Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-16

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