The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
  

  security
  

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• Current - An RSS reader
  

  design mobile
  

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• Paged Out! #8
  

  pdf ai programming security
  

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• Bruteforcing the Bitwarden master password I forgor
  

  cryptography reversing
  

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• Notes on clarifying man pages
  

  practices
  

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• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
  

  compsci education practices unix
  

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• Why I don't think AGI is imminent
  

  ai
  

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• Choosing a Language Based on its Syntax?
  

  design plt programming
  

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• What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
  

  privacy
  

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• State of Clojure 2025 Results
  

  clojure practices
  

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• Linux CVE assignment process
  

  linux security
  

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• AI makes you boring
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 30, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• "a bootstrap chain for NixOS which builds the whole system from a small hand-auditable binary seed"
  

  nix security
  

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• 30 years of ReactOS
  

  osdev
  

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• Phantom Obligation
  

  design web
  

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• 9front "GEFS SERVICE PACK 1" released
  

  osdev release
  

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• How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications (2023)
  

  design
  

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• Some notes on starting to use Django
  

  python web
  

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• Ariel OS is a library operating system for secure, memory-safe, low-power Internet of Things, written in Rust
  

  hardware rust
  

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• I still don't understand this SYN attack, but now I can block it easily
  

  networking security
  

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• Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail
  

  freebsd mac
  

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• Why I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0
  

  graphics
  

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• There and Back Again: From Quickstrom to Bombadil
  

  testing web
  

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• Bf-Tree A Modern Concurrent Larger-Than-Memory Range Index
  

  compsci databases rust
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• People cannot "just pay attention" to (boring, routine) things
  

  cogsci
  

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• Are arrays functions?
  

  plt
  

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• Everything Wrong with Material 3 Expressive
  

  android design
  

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• The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
  

  css rant web
  

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• Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14)
  

  linux
  

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• Writing First, Tooling Second
  

  culture
  

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• My thoughts on Gas Town after 10,000 hours of Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• river-classic: river 0.3.x forever
  

  linux
  

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• A Tale of UDP tracking: Hytale server auto stop and start with systemd
  

  systemd
  

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• Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm
  

  devops nix
  

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• air traffic control: the IBM 9020
  

  historical
  

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• The Only Two Markup Languages
  

  compsci
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 11, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tag Proposal: logic-lang
  

  meta
  

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• Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak
  

  debugging zig
  

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• Prompting 101: Show, don’t tell
  

  vibecoding
  

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• How I use Jujutsu
  

  vcs
  

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• Shell scripts
  

  devops programming
  

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• How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster
  

  performance python
  

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• slidge.im - Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks
  

  networking
  

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• Pulling a New Proof from Knuth’s Fixed-Point Printer
  

  compsci
  

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• Answer Set Programming (2019)
  

  book pdf compsci
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust
  

  show rust vibecoding
  

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• Type inference of all constructs and the next 15 months
  

  elixir
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tailwind Labs loses 80% of revenue and 75% of engineering due to AI
  

  audio css
  

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• ACM is Now Fully Open Access
  

  compsci
  

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• What Happened To WebAssembly
  

  wasm
  

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• Relax for the same result (2015)
  

  person practices science
  

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• embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
  

  hardware rust
  

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• The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14
  

  debugging haskell release
  

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• How I program in AWK
  

  programming
  

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• Open Source Mapping for News: Reuters
  

  practices visualization
  

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• Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP
  

  cryptography
  

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• Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid
  

  philosophy programming
  

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• Effortless animations with CSS view transitions
  

  css web
  

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• NES Top Gun: landing hotfix
  

  games reversing
  

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