Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Feb 17, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:21) - 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
• (01:38) - What your Bluetooth devices reveal
• (02:35) - Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
• (03:36) - Ghidra by NSA
• (04:37) - Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
• (05:28) - Rise of the Triforce
• (06:38) - Visual introduction to PyTorch
• (07:45) - Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
• (08:43) - Four Column ASCII (2017)
• (09:45) - "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
• (11:03) - Outro

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546

What your Bluetooth devices reveal
https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035560

Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn239exlo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042396

Ghidra by NSA
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011548

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
https://jmail.world/jemini
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031334

Rise of the Triforce
https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2026/02/16/rise-of-the-triforce/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040524

Visual introduction to PyTorch
https://0byte.io/articles/pytorch_introduction.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002231

Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue
https://github.com/zachlatta/freeflow
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47040375

Four Column ASCII (2017)
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022270

"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
https://jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-a-slot-machine-by-any-other-name/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038318