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This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on Apr 16, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:20) - Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data (01:43) - Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds (03:07) - The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew (03:53) - Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now (05:31) - Cal.com is going closed source (07:04) - IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark (08:15) - Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs (09:36) - ChatGPT for Excel (10:55) - FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account (12:22) - CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome (13:36) - Outro Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my datahttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-datahttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782570Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury findshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-15/live-nation-illegally-monopolized-ticketing-market-jury-findshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783713The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askewhttps://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/menu/burger/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785738Cybersecurity looks like proof of work nowhttps://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769089Cal.com is going closed sourcehttps://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-whyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47780456IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% markhttps://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html?yzh=28197https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777894Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macshttps://darkbloom.devhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788542ChatGPT for Excelhttps://chatgpt.com/apps/spreadsheets/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785397FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail accounthttps://daedal.io/@thomzane/116410863009847575https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788424CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosomehttps://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04-crispr-bold-silencing-syndrome-extra.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781286 What is Hacker News Highlights? Daily overview of the Top 10 Hacker News posts. Post and comment summarization by AI.