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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 31, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• No, Cloudflare's Matrix server isn't an earnest project
  

  distributed vibecoding
  

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• Solving Fossil's ASCII art CAPTCHA in 171 characters
  

  security
  

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• 10 Years of Wasm: A Retrospective
  

  wasm
  

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• Email experiments: filtering out external images
  

  email
  

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• Backseat Software
  

  design
  

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• How AI Impacts Skill Formation
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Coding Is When We’re Least Productive
  

  programming
  

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• Google Disrupts Large Residential Proxy Network
  

  networking security web
  

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• GNU Units
  

  c math
  

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• The Dank Case For Scrolling Window Managers
  

  linux
  

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• Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees
  

  devops distributed release
  

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• What are you doing this weekend?
  

  ask programming
  

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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 26, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• AI tribalism
  

  vibecoding
  

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• I Was Right About ATProto Key Management
  

  distributed
  

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• Home router recommendations
  

  ask networking
  

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• The Value of Things
  

  vibecoding
  

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• A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing
  

  design
  

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• Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires
  

  hardware
  

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• Welcome to Town Al-Gasr
  

  satire vibecoding
  

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• Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity
  

  nix
  

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• I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog
  

  web
  

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• MikroTik first look and getting started
  

  networking
  

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• The IndieWeb and Small web
  

  culture
  

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• Welcome to the "Email Expiration Date" initiative
  

  email
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 24, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
  

  security
  

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• GNU Guix 1.5.0 released
  

  nix
  

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• AGENTS.md as a dark signal
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
  

  networking performance vibecoding
  

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• What has Docker become?
  

  devops
  

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• Selectively Disabling HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1
  

  networking
  

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• We built a museum exhibit about a 1990s game hint line, with a physical binder
  

  games
  

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• Explainer: Tree-sitter vs. LSP
  

  editors programming
  

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• remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk with systemd initrd on Arch
  

  linux systemd
  

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• The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly
  

  compilers lisp wasm
  

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• CTA Hierarchy in the Wild
  

  design
  

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• Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly
  

  lisp wasm
  

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