Hacker News for Feb 1, 2026

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Today's topics:
-Carrier-requested GPS location privacy
-Zero-trust networking without VPNs
-Minimal AI coding agent tools
-Scaling architecture to 10M users
-OpenBSD PF firewall essentials
-Cheap Thunderbolt 25GbE reality
-FOSDEM sovereignty and self-hosting
-Animal naming game mechanics
-Amiga UNIX preserved in wiki
-Rands on real 10x engineers

-https://netbird.io/
-https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
-https://blog.algomaster.io/p/scaling-a-system-from-0-to-10-million-users
-https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
-https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
-https://randsinrepose.com/archives/sometimes-your-job-is-to-stay-the-hell-out-of-the-way/
-https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/01/27/tb25/
-https://rose.systems/animalist/
-https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
-https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home


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