HN Digest

DAILY HACKER NEWS RANKING

2026-04-15

Final ranking · Hacker News daily top 30 ↗

  1. 01

    Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data (eff.org)

    1711 points · HN #47782570

  2. 02

    Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now (dbreunig.com)

    562 points · HN #47769089

  3. 03

    ChatGPT for Excel (chatgpt.com)

    341 points · HN #47785397

  4. 04

    Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds (bloomberg.com)

    629 points · HN #47783713

  5. 05

    Cal.com is going closed source (cal.com)

    391 points · HN #47780456

  6. 06

    Stop Flock (stopflock.com)

    993 points · HN #47772012

  7. 07

    God sleeps in the minerals (wchambliss.wordpress.com)

    569 points · HN #47778475

  8. 08

    Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008) (dadgum.com)

    509 points · HN #47776796

  9. 09

    Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight (torrentfreak.com)

    444 points · HN #47776035

  10. 10

    Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) (super-memory.com)

    443 points · HN #47776557

  11. 11

    The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew (mcdonalds.co.jp)

    712 points · HN #47785738

  12. 12

    Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16 (iczelia.net)

    264 points · HN #47774789

  13. 13

    Do you even need a database? (dbpro.app)

    310 points · HN #47778086

  14. 14

    Wacli – WhatsApp CLI (github.com/steipete)

    246 points · HN #47775628

  15. 15

    Show HN: Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic (github.com/saffron-health)

    134 points · HN #47780971

  16. 16

    Picasso’s Guernica (Gigapixel) (museoreinasofia.es)

    186 points · HN #47728662

  17. 17

    A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing (llama.gs)

    229 points · HN #47724571

  18. 18

    I made a terminal pager (theleo.zone)

    173 points · HN #47786164

  19. 19

    Costasiella kuroshimae (wikipedia.org)

    153 points · HN #47740840

  20. 20

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

    198 points · HN #47778920

  21. 21

    PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux (tinycorelinux.net)

    140 points · HN #47784244

  22. 22

    Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference (gizmoweek.com)

    303 points · HN #47774971

  23. 23

    Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider (calpaterson.com)

    187 points · HN #47773812

  24. 24

    Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 Writerdeck (jcs.org)

    74 points · HN #47725897

  25. 25

    Forcing an inversion of control on the SaaS stack (100x.bot)

    81 points · HN #47720926

  26. 26

    Fixing a monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity (2023) (aalonso.dev)

    139 points · HN #47738081

  27. 27

    Understanding Clojure's Persistent Vectors, pt. 1 (2013) (hypirion.com)

    114 points · HN #47721076

  28. 28

    Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 (deepmind.google)

    219 points · HN #47779094

  29. 29

    The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs (aphyr.com)

    274 points · HN #47778758

  30. 30

    Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

    342 points · HN #47783940