The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on February 08, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Maple Mono: Open source monospace font
  

  design
  

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• Stories From 25 Years of Software Development
  

  programming
  

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• A Horrible Conclusion
  

  ai security
  

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• (Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Flirt: The Native Backend
  

  vcs
  

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• Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)
  

  linux unix vim
  

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• Updates on GNU/Hurd progress
  

  video osdev
  

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• emacs-tramp-rpc: High-performance TRAMP backend using JSON-RPC instead of shell parsing
  

  emacs
  

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• Seltani: an online, shared, text-based, open-source fan project based on the Myst series of games (2013)
  

  games
  

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• LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements
  

  hardware
  

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• Sysadmin In The LLM Age
  

  devops vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 18, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool
  

  vim
  

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• A Website To End All Websites
  

  web
  

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• 6-day and IP Address Certificates are Generally Available
  

  networking security
  

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• ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
  

  graphics visualization
  

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• smalloc: a simple memory allocator
  

  rust
  

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• kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish
  

  plt
  

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• READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust
  

  linux rust
  

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• I hotreload Rust and so can you
  

  rust
  

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• Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision
  

  rust
  

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• Cutting LLM token Usage by ~80% using REPL driven document analysis
  

  lisp programming vibecoding
  

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• Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026
  

  design
  

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• What are your favorite drawing libraries?
  

  ask visualization
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on January 13, 2026 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
  

  a11y design mac
  

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• WhatsApp is untrustable
  

  security
  

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• we rolled our own documentation site
  

  web
  

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• The rise (and future fall) of Discord (2024)
  

  culture historical
  

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• Who are people currently using as hosting providers?
  

  ask web
  

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• Rethinking Helix
  

  editors vim
  

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• Three Inverse Laws of Robotics
  

  practices vibecoding
  

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• The coolest feature in Python 3.14
  

  debugging devops python
  

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• A Typical PDF
  

  programming security
  

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• Turntiles, an NYT style word game I made for my parents
  

  games web
  

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• How to Make a Damn Website
  

  web
  

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• Anthropic blocks third-party tools using Claude Code OAuth tokens
  

  vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on December 07, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Flow Control: a programmer's text editor
  

  editors vim zig
  

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• Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via third-party upgrade kit
  

  hardware
  

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• Reminder about Framework Laptop
  

  culture
  

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• How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM
  

  hardware
  

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• GitHub Actions Has a Package Manager, and It Might Be the Worst
  

  security
  

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• Leaving Intel
  

  performance person
  

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• Should CSS be Constraints?
  

  css
  

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• I want a better build executor
  

  programming
  

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• Perl's decline was cultural
  

  perl
  

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• What's the Point of Learning Functional Programming?
  

  haskell
  

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• Why We Built Lightpanda in Zig
  

  zig
  

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• The Resonant Computing Manifesto
  

  programming vibecoding
  

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The 12 highest-rated articles on Lobsters on November 21, 2025 which have not appeared on any previous Lobsters Daily are:

• Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
  

  programming
  

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• Disallow code usage with a custom `clippy.toml`
  

  rust
  

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• Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification
  

  browsers
  

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• Why BSDs?
  

  freebsd netbsd openbsd
  

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• We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls
  

  freebsd openbsd
  

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• The Lions Operating System
  

  osdev
  

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• Signal Polls: Yes, no, maybe (yes!)
  

  release
  

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• A battery included hacker's file manager with VIM inspired keybind in a single binary
  

  rust vim
  

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• LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful
  

  vibecoding
  

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• Twenty years of Django releases
  

  python web
  

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• Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
  

  games historical
  

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• A Function Inliner for Wasmtime and Cranelift
  

  compilers wasm
  

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