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 February 01, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• FOSDEM 2026 - Live Streaming
  

  video event
  

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• Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User
  

  nix
  

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• The State Of Garnet, 2026
  

  plt
  

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• Some Data Should Be Code
  

  programming
  

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• Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Book of Verse
  

  games plt
  

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• Automatic programming
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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• The imminent risk of vibe coding
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox
  

  vibecoding virtualization
  

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• Subtypes and status-dependent data: pure relational approach
  

  databases
  

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• Outsourcing thinking
  

  philosophy
  

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• Six Simple Sudoku Solvers: Prolog
  

  logiclangs
  

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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 21, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
  

  education
  

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• Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast
  

  go math performance
  

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• Prediction: Within 15 years Microsoft will discontinue Windows in favor of a Windows themed Linux distribution
  

  linux windows
  

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• Why ALTER TABLE is such a problem for SQLite
  

  databases
  

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• Personal infrastructure setup 2026
  

  linux
  

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• Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations
  

  databases performance
  

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• The lost art of XML
  

  programming rant
  

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• AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms (2025)
  

  vibecoding
  

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• LLMs and your career
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Type-safe eval in Grace
  

  plt
  

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• Lessons from creating a gaming-oriented scheduler
  

  games linux
  

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• My week with opencode
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 20, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• People cannot "just pay attention" to (boring, routine) things
  

  cogsci
  

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• Are arrays functions?
  

  plt
  

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• Everything Wrong with Material 3 Expressive
  

  android design
  

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• The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
  

  css rant web
  

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• Removal of GTK2 from forky (Debian 14)
  

  linux
  

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• Writing First, Tooling Second
  

  culture
  

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• My thoughts on Gas Town after 10,000 hours of Claude Code
  

  vibecoding
  

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• river-classic: river 0.3.x forever
  

  linux
  

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• A Tale of UDP tracking: Hytale server auto stop and start with systemd
  

  systemd
  

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• Clan 2025 Wrap-Up: From Infrastructure to a New Computing Paradigm
  

  devops nix
  

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• air traffic control: the IBM 9020
  

  historical
  

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• The Only Two Markup Languages
  

  compsci
  

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