top 20 hacker news stories for 2026-04-20

Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/

4 months ago

2176 upvotes – 1329 comments

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets-from-2027/

4 months ago

1446 upvotes – 1262 comments

GitHub's Fake Star Economy

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

4 months ago

806 upvotes – 375 comments

Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-6

4 months ago

710 upvotes – 371 comments

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-max-preview

4 months ago

705 upvotes – 377 comments

The Mystery in the Medicine Cabinet: Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and what to know

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicine-cabinet

4 months ago

701 upvotes – 479 comments

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours

https://theonion.com/at-long-last-infowars-is-ours/

4 months ago

656 upvotes – 300 comments

Making RAM at Home [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GWikWlAQA

4 months ago

626 upvotes – 179 comments

Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI

https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8

4 months ago

604 upvotes – 136 comments

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-github-copilot-individual-plans/

4 months ago

540 upvotes – 229 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/

4 months ago

485 upvotes – 346 comments

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/

4 months ago

450 upvotes – 84 comments

Show HN: Saunas lower nighttime heart rate more than exercise (n=59,000)

https://tryterra.co/research/sauna-effect-on-heart-rate

4 months ago

447 upvotes – 235 comments

AI Resistance Is Growing

https://stephvee.ca/blog/artificial%20intelligence/ai-resistance-is-growing/

4 months ago

388 upvotes – 418 comments

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/deezer-says-44-of-songs-uploaded-to-its-platform-daily-are-ai-generated/

4 months ago

367 upvotes – 389 comments

I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you

https://www.androidauthority.com/amazon-kindle-2026-3657863/

4 months ago

330 upvotes – 275 comments

We Accepted Surveillance as Default

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/why-we-accepted-surveillance

4 months ago

329 upvotes – 149 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

4 months ago

324 upvotes – 204 comments

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-vendor-verifier

4 months ago

310 upvotes – 32 comments

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

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

4 months ago

307 upvotes – 332 comments
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