47: DTF:HN for February 16, 2026

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
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 0:31)
2. Running My Own XMPP Server
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 3:30)
3. MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 5:32)
4. Ghidra by NSA
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 9:22)
5. Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 12:18)
6. I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 15:26)
7. I’m joining OpenAI
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 18:32)
8. Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 22:38)
9. The Israeli spyware firm that accidentally just exposed itself
   (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 25:41)
10. Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
    (Article | HN Discussion | 🎧 28:51)