The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Please consider tagging a vibecoding griefpost or hypepost as a rant
  

  meta vibecoding
  

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• Is End-to-End Encryption Optional For Large Groups?
  

  cryptography security
  

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• Deep Blue
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
  

  programming
  

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• Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format
  

  web
  

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• Carbon Dysphoria
  

  culture
  

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• open-source-games: A list of open source games
  

  games
  

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• TIL: Docker log rotation
  

  devops
  

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• LT6502: A 6502 based laptop design
  

  hardware retrocomputing
  

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• A simple way to scale pixel art games
  

  graphics
  

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• E2EE, the be all and end all of chat?
  

  cryptography
  

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• Error payloads in Zig
  

  zig
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 15, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – More Things Have Happened
  

  practices security vibecoding
  

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• A programmer's loss of identity
  

  culture vibecoding
  

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• I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers
  

  culture linux
  

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• Supercazzola - Generate spam for web scrapers
  

  release
  

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• Vim 9.2 released
  

  release vim
  

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• New repository settings for configuring pull request access
  

  practices vcs
  

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• What should we do with CLs generated by AI?
  

  go vibecoding
  

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• Thanks for All the Frames: Rust GUI Observations
  

  graphics rust
  

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• Floppy Disks: the best TV remote for kids
  

  hardware
  

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• Arborium is AI slopware and should not be trusted
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Understanding the Go Runtime: The Bootstrap
  

  go
  

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• Nixtamal 1.0.0 released
  

  nix release
  

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

• How I Cut My Google Search Dependence in Half
  

  show go web
  

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• I Wrote a Scheme in 2025
  

  lisp
  

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• Go 1.26 is released
  

  go
  

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• What Functional Programmers Get Wrong About Systems
  

  distributed vibecoding
  

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• The Missing GitHub Status Page
  

  vcs
  

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• Fine, I'll Try AI
  

  rant vibecoding
  

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• Electricity use of AI coding agents
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Any "General" Programming Forums Or Mailing Lists?
  

  ask culture
  

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• Can my SPARC server host a website?
  

  hardware web
  

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• GitButler CLI Is Really Good
  

  vcs
  

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• Better Python tests with inline-snapshot
  

  python testing
  

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• postmarketOS at FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon
  

  event linux mobile
  

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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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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team
  

  practices vcs
  

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• Owning a $5M data center
  

  hardware practices
  

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• jujutsu v0.38.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• On craft and AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Broken proofs and broken provers
  

  math
  

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• writing an RSS reader in 80 lines of bash
  

  show unix
  

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• Wirth's Revenge
  

  performance practices vibecoding
  

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• raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer
  

  video c programming
  

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• A few CPU hardware bugs
  

  hardware
  

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• Stack Overflow Launches (2008)
  

  programming
  

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• Xikipedia Algorithm
  

  visualization
  

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• (Un)portable defer in C
  

  c
  

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