Hacker News for Feb 2, 2026

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Today's topics:
-Malicious VS Code AI extensions
-Termux security and Android limits
-Nano-vLLM and LLM serving
-OxCaml zero-allocation HTTP parsing
-Apple DFU port update failures
-iPhone hardware breaking on-device LLMs
-Reverse-engineering a parallel dongle
-Apate API mocking for tests
-Ratchet linting to stop rot

-https://github.com/termux/termux-app
-https://neutree.ai/blog/nano-vllm-part-1
-https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
-https://anil.recoil.org/notes/oxcaml-httpz
-https://journal.rafaelcosta.me/my-thousand-dollar-iphone-cant-do-math/
-https://www.koi.ai/blog/maliciouscorgi-the-cute-looking-ai-extensions-leaking-code-from-1-5-million-developers
-https://github.com/rustrum/apate
-https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/2/1.html
-https://qntm.org/ratchet


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