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 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 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 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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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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