Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 3, 2026.

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:13) - xAI joins SpaceX
  • (01:28) - The Codex App
  • (02:31) - Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
  • (03:36) - The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
  • (04:53) - Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
  • (05:57) - Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
  • (07:08) - Hacking Moltbook
  • (08:12) - 4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
  • (09:21) - Zig Libc
  • (10:19) - Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
  • (11:29) - Outro

xAI joins SpaceX
https://www.spacex.com/updates#xai-joins-spacex
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862170

The Codex App
https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years
https://www.millert.dev/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858577

The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
https://www.frommers.com/tips/airfare/the-tsa-new-45-fee-to-fly-without-id-is-illegal-says-regulatory-expert/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863162

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub
https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankis-growing-up/68610
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861313

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/court-orders-restart-of-all-us-offshore-wind-construction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863112

Hacking Moltbook
https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857615

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/4x-faster-network-file-sync-rclone-vs-rsync/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820142

Zig Libc
https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-01-31
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858622

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works
https://neutree.ai/blog/nano-vllm-part-1
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855447

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Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.