Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

Here are the job postings summarized in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

Linux From Scratch Ends SysVinit Support

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EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair

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Official websites use .gov A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS A lock (A locked padlock) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works

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Nano-vLLM is a minimal yet production-grade implementation of an inference engine that distills the core ideas behind vLLM, one of the most widely adopted open-source inference engines. It implements essential features like prefix caching, tensor parallelism, CUDA graph compilation, and torch compilation optimizations to achieve throughput comparable to or even slightly exceeding the full ...

Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena

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Google DeepMind expanded Game Arena with Werewolf and poker benchmarks to test AI models on social dynamics and risk management. The new benchmarks will help track model progress and evaluate agentic safety in complex environments.

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

User had slow rsync transfers from network share to local drive, maxing out at 350 MB/sec. Rclone with parallel transfers was 4x faster, maxing out at 1 GB/sec.

They lied to you. Building software is hard

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Using no-code and AI tools can give the illusion of progress but may slow you down in the long run. The harder it is to acquire skills, the more valuable they tend to be, making experience and expertise more valuable than relying on tools.

Hacking Moltbook: The AI Social Network Any Human Can Control

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A security researcher discovered a Supabase database misconfiguration on Moltbook, a social network for AI agents, allowing full read and write access to all platform data. The issue was fixed within hours, but not before 4.75 million records were exposed, including API keys, email addresses, and private messages.

The Codex App

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Codex app for macOS is a powerful interface for managing multiple agents, running work in parallel, and collaborating on long tasks. It includes features like skills, automations, and personality settings to enhance developer productivity.

Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

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Todd C. Miller – sudo Maintainer for over 30 years

The page is outdated and useful information is in the links. The author, a long-time sudo maintainer, seeks a sponsor for continued sudo maintenance and development.

Being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

Multiple individuals are seeking remote work opportunities in various tech fields, including software engineering, data engineering, DevOps, and design, with experience in languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java. They are looking for full-time, part-time, or contract work in companies with room to grow and interesting technical challenges.

My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml

The user has been eager to use OxCaml for real-world projects, particularly for its performance benefits and modularity, and has been building a high-performance HTTP/1.1 parser called httpz using OxCaml's unboxed types and local allocations. The parser aims to have no major heap allocation and minimal minor heap allocation, allowing for efficient handling of HTTP connections and reducing ...

Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

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The user helped an accounting firm move away from legacy software and discovered a hardware copy-protection dongle required for an RPG compiler. The dongle's purpose was to verify a constant number stored in the BX register.

IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder

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Build the ultimate theme park with thrilling roller coasters, exciting rides, and happy guests!

Valanza – my Unix way for weight tracking and anlysis

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The tool is a weight tracking system built using small, composable UNIX programs working together through pipes. It separates data and logic, allowing for different languages to be used for different tasks.

Tomo: A statically typed, imperative language that cross-compiles to C [video]

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

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Microsoft is adopting Anthropic's Claude Code across its engineering teams, allowing nontechnical employees to prototype ideas with AI. This move could lead to Microsoft selling Claude Code directly to its cloud customers, putting pressure on junior developer roles.

Solvingn the Santa Claus concurrency puzzle with a model checker

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The Santa Claus concurrency puzzle involves Santa serving either nine reindeer or three elves, with a waiting group of reindeer being served before a waiting group of elves, and a model checker was used to validate its correctness. A Promela model was created to simulate the puzzle, and three failure scenarios were identified and corrected, with the final correct model using rooms to separate ...

Kernighan on Programming

The author discusses the challenges of debugging code and the importance of testing, citing a quote by Kernighan that clever code is often hard to debug. They express skepticism about the value of tests in their experience.

My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs

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The iPhone 16 Pro Max had a hardware defect in its Neural Engine, causing incorrect numerical values in MLX LLMs. The issue was resolved with a new iPhone 17 Pro Max, confirming the hardware defect was specific to the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Termux

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Termux is a terminal emulator app for Android that allows users to install packages and run commands. It has a GitHub repository and can be installed from various sources, including F-Droid and Google Play.

Hypergrowth isn’t always easy

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Tailscale experienced some uptime issues in the last month, but the company is committed to transparency and continuous improvement. They are working on reducing downtime and improving their system architecture to make it more resilient.

Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong

The user had trouble updating macOS on an external disk due to incorrect DFU port usage and a security policy issue. Changing the port and setting the disk as the startup disk resolved the issue.

Show HN: Stelvio – Ship Python to AWS

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AWS infrastructure framework for Python – deploy serverless apps with Lambda, API Gateway, CloudFront, and more.

Library of Juggling

The Library of Juggling is a website cataloging various juggling patterns, including animations and tutorials. It aims to archive and make accessible juggling tricks, but is currently on an indefinite hiatus.

Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

Xikipedia is a demo social feed showing Simple Wikipedia content based on user engagement. It runs locally, collecting no data, but may display NSFW content due to random Wikipedia articles.

Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

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NanoClaw is a lightweight, secure, and customizable AI assistant that runs in Apple containers. It uses a small codebase and allows users to customize it with skills, eliminating configuration sprawl.

Ian's Shoelace Site

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Ian Fieggen, also known as "Professor Shoelace", created Ian's Shoelace Site, a website about shoelaces with tutorials, photos, and interactive tools. The site has over 300 pages and offers various shoelace knots, lacing methods, and information on shoelace construction.