Daily Lobsters for 2026-02-03

The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 03, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers
  

  security
  

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• Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
  

  retrocomputing reversing
  

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• Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist
  

  hardware
  

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• The Disconnected Git Workflow
  

  vcs
  

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• Ending 15 years of subprocess polling
  

  python
  

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• Forget technical debt
  

  practices
  

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• Building blocks for peer-to-peer applications
  

  networking
  

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• zig libc
  

  zig
  

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• Vibe: Easy VM sandboxes for LLM agents on MacOS
  

  vibecoding virtualization
  

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• My experience with vibe coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Selfish AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Migrating to GTK3 – Re: Factor
  

  concatenative graphics
  

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