top 50% 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

Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16

https://iczelia.net/posts/e16-20-year-old-bug/

4 months ago

Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?

https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/issues/3649

4 months ago

Peter Steinberger – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send

https://github.com/steipete/wacli

4 months ago

Daily Claude outage is upon us. Waiting for Claude Status to update

https://claudestatus.com/

4 months ago

Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups

https://www.sumida-aquarium.com/special/sokanzu/en/2026/

4 months ago

AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development

https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/ai-assisted-cognition-endangers-human-development/

4 months ago

Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared

https://warped3.substack.com/p/direct-win32-api-weird-shaped-windows

4 months ago

CRISPR takes a bold leap toward silencing Down syndrome's extra chromosome

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-crispr-bold-silencing-syndrome-extra.html

4 months ago

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6

https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-er-1-6/

4 months ago

Keep Android Open

https://keepandroidopen.org/cta/

4 months ago

US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmvjyjekkpr/Rakoff%20-%20order%20-%20AI.pdf

4 months ago

Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC

https://tracksuccession.com/explore

4 months ago

Towards Trust in Emacs

https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2026-04-15-towards-trust-in-emacs.html

4 months ago

Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

https://calpaterson.com/deps.html

4 months ago

The Gemini app is now on Mac

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/gemini-app-now-on-mac-os/

4 months ago

Saying Goodbye to Agile

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260414.html

4 months ago

Modern Common Lisp with FSET

https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html

4 months ago

Mechanical Keyboard Sounds - A listening Museum

https://sheets.works/data-viz/keyboard-sounds

4 months ago

I made a terminal pager

https://theleo.zone/posts/pager/

4 months ago

AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ai-ruling-prompts-warnings-us-lawyers-your-chats-could-be-used-against-you-2026-04-15/

4 months ago

Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log

https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/not-all-elementary/

4 months ago

Introducing: ShaderPad

https://rileyjshaw.com/blog/introducing-shaderpad/

4 months ago

I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months

https://www.wespiser.com/posts/2026-04-12-3D-Printing-Biz.html

4 months ago

Where the Heck Did My Taxes Go?

https://wherethefuckdidmytaxesgo.com/

4 months ago

PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux

http://tinycorelinux.net/5.x/armv6/releases/README

4 months ago

Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language

https://nanopass.org/

4 months ago

Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters

https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/retrofitting_jit_compilers_into_c_interpreters.html

4 months ago

Claude may require identity verification in some cases

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude

4 months ago

Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic

https://github.com/saffron-health/libretto

4 months ago

Kalshi CEO expects US DOJ to prosecute insider trading cases

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/15/2026/kalshi-ceo-tarek-mansour-expects-us-doj-to-prosecute-insider-trading-cases

4 months ago

The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason

https://www.theverge.com/tech/911888/netgear-router-ban-conditional-approval

4 months ago

Amazon to Acquire Globalstar and Expand Amazon Leo Satellite Network

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260414237496/en/Amazon-to-Acquire-Globalstar-and-Expand-Amazon-Leo-Satellite-Network

4 months ago

Scientists discover "cleaner ants" that groom giant ants in Arizona desert

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260414075641.htm

4 months ago

OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/openai-investors-question-852-billion-valuation-strategy-shifts-ft-reports-2026-04-14/

4 months ago

The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded

https://inria.hal.science/hal-05591661

4 months ago

US national level OS-level age verification bill

https://social.coop/@cwebber/116408556882122186

4 months ago

Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39576394

4 months ago

Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013)

https://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/08/28/understanding-the-fft/

4 months ago

Connie Converse was a folk-music genius. Then she vanished

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260413-the-mystery-of-a-missing-folk-music-pioneer

4 months ago

It's cool to care (2025)

https://alexwlchan.net/2025/cool-to-care/

4 months ago

Prove You Are a Robot: CAPTCHAs for Agents

https://browser-use.com/posts/prove-you-are-a-robot

4 months ago

Allbirds announces pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175%

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html

4 months ago

CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous

https://seqpu.com/CPUsArentDead/

4 months ago

Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure

https://ir.allbirds.com/news-releases/news-release-details/allbirds-inc-executes-50m-convertible-financing-facility

4 months ago

My AI-Assisted Workflow

https://www.maiobarbero.dev/articles/ai-assisted-workflow/

4 months ago

Show HN: SmallDocs - A CLI and webapp for private Markdown reading and sharing

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633

4 months ago

Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6lzpxwx50o

4 months ago

Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight

https://www.404media.co/farmer-arrested-for-speaking-too-long-at-datacenter-town-hall-vows-to-fight/

4 months ago

Designing the Transport Typeface

https://www.thamesandhudson.com/blogs/all-news-features/designing-the-transport-typeface-margaret-calvert-on-the-making-of-britain-s-road-signs

4 months ago