top 10 hacker news stories for today

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295

14 hours ago

1316 upvotes – 808 comments

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/ministry-of-justice-orders-deletion-of-the-uks-largest-court-reporting-database/

7 hours ago

451 upvotes – 304 comments

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5

11 hours ago

329 upvotes – 153 comments

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/

10 hours ago

327 upvotes – 200 comments

Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD

https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out

8 hours ago

319 upvotes – 268 comments

UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/good-news-uk-discord-users-were-part-of-a-peter-thiel-linked-data-collection-experiment

6 hours ago

278 upvotes – 69 comments

The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself

https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/the-israeli-spyware-firm-that-accidentally

9 hours ago

232 upvotes – 228 comments

What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You

https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/

6 hours ago

209 upvotes – 77 comments

Use Protocols, Not Services

https://notnotp.com/notes/use-protocols-not-services/

2 hours ago

205 upvotes – 51 comments

Running My Own XMPP Server

https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/xmpp-turn-stun-coturn-prosody/

7 hours ago

185 upvotes – 115 comments
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