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 February 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• In Praise of –dry-run
  

  programming
  

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• archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog
  

  security web
  

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• The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?
  

  api
  

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• Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
  

  pdf programming
  

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• This year in LLVM (2025)
  

  compilers
  

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• Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware
  

  video debugging hardware
  

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• Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI
  

  vcs
  

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• Contracts in Nix
  

  nix
  

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• My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
  

  ml performance
  

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• A 9M-parameter Mandarin pronunciation tutor
  

  ai
  

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• Libreboot 26.01 “Magnanimous Max” released
  

  hardware
  

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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 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why there’s no European Google?
  

  philosophy
  

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• zerobrew is a Rust-based, 5-20x faster drop-in Homebrew alternative
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• The Enclosure feedback loop, or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The state of Linux music players in 2026
  

  linux
  

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• How to think about Gas Town
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Screeps: How a game about programming exposed thousands of players to remote code execution
  

  games security
  

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• Apple, What Have You Done?
  

  mac
  

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• McCLIM and 7GUIs - Part 1: The Counter
  

  lisp programming
  

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• sysp: Systems Lisp compiling to C with homoiconic macros, refcounted memory, Hindley-Milner type inference
  

  lisp
  

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• Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
  

  linux mac
  

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• Exploring Linux on a LoongArch Mini PC
  

  hardware linux
  

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• Allowlist for .gitignore
  

  vcs
  

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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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