Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 3, 2026. Featuring: What's up with all those equals signs anyway?, Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition, Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API), The Codex App, LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc., and more.
Stories covered:
1. What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals-signs-anyway/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868759
2. Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition
https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/floppinux-2025.html
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866544
3. Show HN: Minikv – Distributed key-value and object store in Rust (Raft, S3 API)
https://github.com/whispem/minikv
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867947
4. The Codex App
https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054
5. LNAI – Define AI coding tool configs once, sync to Claude, Cursor, Codex, etc.
https://github.com/KrystianJonca/lnai
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868318
6. Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankis-growing-up/68610
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861313
7. Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
https://safe-now.live
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868479
8. How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?
https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/hot-mess-of-ai/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864498
9. Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
https://www.millert.dev/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858577
10. GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations
https://www.githubstatus.com?todayis=2026-02-02
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861842
