Hacker News top 30 - 2026-02-17
- I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? mastodon.world - 890 comments 1420 points
- 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight www.smithsonianmag.com - 110 comments 571 points
- Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK’s largest court reporting database www.legalcheek.com - 337 comments 493 points
- Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents qwen.ai - 190 comments 407 points
- What your Bluetooth devices reveal blog.dmcc.io - 144 comments 378 points
- Anthropic tries to hide Claude’s AI actions. Devs hate it www.theregister.com - 225 comments 372 points
- Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD mashable.com - 289 comments 350 points
- UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment www.rockpapershotgun.com - 110 comments 344 points
- Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse www.bbc.com - 169 comments 333 points
- SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks arxiv.org - 137 comments 326 points
- AI is destroying open source, and it’s not even good yet www.jeffgeerling.com - 247 comments 318 points
- Use protocols, not services notnotp.com - 104 comments 282 points
- Privilege is bad grammar tadaima.bearblog.dev - 251 comments 270 points
- The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself ahmedeldin.substack.com - 258 comments 253 points
- Running My Own XMPP Server blog.dmcc.io - 132 comments 218 points
- Rise of the Triforce dolphin-emu.org - 21 comments 210 points
- Show HN: Free Alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue github.com - 75 comments 158 points
- The Sideprocalypse johan.hal.se - 124 comments 152 points
- MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings github.com - 60 comments 151 points
- I guess I kinda get why people hate AI anthony.noided.media - 238 comments 148 points
- Robert Duvall has died www.nytimes.com - 69 comments 138 points
- WebMCP Proposal webmachinelearning.github.io - 71 comments 135 points
- Wero – Digital payment wallet, made in Europe wero-wallet.eu - 105 comments 123 points
- Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code github.com - 67 comments 122 points
- AI optimism is a class privilege joshcollinsworth.com - 114 comments 118 points
- How to take a photo with scotch tape - lensless imaging - video www.youtube.com - 6 comments 116 points
- iOS 27 ‘Rave’ Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life www.macrumors.com - 113 comments 110 points
- Suicide Linux - 2009 qntm.org - 58 comments 102 points
- “Token anxiety”, a slot machine by any other name jkap.io - 75 comments 96 points
- How not to answer the salary question adatosystems.com - 77 comments 94 points
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