Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-16
- Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data www.eff.org - 589 comments 1387 points
- Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds www.bloomberg.com - 149 comments 515 points
- God sleeps in the minerals wchambliss.wordpress.com - 101 comments 514 points
- Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers - 2008 prog21.dadgum.com - 144 comments 481 points
- Backpacks got worse on purpose www.worseonpurpose.com - 370 comments 404 points
- Anna’s Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight torrentfreak.com - 400 comments 399 points
- Good sleep, good learning, good life - 2012 super-memory.com - 198 comments 391 points
- The buns in McDonald’s Japan’s burger photos are all slightly askew www.mcdonalds.co.jp - 197 comments 381 points
- Open Source Isn’t Dead www.strix.ai - 171 comments 324 points
- Cal.com is going closed source cal.com - 207 comments 287 points
- YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes www.theverge.com - 127 comments 276 points
- Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw? news.ycombinator.com - 324 comments 270 points
- The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs aphyr.com - 172 comments 255 points
- Stop Using Ollama sleepingrobots.com - 56 comments 251 points
- Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code claudestatus.com - 218 comments 242 points
- Do you even need a database? www.dbpro.app - 266 comments 236 points
- Why are Flock employees watching our children? substack.com - 44 comments 236 points
- Wacli – WhatsApp CLI github.com - 150 comments 234 points
- Does Gas Town ‘steal’ usage from users’ LLM credits to improve itself? github.com - 112 comments 231 points
- AI-assisted cognition endangers human development? heidenstedt.org - 174 comments 221 points
- Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 deepmind.google - 69 comments 208 points
- Keep Android Open keepandroidopen.org - 65 comments 194 points
- Direct Win32 API, weird-shaped windows, and why they mostly disappeared warped3.substack.com - 109 comments 184 points
- ChatGPT for Excel chatgpt.com - 131 comments 181 points
- Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs darkbloom.dev - 84 comments 179 points
- Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC tracksuccession.com - 63 comments 176 points
- AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you www.reuters.com - 96 comments 148 points
- CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome medicalxpress.com - 74 comments 142 points
- Where did my taxes go? wherethefuckdidmytaxesgo.com - 194 comments 134 points
- The Gemini app is now on Mac blog.google - 65 comments 132 points
April 16, 2026 ∙