Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 2, 2026. Featuring: Termux, Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle, Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works, My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml, Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library, and more.
Stories covered:
1. Termux
https://github.com/termux/termux-app
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854642
2. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849567
3. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
https://neutree.ai/blog/nano-vllm-part-1
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855447
4. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
https://anil.recoil.org/notes/oxcaml-httpz
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854534
5. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library
https://github.com/rustrum/apate
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845097
6. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849258
7. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/2/1.html
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852096
8. MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China
https://www.koi.ai/blog/maliciouscorgi-the-cute-looking-ai-extensions-leaking-code-from-1-5-million-developers
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855527
9. Ratchets in software development (2021)
https://qntm.org/ratchet
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814340
10. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
https://xikipedia.org
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850803
