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

• GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team
  

  practices vcs
  

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• Owning a $5M data center
  

  hardware practices
  

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• jujutsu v0.38.0 released
  

  release vcs
  

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• On craft and AI
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Broken proofs and broken provers
  

  math
  

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• writing an RSS reader in 80 lines of bash
  

  show unix
  

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• Wirth's Revenge
  

  performance practices vibecoding
  

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• raylib: a 12-year adventure as a solo-maintainer
  

  video c programming
  

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• A few CPU hardware bugs
  

  hardware
  

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• Stack Overflow Launches (2008)
  

  programming
  

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• Xikipedia Algorithm
  

  visualization
  

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• (Un)portable defer in C
  

  c
  

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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 February 02, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• In Praise of –dry-run
  

  programming
  

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• archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog
  

  security web
  

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• The API Tooling Crisis: Why developers are abandoning Postman and its clones?
  

  api
  

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• Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution
  

  pdf programming
  

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• This year in LLVM (2025)
  

  compilers
  

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• Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware
  

  video debugging hardware
  

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• Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix
  

  nix vibecoding
  

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• git-cola: The highly caffeinated Git GUI
  

  vcs
  

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• Contracts in Nix
  

  nix
  

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• My (very) fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
  

  ml performance
  

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• A 9M-parameter Mandarin pronunciation tutor
  

  ai
  

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• Libreboot 26.01 “Magnanimous Max” released
  

  hardware
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 27, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Why there’s no European Google?
  

  philosophy
  

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• zerobrew is a Rust-based, 5-20x faster drop-in Homebrew alternative
  

  rust vibecoding
  

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• The Enclosure feedback loop, or how LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The state of Linux music players in 2026
  

  linux
  

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• How to think about Gas Town
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Screeps: How a game about programming exposed thousands of players to remote code execution
  

  games security
  

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• Apple, What Have You Done?
  

  mac
  

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• McCLIM and 7GUIs - Part 1: The Counter
  

  lisp programming
  

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• sysp: Systems Lisp compiling to C with homoiconic macros, refcounted memory, Hindley-Milner type inference
  

  lisp
  

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• Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
  

  linux mac
  

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• Exploring Linux on a LoongArch Mini PC
  

  hardware linux
  

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• Allowlist for .gitignore
  

  vcs
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 25, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• December in Servo
  

  browsers release
  

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• How I estimate work as a staff software engineer
  

  practices
  

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• e9p - pure Erlang 9p implementation
  

  show erlang
  

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• Firefox & Linux in 2025
  

  browsers linux
  

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• Considering Strictly Monotonic Time
  

  programming
  

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• (Open) Widevine support added to the chromium port
  

  browsers openbsd
  

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• Interfaces and traits in C
  

  c
  

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• Obvious Things C Should Do
  

  c
  

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• Coi - WebAssembly for the Modern Web
  

  wasm web
  

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• modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space
  

  linux
  

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• Why a God Can't Play A Link to the Past
  

  video games
  

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• Maintaining shadow branches for GitHub PRs
  

  vcs vibecoding
  

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