiyu. Score 14, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023), submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 1   ⭐(13)

  How I use Jujutsu abhinavsarkar.net  vcs

First seen on Lobste.rs as How I use Jujutsu on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by LesleyLai. Score 47, comments 29  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as I Use Jujutsu, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 16h21 later as I Use Jujutsu, submitted by vinhnx. Score 3, comments 0

  Continuous Snapshotting Filesystem nilfs.sourceforge.io  linux

First seen on Lobste.rs as Continuous Snapshotting Filesystem on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by natfu. Score 18, comments 10  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Continuous Snapshotting Filesystem, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 0

  LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind omarabid.com  vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by csomar. Score 18, comments 47 controversial  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 40, comments 15  🔥

  Pulling a New Proof from Knuth’s Fixed-Point Printer research.swtch.com  compsci

First seen on Lobste.rs as Pulling a New Proof from Knuth’s Fixed-Point Printer on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by jparise. Score 32, comments 2  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Pulling a New Proof from Knuth's Fixed-Point Printer, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 13, comments 0  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 18h58 later as Pulling a new proof from Knuth's fixed-point printer, with code in Ivy, submitted by fanf2. Score 2, comments 0

  OpenChaos.dev openchaos.dev  art

First seen on Hacker News as Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by stefanvdw1. Score 412, comments 84  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 57m later as OpenChaos.dev, submitted by freddyb. Score 36, comments 6  🔥

  Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons weblog.rogueamoeba.com  mac

First seen on Hacker News as Removing Tahoe's Unwanted Menu Icons on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by ingve. Score 4, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 15h30 later as Removing Tahoe's Unwanted Menu Icons, submitted by dbushell. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 10h52 later as Removing macOS 26 Tahoe's unwanted menu icons, submitted by chmaynard. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 21 days later as Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons, submitted by fanf. Score 1, comments 1  💤

  A Typical PDF hackerfactor.com  programming security

First seen on Hacker News as A Typical PDF on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by 1317. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as A Typical PDF, submitted by EvanHahn. Score 31, comments 2  🔥

  The coolest feature in Python 3.14 savannah.dev  debugging devops python

First seen on Hacker News as The coolest feature in Python 3.14 on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by azhenley. Score 6, comments 3

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1 day later as The coolest feature in Python 3.14, submitted by ubernostrum. Score 28, comments 4  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 13h41 later as The coolest feature in Python 3.14, submitted by birdculture. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  jj tug shaddy.dev  vcs

First seen on Lobste.rs as jj tug on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by indigo. Score 40, comments 17  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Jj Tug, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Jj Tug, submitted by birdculture. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak mitchellh.com  debugging zig

First seen on Hacker News as Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by thorel. Score 616, comments 134  🔥   ⭐(1)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 1h06 later as Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak, submitted by fluent. Score 105, comments 14  🔥

  V16 beacon full uplink conversation destevez.net  networking reversing

First seen on Lobste.rs as V16 beacon full uplink conversation on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by freddyb. Score 9, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as V16 beacon full uplink conversation, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 2, comments 1

  Linus is vibe coding github.com  person vibecoding

First seen on Hacker News as AudioNoise on 10 Jan 2026, submitted by throwaway2027. Score 6, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 10h09 later as Linus is vibe coding, submitted by dhruv3006. Score 57, comments 3  🔥

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 34m later as Linus is vibe coding, submitted by dhruvp. Score 6, comments 1

Sunday, 11 Jan 2026

  16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise nesbitt.io  practices satire security

First seen on Lobste.rs as 16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise on 11 Jan 2026, submitted by twm. Score 10, comments 4

Then appeared on Hacker News 1h38 later as Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 23h44 later as 16 Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise, submitted by zdw. Score 2, comments 1   ⭐(12)

  Writing First, Tooling Second susam.net  culture

First seen on Hacker News as Writing First, Tooling Second on 11 Jan 2026, submitted by Brajeshwar. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 4 days later as Writing First, Tooling Second, submitted by thunderbong. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Lobste.rs 2 days later as Writing First, Tooling Second, submitted by rbr. Score 28, comments 9  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 10h34 later as Writing First, Tooling Second, submitted by blenderob. Score 1, comments 0  💤   ⭐(11)

  80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3] ryelang.org  programming

First seen on Lobste.rs as 80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3] on 11 Jan 2026, submitted by refaktor. Score 37, comments 7  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as 80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3], submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 3, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as 80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3], submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead karl-voit.at  rant

First seen on Lobste.rs as Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead on 11 Jan 2026, submitted by diktomat. Score 11, comments 21 controversial  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 12, comments 3  🔥

  A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language cprimozic.net  performance plt

First seen on Hacker News as A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language on 11 Jan 2026, submitted by Ameo. Score 4, comments 1   ⭐(15)

Then appeared on Lobste.rs less than a minute later as A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language, submitted by Ameo. Score 31, comments 13  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as A Unique Performance Optimization for a 3D Geometry Language, submitted by birdculture. Score 2, comments 0

  whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code github.com  vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code on 11 Jan 2026, submitted by spc476. Score 8, comments 2

Then appeared on Hacker News 1m later as Whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 8h42 later as Whenwords – A relative time formatting library, with no code, submitted by tardismechanic. Score 2, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Agnostic library without code, only specs and tests, submitted by nesk_. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code, submitted by simonpure. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 4 days later as Whenwords: An Open Source Library Without Code, submitted by howToTestFE. Score 2, comments 1

Then appeared on Hacker News 8 days later as Whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code, submitted by bigwheels. Score 2, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 14h01 later as Whenwords: An Open Source Library Without Code, submitted by lis. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  How Safe is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into crates.io mr-leshiy-blog.web.app  rust security

First seen on Lobste.rs as How Safe is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into crates.io on 11 Jan 2026, submitted by diktomat. Score 12, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as How Safe Is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into Crates.io, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 4 days later as How Safe Is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into Crates.io, submitted by RustSupremacist. Score 1, comments 0  💤

  Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com  vibecoding

First seen on Lobste.rs as Don't fall into the anti-AI hype on 11 Jan 2026, submitted by mitsuhiko. Score 140, comments 279 controversial  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Don't fall into the anti-AI hype, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 1221, comments 1548 controversial  🔥   ⭐(1)

  Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer tech.lgbt  retrocomputing windows

First seen on Lobste.rs as Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Windows 95 installer on 11 Jan 2026, submitted by David_Gerard. Score 43, comments 2  🔥

Then appeared on Hacker News 2m later as Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with W, submitted by todsacerdoti. Score 6, comments 0

Then appeared on Hacker News 1 day later as Create a Desktop Using Windows 3.10 from Windows 95 Installer, submitted by birdculture. Score 1, comments 0  💤

Then appeared on Hacker News 11 days later as Semi-working desktop based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with Win 95 installer, submitted by PaulHoule. Score 2, comments 0