This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on February 16, 2026.

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(00:30): I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(01:57): 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(03:25): Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034713&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(04:52): Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032876&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(06:20): Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033622&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(07:48): Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034192&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(09:15): What your Bluetooth devices reveal
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(10:43): UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035679&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(12:11): Study: Self-generated Agent Skills are useless
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040430&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

(13:38): Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
Original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031334&utm_source=wondercraft_ai

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February 16th, 2026 | I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

Hacker News Recap