top 10 hacker news stories for today

GitHub's Fake Star Economy

https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/

5 hours ago

333 upvotes – 201 comments

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge0grppe3po

11 hours ago

266 upvotes – 134 comments

Tesla Hid Fatal Accidents to Continue Testing Autonomous Driving (French)

https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/2026/article/tesla-dissimule-des-milliers-d-incidents-de-conduite-autonome-mortels-29214161.html

1 hour ago

259 upvotes – 148 comments

Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed

https://github.com/shivampkumar/trellis-mac

13 hours ago

185 upvotes – 32 comments

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

https://www.reuters.com/business/us-security-agency-is-using-anthropics-mythos-despite-blacklist-axios-reports-2026-04-19/

3 hours ago

179 upvotes – 132 comments

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/

12 hours ago

152 upvotes – 62 comments

OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS

https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/

5 hours ago

142 upvotes – 165 comments

IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first

https://electrek.co/2026/04/19/iea-solar-overtakes-all-energy-sources-in-a-major-global-first/

6 hours ago

106 upvotes – 74 comments

M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000sri7/

3 hours ago

101 upvotes – 43 comments

How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds

https://www.sciencealert.com/how-long-poop-stays-in-your-body-may-impact-your-health-study-finds

6 hours ago

90 upvotes – 62 comments
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