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 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 January 09, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Tailwind Labs loses 80% of revenue and 75% of engineering due to AI
  

  audio css
  

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• ACM is Now Fully Open Access
  

  compsci
  

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• What Happened To WebAssembly
  

  wasm
  

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• Relax for the same result (2015)
  

  person practices science
  

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• embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
  

  hardware rust
  

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• The Haskell Debugger for GHC 9.14
  

  debugging haskell release
  

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• How I program in AWK
  

  programming
  

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• Open Source Mapping for News: Reuters
  

  practices visualization
  

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• Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP
  

  cryptography
  

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• Dialogue Between a Developer and a Kid
  

  philosophy programming
  

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• Effortless animations with CSS view transitions
  

  css web
  

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• NES Top Gun: landing hotfix
  

  games reversing
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 06, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
  

  design ios mac
  

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• Everything You Need to Know About Email Encryption in 2026
  

  email security
  

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• How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem
  

  culture vcs
  

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• 21 Lessons From 14 Years at Google
  

  practices
  

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• Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
  

  databases
  

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• Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1
  

  hardware reversing
  

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• Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them
  

  rust
  

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• Go 1.26 interactive tour
  

  go
  

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• Utopian Scholastic
  

  philosophy
  

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• 4 Ways to Improve A Perfect Join Algorithm
  

  databases
  

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• Decorative Cryptography
  

  cryptography security
  

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• CheriBSD: FreeBSD that takes advantage of CHERI
  

  freebsd osdev security
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 16, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• My gift to the rustdoc team
  

  rust wasm
  

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• Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse
  

  cryptography
  

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• Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
  

  unix
  

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• Let's write a toy UI library
  

  programming
  

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• Top Gun's Carrier Landing: Exposed
  

  reversing
  

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• Rust's v0 mangling scheme in a nutshell
  

  rust
  

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• "Careless Whisper" side-channel attack affects WhatsApp and Signal
  

  security
  

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• L5: A Processing Library in Lua for Interactive Artwork
  

  graphics lua
  

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• Advent of Swift
  

  swift
  

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• Tier list of Linux security mechanisms (2024)
  

  linux security
  

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• ClickHaskell 1.0.0 is out
  

  haskell release
  

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• 30 Years of <br> Tags
  

  historical web
  

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