The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 05, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Competence as Tragedy
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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• Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
  

  mobile privacy
  

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• Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments
  

  reversing security
  

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• Easily write Bash with a transpiler
  

  linux unix
  

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• GDPR Enforcement Is Broken
  

  law privacy
  

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• Sukr: A minimal static site compiler in Rust with zero-JS output
  

  release rust vibecoding web
  

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• Microsoft Has Killed Widgets Six Times. Here's Why They Keep Coming Back
  

  windows
  

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• java sucks (2000)
  

  java programming
  

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• I miss thinking hard
  

  philosophy vibecoding
  

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• I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input
  

  security unix
  

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• Fitting Some Files Through A Stdout-Shaped Hole
  

  devops
  

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• LFS/BLFS will no longer be developing the System V versions
  

  linux systemd
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?
  

  email
  

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• What's your email setup?
  

  ask email
  

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• Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions
  

  netbsd
  

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• One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly (2022)
  

  historical scaling
  

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• Rust 1.93 performance improvements in format! and friends
  

  rust
  

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• Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons
  

  mac
  

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• Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The largest number representable in 64 bits
  

  math plt
  

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• The Retro Web
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
  

  law privacy security
  

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• Plasma Effect
  

  graphics
  

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• Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility
  

  rust unix
  

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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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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• FOSDEM 2026 - Live Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
  

  nix
  

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• The State Of Garnet, 2026
  

  plt
  

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• Some Data Should Be Code
  

  programming
  

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• Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Book of Verse
  

  games plt
  

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• Automatic programming
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• The imminent risk of vibe coding
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox
  

  vibecoding virtualization
  

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• Subtypes and status-dependent data: pure relational approach
  

  databases
  

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• Outsourcing thinking
  

  philosophy
  

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• Six Simple Sudoku Solvers: Prolog
  

  logiclangs
  

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