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 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 28, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
  

  distributed rant vibecoding
  

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• But how to get to that European cloud?
  

  law philosophy
  

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• Xfwl4: The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor
  

  linux rust
  

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• Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow
  

  games graphics
  

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• Arcan Explained – A browser for different webs
  

  browsers web
  

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• Bugs Apple Loves
  

  mac
  

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• I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software
  

  law programming
  

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• Microsoft obeys court orders to provide Windows BitLocker recovery keys
  

  cryptography security windows
  

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• Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge (Winter 2025-2026)
  

  nix python vibecoding
  

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• t: a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of Unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq
  

  unix vibecoding
  

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• Nixtamal: Fulfilling, Pure Input Pinning for Nix
  

  show nix
  

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• Blocking Claude
  

  networking
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 22, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Reliable Signals of Honest Intent
  

  vibecoding
  

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• FOSS for digital sovereignty in the EU
  

  law
  

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• I Made Zig Compute 33 Million Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required
  

  performance zig
  

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• I got into an argument on Discord about how inefficient CBR/CBZ is, so I wrote a new file format
  

  performance
  

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• So, why *should* GNOME support server side decorations?
  

  linux
  

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• Rust's standard library on the GPU
  

  graphics rust
  

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• Nested Code Fences in Markdown
  

  practices
  

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• The Jule Programming Language
  

  plt
  

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• Little Sound Dj
  

  games retrocomputing
  

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• Skip Is Now Free and Open Source
  

  android ios swift
  

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• Building a javascript runtime in one month
  

  javascript
  

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• Why not tail recursion?
  

  plt
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
  

  vim
  

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• A Website To End All Websites
  

  web
  

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• 6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available
  

  networking security
  

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• ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
  

  graphics visualization
  

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• smalloc: a simple memory allocator
  

  rust
  

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• kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
  

  plt
  

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• READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust
  

  linux rust
  

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• I hotreload Rust and so can you
  

  rust
  

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• Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision
  

  rust
  

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• Cutting LLM token Usage by ~80% using REPL driven document analysis
  

  lisp programming vibecoding
  

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• Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026
  

  design
  

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• What are your favorite drawing libraries?
  

  ask visualization
  

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