Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for February 16, 2026. Featuring: Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database, Running My Own XMPP Server, MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings, Ghidra by NSA, Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents, and more.
Stories covered:
1. 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/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034713
2. Running My Own XMPP Server
https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/xmpp-turn-stun-coturn-prosody/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034801
3. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033328
4. Ghidra by NSA
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011548
5. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032876
6. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580
7. I’m joining OpenAI
https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028013
8. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2026/ocr-textbooks-modal-deepseek/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988538
9. The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/the-israeli-spyware-firm-that-accidentally
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033976
10. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033622
