33: 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
   (Article | HN Discussion)
2. Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
   (Article | HN Discussion)
3. Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
   (Article | HN Discussion)
4. My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
   (Article | HN Discussion)
5. Show HN: Apate API mocking/prototyping server and Rust unit test library
   (Article | HN Discussion)
6. My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs
   (Article | HN Discussion)
7. Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
   (Article | HN Discussion)
8. MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China
   (Article | HN Discussion)
9. Ratchets in software development (2021)
   (Article | HN Discussion)
10. Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed
    (Article | HN Discussion)