Daily Lobsters for 2026-02-02

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• In Praise of –dry-run
  

  programming
  

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• archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog
  

  security web
  

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• The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?
  

  api
  

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• Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
  

  pdf programming
  

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• This year in LLVM (2025)
  

  compilers
  

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• Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware
  

  video debugging hardware
  

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• Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI
  

  vcs
  

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• Contracts in Nix
  

  nix
  

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• My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
  

  ml performance
  

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• A 9M-parameter Mandarin pronunciation tutor
  

  ai
  

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• Libreboot 26.01 “Magnanimous Max” released
  

  hardware
  

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