Hacker News on Monday, 16 February 2026

Stories posted this day, by points. Rank history starts with the October 2026 rebuild.

Screenshot of mastodon.world: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

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

1353 points by novemp 8 months ago | 837 comments

A Mastodon post presenting the riddle-like question of whether to walk or drive to a car wash 50 meters away, likely highlighting LLM reasoning failures.

llm-reasoning chatbot-failures mastodon

Screenshot of smithsonianmag.com: 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight (smithsonianmag.com)

864 points by bookofjoe 8 months ago | 184 comments

Smithsonian magazine article about 14-year-old Miles Wu, whose Miura-ori origami variant holds 10,000 times its weight, aimed at emergency shelter design.

origami miura-ori emergency-shelters engineering

Screenshot of blog.dmcc.io: What your Bluetooth devices reveal

What your Bluetooth devices reveal (blog.dmcc.io)

501 points by ssgodderidge 8 months ago | 182 comments

A personal blog journal post from January 2026 about what nearby Bluetooth devices reveal about their owners, apparently introducing a tool called Bluehood.

bluetooth privacy tracking bluehood

Screenshot of legalcheek.com: Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database

Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database (legalcheek.com)

467 points by harel 8 months ago | 318 comments

Legal Cheek news article reporting that the UK Ministry of Justice has ordered deletion of the country's largest court reporting database.

ministry-of-justice court-reporting open-justice uk-courts

Screenshot of jmail.world: Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files (jmail.world)

438 points by dvrp 8 months ago | 83 comments

Jemini is a Gemini-style AI chat interface parody for querying the Epstein files, including emails, flight records, court documents, and purchases.

epstein-files gemini-parody llm-chatbot document-search

Screenshot of dolphin-emu.org: Rise of the Triforce

Rise of the Triforce (dolphin-emu.org)

402 points by max-m 8 months ago | 63 comments

Dolphin Emulator blog post about the Triforce arcade platform, a Sega/Namco/Nintendo arcade board based on GameCube hardware, and its emulation.

dolphin-emulator triforce arcade emulation

Screenshot of qwen.ai: Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents

Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (qwen.ai)

393 points by danielhanchen 8 months ago | 182 comments

Qwen team blog post announcing Qwen3.5, a model family aimed at native multimodal agent capabilities.

qwen qwen3-5 alibaba multimodal-models

Screenshot of arxiv.org: SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks

SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks (arxiv.org)

333 points by mustaphah 8 months ago | 142 comments

arXiv paper presenting SkillsBench, a benchmark of 86 tasks across 11 domains measuring whether structured Agent Skills improve LLM agent performance.

llm-agents agent-skills benchmarks skillsbench

Screenshot of theregister.com: Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it

Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it (theregister.com)

317 points by beardyw 8 months ago | 194 comments

The Register article on Anthropic changing Claude Code's progress output to hide file names it reads and edits, and developer backlash over the change.

claude-code anthropic ai-coding-tools developer-experience

Screenshot of rockpapershotgun.com: UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment