top 10 hacker news stories for today

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

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

8 hours ago

249 upvotes – 130 comments

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

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

10 hours ago

166 upvotes – 27 comments

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

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

9 hours ago

116 upvotes – 43 comments

GitHub's Fake Star Economy

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

1 hour ago

96 upvotes – 65 comments

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

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

2 hours ago

92 upvotes – 57 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

3 hours ago

65 upvotes – 35 comments

Anthropic installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

7 hours ago

52 upvotes – 19 comments

Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)

https://stripe.dev/blog/payment-api-design

5 hours ago

48 upvotes – 25 comments

Tracking when Trump chickens out

https://www.thetacotracker.com/

2 hours ago

45 upvotes – 16 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/

3 hours ago

42 upvotes – 21 comments
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