top 50% 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

9 hours ago

975 upvotes – 627 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

3 hours ago

195 upvotes – 155 comments

The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself

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

3 hours ago

183 upvotes – 151 comments

JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals

https://sgom.es/posts/2026-02-13-js-heavy-approaches-are-not-compatible-with-long-term-performance-goals/

15 hours ago

132 upvotes – 150 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/

2 hours ago

181 upvotes – 121 comments

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

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

4 hours ago

162 upvotes – 101 comments

Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/12/arm-wants-a-bigger-slice-of-the-chip-business

13 hours ago

124 upvotes – 80 comments

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

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

6 hours ago

192 upvotes – 80 comments

Building SQLite with a small swarm

https://kiankyars.github.io/machine_learning/2026/02/12/sqlite.html

10 hours ago

88 upvotes – 73 comments

Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/pink-noise-reduces-rem-sleep-and-may-harm-sleep-quality

15 hours ago

99 upvotes – 68 comments

MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings

https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg

5 hours ago

110 upvotes – 45 comments

picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code

https://github.com/antirez/picol

7 hours ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Running My Own XMPP Server

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

2 hours ago

65 upvotes – 25 comments

Canada Gives U.S. Arms Makers the Cold Shoulder on Military Spending

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/world/canada/canada-military-spending.html

15 hours ago

53 upvotes – 8 comments
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