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$1,605: average annual ad value of a U.S. Google user

https://proton.me/blog/what-is-your-data-worth-to-google
12•muzzy19•1h ago

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dotcoma•1h ago
There's a problem...

Population of the US: 349 M, of which 250-300 M use Google services, multiplied by 1605 USD per user = from 401 B USD to 481 B USD, but in 2025 Alphabet did 403 B in total, from every service, in the whole world.

hacker_homie•1h ago
revenue vs profit?
devttyeu•21m ago
403 B is the revenues - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426...
itemize123•27m ago
google's the middleman, and it won't capture the whole 1600 right?
amazingamazing•5m ago
Presumably this only counts internet users.
kybb4•25m ago
Add Meta and the rest of the Attention Economy and for a family of 4 they extract 10K a year. The rest of the world its like $700-1K. The US Attention pool gets overfished because thats where most of the world cash sits. Over optimized Cream Skimming.

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup's production database

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/cursoropus_agent_snuffs_out_pocketos/
1•garyclarke27•1m ago•0 comments

A troubling plan to revive the frozen US property market

https://www.ft.com/content/8927eabf-3c0f-4a5a-bf13-ee6b99225742
1•JumpCrisscross•3m ago•0 comments

Its always DNS: Why the default BIND setup is failing to resolve

https://smallhacks.wordpress.com/
1•samm_cz•9m ago•1 comments

Open source package with 1M monthly downloads stole user credentials

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/open-source-package-with-1-million-monthly-downloads-sto...
1•aureliusm•10m ago•0 comments

Trips Together – Get your trips out of the groupchat

https://www.tripstogether.co.uk
1•jackjonbutler•10m ago•0 comments

Reddit seems to be blocking mobile browser access for some users

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/04/28/reddit-blocking-mobile-browser-access/
1•mchinen•12m ago•1 comments

Claude Code Tracker for Garmin

https://github.com/thejens/garmin-claude
1•allusernamesare•13m ago•0 comments

Should schools get rid of homework? Some educators are saying yes

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-5795647/should-schools-get-rid-of-homework
1•geox•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Axiom v2.0 – Parallel Ingestion at 125M rows/SEC

1•Naresh-cn2•15m ago•0 comments

How to Use Transformers.js in a Chrome Extension

https://huggingface.co/blog/transformersjs-chrome-extension
1•mariuz•18m ago•0 comments

'They're supposed to be handmade': zine creators fight to resist AI influence

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/28/zine-creators-fight-to-resist-ai-influence
1•pseudolus•20m ago•0 comments

Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought: History of Computation, Logic, Algebra

https://pron.github.io/posts/computation-logic-algebra-pt1
1•lioeters•21m ago•0 comments

Zulip 12.0: Organized chat for distributed teams

https://blog.zulip.com/2026/04/27/zulip-12-0-released/
1•Cyphase•21m ago•0 comments

Synthetic Pretraining

https://vintagedata.org/blog/posts/synthetic-pretraining
1•Anon84•21m ago•0 comments

GitHub Reports DMCA Takedown Record and Surging Anti-Circumvention Claims

https://torrentfreak.com/github-reports-dmca-takedown-record-and-surging-anti-circumvention-claims/
1•isaacfrond•23m ago•0 comments

Friendster Relaunches Again

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/friendster_rises_from_the_grave/
2•maguszin•26m ago•0 comments

Ford's 2,200-HP electric Mustang runs 6.87-SEC quarter mile, smashes EV record

https://electrek.co/2026/04/26/ford-cobra-jet-2200-electric-drag-racing-record-quarter-mile/
2•breve•26m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why Are Companies Tokenmaxxing?

2•dgellow•26m ago•2 comments

Implementation of the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol, RFC1149, 25 Years Later

https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-implementation-of-carrier-pigeon.html
1•ingve•26m ago•0 comments

AI Video Platform for Content Creators

https://rulevid.com/
1•portlisa•26m ago•0 comments

China blocks Meta's $2B Manus deal after months-long probe

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/27/china-vetoes-metas-2b-manus-deal-after-months-long-probe/
1•saikatsg•27m ago•0 comments

The Social Edge of Intellgience: Individual Gain, Collective Loss

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2•ForHackernews•31m ago•0 comments

Databricks and Lovable: A Practical Case Study and What It Costs to Build an App

https://medium.com/@protmaks/databricks-lovable-a-practical-case-study-and-what-it-costs-to-build...
1•protmaks•32m ago•0 comments

What Happened to Claude Code

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1•e-nouri•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Excalidraw but for 3D Drawing

https://github.com/mr-weed-88/petals-3d
2•aliezsid•35m ago•0 comments

An Update on GitHub Availability

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/
4•salkahfi•35m ago•0 comments

Antiquities dealer who exposed British Museum thefts dies aged 61

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1mk2pr39k7o
2•mellosouls•37m ago•0 comments

White House pushed out new AI official after just four days on the job

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/24/white-house-fires-ai-official-anthropic/
2•croes•38m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Got Anything to Kill Boredom?

1•wasimsk•39m ago•2 comments

Thoughts on Doctoral Student Recruitment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNLwpwGnb0
1•nialse•40m ago•0 comments