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

• how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
  

  security
  

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• Current - An RSS reader
  

  design mobile
  

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• Paged Out! #8
  

  pdf ai programming security
  

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• Bruteforcing the Bitwarden master password I forgor
  

  cryptography reversing
  

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• Notes on clarifying man pages
  

  practices
  

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• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education
  

  compsci education practices unix
  

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• Why I don't think AGI is imminent
  

  ai
  

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• Choosing a Language Based on its Syntax?
  

  design plt programming
  

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• What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
  

  privacy
  

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• State of Clojure 2025 Results
  

  clojure practices
  

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• Linux CVE assignment process
  

  linux security
  

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• AI makes you boring
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 10, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Proposal: Add Hotness -.25 to Vibe Coding
  

  meta
  

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• Offpunk 3.0
  

  show browsers
  

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• Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth
  

  release rust
  

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• The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)
  

  editors
  

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• Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
  

  privacy security
  

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• six thoughts on generating c
  

  compilers
  

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• miniKanren.org
  

  logiclangs
  

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• Computers can be understood
  

  philosophy programming
  

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• You Are Here
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The little bool of doom
  

  c debugging
  

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• Rebuilding my home network with VLANs and 10Gbps
  

  networking
  

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• I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand
  

  vibecoding
  

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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 29, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
  

  vibecoding
  

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• The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management
  

  c python rust
  

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• UEFIGame: "Win -> Boot, Lose -> Shutdown"
  

  games
  

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• It is incorrect to “normalize” // in HTTP URL paths
  

  web
  

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• Use “\A...\z”, not “^...$” with Python regular expressions
  

  python
  

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• The Rise of Sanityware
  

  web
  

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• Why AI Coding Advice Contradicts Itself
  

  vibecoding
  

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• make.ts
  

  practices
  

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• Places to Telnet
  

  networking
  

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• A "Pure Go" Linux environment, written by Claude
  

  go vibecoding
  

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• MonkeyBall Online
  

  games web
  

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• Barev - XMPP flavoured p2p protocol
  

  distributed linux networking privacy
  

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