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 February 04, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• What’s up with all those equals signs anyway?
  

  email
  

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• What's your email setup?
  

  ask email
  

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• Rust in the NetBSD Kernel, and other odd decisions
  

  netbsd
  

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• One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly (2022)
  

  historical scaling
  

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• Rust 1.93 performance improvements in format! and friends
  

  rust
  

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• Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons
  

  mac
  

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• Hacking Moltbook: AI Social Network Reveals 1.5M API Keys
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The largest number representable in 64 bits
  

  math plt
  

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• The Retro Web
  

  retrocomputing
  

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• WhatsApp Encryption, a Lawsuit, and a Lot of Noise
  

  law privacy security
  

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• Plasma Effect
  

  graphics
  

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• Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility
  

  rust unix
  

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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 23, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Lobsters Blog Carnival Announcement
  

  event
  

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• Your App Subscription Is Now My Weekend Project
  

  vibecoding
  

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• An adversarial coding test
  

  security
  

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• Don't Trip[wire] Yourself: Testing Error Recovery in Zig
  

  testing zig
  

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• Hate is a strong word, but I really really really don’t like Windows 11
  

  windows
  

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• Announcing Rust 1.93.0
  

  release rust
  

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• FSNotes 7 - Remarkable fast plain text notes
  

  editors ios mac
  

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• Vibecoding #2
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey
  

  go
  

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• Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi
  

  law web
  

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• SSH has no Host header
  

  networking
  

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• Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines
  

  security
  

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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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