top 10 hacker news stories for 2026-02-16

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

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

6 months ago

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/

6 months ago

What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You

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

6 months ago

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/

6 months ago

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

https://jmail.world/jemini

6 months ago

Rise of the Triforce

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/

6 months ago

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

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

6 months ago

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

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

6 months ago

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 months ago

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

6 months ago