top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-15

Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data

4 months ago

IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html?yzh=28197

4 months ago

The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/menu/burger/

4 months ago

Live Nation Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/live-nation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-market-jury-finds

4 months ago

God Sleeps in the Minerals

https://wchambliss.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/god-sleeps-in-the-minerals/

4 months ago

Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)

https://prog21.dadgum.com/30.html

4 months ago

Anna's Archive Loses $322M Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight

https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-322-million-spotify-piracy-case-without-a-fight/

4 months ago

Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)

https://super-memory.com/articles/sleep.htm

4 months ago

Your Backpack Got Worse on Purpose

https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose

4 months ago

Michael Rabin Has Died

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O._Rabin

4 months ago

Cal.com is going closed source

https://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why

4 months ago

Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson

https://www.strix.ai/blog/cal-com-is-closing-its-code-due-to-ai-threats

4 months ago

Is anyone actually using OpenClaw?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783940

4 months ago

ChatGPT for Excel

https://chatgpt.com/apps/spreadsheets/

4 months ago

YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts

https://www.theverge.com/streaming/912898/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero-minutes

4 months ago

Do You Even Need a Database?

https://www.dbpro.app/blog/do-you-even-need-a-database

4 months ago

Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)

https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents

4 months ago

Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference

https://www.gizmoweek.com/gemma-4-runs-iphone/

4 months ago

The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs

https://aphyr.com/posts/419-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-new-jobs

4 months ago

Flock employees caught watching kids gymnastic class and pools

https://substack.com/home/post/p-193593234

4 months ago