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 February 19, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• 15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
  

  design
  

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• Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
  

  linux
  

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• Oat, Ultra-lightweight UI library, Semantic, minimal, zero dependencies
  

  web
  

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• Using go fix to modernize Go code
  

  go
  

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• What's cooking on SourceHut? Q1 2026
  

  devops
  

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• DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation
  

  networking security
  

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• One page of async Rust
  

  rust
  

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• Cryptographic Issues in Matrix’s Rust Library Vodozemac
  

  cryptography rant
  

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• The Next Version of Curling IO
  

  gleam
  

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• BarraCUDA: Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs (and more in the future!)
  

  compilers
  

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• The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 14, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Hare 0.26.0 released
  

  plt release
  

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• Apple has a transparency issue
  

  video design ios mac
  

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• Workledger - An offline first engineering notebook
  

  show practices vibecoding
  

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• moss-kernel: Rust Linux-compatible kernel
  

  linux osdev rust
  

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• Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
  

  mac
  

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• .plan files (2020)
  

  practices
  

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• microgpt
  

  ai python
  

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• The Many Flavors of Ignore Files
  

  vcs
  

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• The future for Tyr, a Rust GPU driver for Arm Mali hardware
  

  linux rust
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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• I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Evolving Git for the next decade
  

  vcs
  

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

• vouch: a contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate
  

  practices
  

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• Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing
  

  freebsd networking
  

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• Adventures in Guix Packaging
  

  lisp nix
  

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• Beyond agentic coding
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Don't Get Distracted (2017)
  

  philosophy
  

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• Code injections through Git commit messages
  

  security vcs
  

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• The source code was the moat. But not anymore
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future
  

  video distributed
  

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• Beating an old, but not dead horse: what to do with the KDE Oxygen and Air themes?
  

  design linux
  

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• Busy months in KDE Linux
  

  linux
  

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• Implementing Auto Tiling With Just 5 Tiles
  

  games graphics
  

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• Testing can be fun, actually
  

  gleam practices testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Maple Mono: Open source monospace font
  

  design
  

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• Stories From 25 Years of Software Development
  

  programming
  

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• A Horrible Conclusion
  

  ai security
  

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• (Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Flirt: The Native Backend
  

  vcs
  

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• Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)
  

  linux unix vim
  

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• Updates on GNU/Hurd progress
  

  video osdev
  

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• emacs-tramp-rpc: High-performance TRAMP backend using JSON-RPC instead of shell parsing
  

  emacs
  

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• Seltani: an online, shared, text-based, open-source fan project based on the Myst series of games (2013)
  

  games
  

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• LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements
  

  hardware
  

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• Sysadmin In The LLM Age
  

  devops vibecoding
  

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