DTF:HN for February 2, 2026

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