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 17, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why is Zig so Cool?
  

  zig
  

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• Modern Java
  

  java
  

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• HTTP RateLimit headers
  

  api web
  

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• Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
  

  law vibecoding
  

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• Glasgow Interface Explorer Code of Conduct
  

  culture practices
  

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• The people who built Wikipedia, technically (2021)
  

  culture historical
  

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• Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news
  

  go retrocomputing
  

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• OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
  

  mac openbsd
  

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• A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 9, part 1: Decoding Dolby
  

  android security
  

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• MySQL vs PostgreSQL Performance: throughput & latency, reads & writes
  

  databases
  

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• To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Integration tests are best tests
  

  go testing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 23, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Thirteen years of Rust and the birth of Rue
  

  plt vibecoding
  

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• I’m a former CTO. Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out 50% of unqualified applicants
  

  practices
  

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• Debian’s git transition
  

  linux vcs
  

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• I Program on the Subway
  

  programming
  

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• Logging Sucks - Your Logs Are Lying To You
  

  debugging
  

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• What’s new in Python 3.15
  

  python
  

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• Lua 5.5 Released
  

  lua release
  

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• ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun
  

  programming
  

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• Exploring Speculative JIT Compilation for Emacs Lisp with Java
  

  compilers emacs java
  

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• An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker
  

  linux
  

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• Inverse parentheses
  

  plt
  

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• The Texas Instruments CC-40 invades Gopherspace (plus TI-74 BASICALC)
  

  retrocomputing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 29, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The CRDT Dictionary: A Field Guide to Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
  

  databases distributed scaling
  

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• Help, My Java Object Vanished (and the GC is Not at Fault)
  

  debugging java
  

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• Bauble
  

  graphics programming
  

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• Electron vs. Tauri
  

  javascript rust
  

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• ML-KEM Mythbusting
  

  cryptography math security
  

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• An update on the farphone's battery
  

  linux
  

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• Bringing Emacs Support to OCaml's LSP Server with ocaml-eglot
  

  editors emacs ml
  

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• A foundation for building tools on the AT Protocol using Unison
  

  distributed release
  

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• The Unbrickable Pledge
  

  hardware
  

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• How good engineers write bad code at big companies
  

  programming
  

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• Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
  

  debugging emacs perl
  

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• Bending Emacs - Episode 6: Overlays
  

  video emacs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 06, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Mr TIFF
  

  historical
  

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• A Short Survey of Compiler Targets
  

  compilers
  

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• You don't need Kafka: Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals
  

  ruby unix
  

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• Things I Don't Like in Configuration Languages
  

  rant
  

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• Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages
  

  programming
  

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• Disassembling Terabytes of Random Data with Zig and Capstone to Prove a Point
  

  programming zig
  

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• I made a website that vibe-codes itself
  

  vibecoding web
  

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• JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective
  

  java reversing
  

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• What is cosh(List(Bool))? Or beyond algebra: analysis of data types
  

  formalmethods math
  

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• Strange Attractors
  

  math programming visualization
  

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• Announcing the Rust Foundation Maintainers Fund
  

  rust
  

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• On Async Mutexes
  

  plt zig
  

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