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Hacker News (16 Feb 2026)
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I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
1225 points • 760 comments • feb 16, 2026
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Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
389 points • 258 comments • feb 16, 2026
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Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
297 points • 250 comments • feb 16, 2026
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Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
290 points • 170 comments • feb 16, 2026
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Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
288 points • 128 comments • feb 16, 2026
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The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
223 points • 209 comments • feb 16, 2026
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UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
186 points • 40 comments • feb 16, 2026
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Running My Own XMPP Server
162 points • 93 comments • feb 16, 2026
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JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals
152 points • 182 comments • feb 16, 2026
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What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You
145 points • 53 comments • feb 16, 2026