Hacker News for Feb 16, 2026

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Today's topics:
-LLMs and common-sense traps
-Qwen3.5 open multimodal MoE
-Agent tools and transparency defaults
-Serverless OCR with DeepSeek
-Unicode MessageFormat 2.0 standard
-Hard-drive shortages from AI demand
-Spyware dashboard leak and OPSEC
-UK court data and open justice
-Modern CSS replacing old hacks

-https://github.com/unicode-org/message-format-wg
-https://mastodon.world/@knowmadd/116072773118828295
-https://qwen.ai/blog
-https://steipete.me/posts/2026/openclaw
-https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2026/ocr-textbooks-modal-deepseek/
-https://mashable.com/article/ai-hard-drive-hdd-shortages-western-digital-sold-out
-https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/the-israeli-spyware-firm-that-accidentally
-https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/ministry-of-justice-orders-deletion-of-the-uks-largest-court-reporting-database/
-https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/anthropic_claude_ai_edits/
-https://modern-css.com/


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