top 50% 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

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

GitHub's Fake Star Economy

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

4 months ago

Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

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

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours

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

4 months ago

Making RAM at Home [video]

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

4 months ago

Atlassian Enables Default Data Collection to Train AI

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

4 months ago

Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans

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

4 months ago

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

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

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

4 months ago

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

AI Resistance Is Growing

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

4 months ago

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

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

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

4 months ago

We Accepted Surveillance as Default

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

4 months ago

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

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers

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

4 months ago

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

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/

4 months ago

MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany

http://mnt.stanleylieber.com/reform/

4 months ago

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

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

4 months ago

OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on "prompt relevance"

https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-leaked-deck-reveals-stackadapts-playbook-for-chatgpt-ads/

4 months ago

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/

4 months ago

F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war

https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-f-35-is-a-masterpiece-built-for-the-wrong-war/

4 months ago

M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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

4 months ago

WebUSB Extension for Firefox

https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb

4 months ago

★ 291 Rust 0BSD

Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit

https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit

4 months ago

Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft

https://reason.com/2026/04/20/this-big-tech-firm-wants-to-reinstate-the-draft/

4 months ago

Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

★ 343 Python MIT

Isopods of the World

https://isopod.site/

4 months ago

Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want

https://morgin.ai/articles/even-uncensored-models-cant-say-what-they-want.html

4 months ago

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Oursdead

https://theonion.info/

4 months ago

How the Heck does Shazam work?

https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-shazam-work

4 months ago

Who Killed the Florida Orange?

https://slate.com/business/2026/04/florida-state-orange-food-houses-real-estate.html

4 months ago

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/

4 months ago

We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090

https://github.com/Luce-Org/lucebox-hub

4 months ago

★ 1k C++ MIT

Monero Community Crowdfunding System

https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/

4 months ago

Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness

https://mediator.ai/

4 months ago

Highlights from Git 2.54

https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-54/

4 months ago

Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for two-sided marketplace?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834213

4 months ago

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64

https://github.com/gizmo64k/soulplayer-c64

4 months ago

★ 106 Python GPL-3.0

Anthropic installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop

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

4 months ago

Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive

https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/no-books-are-not-remotely-too-expensive

4 months ago

I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs

https://surfacedby.com/blog/nginx-logs-ai-traffic-vs-referral-traffic

4 months ago

All your agents are going async

https://zknill.io/posts/all-your-agents-are-going-async/

4 months ago

Zoologist and author Desmond Morris dies aged 98

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c51y797v200o

4 months ago

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

https://martinalderson.com/posts/figmas-woes-compound-with-claude-design/

4 months ago

U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/banks-citizenship-data-collection-customer-accounts.html

4 months ago

Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator

https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2026/04/theseus.html

4 months ago

NASA Artemis Posters

https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/artemis/

4 months ago

Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47835599

4 months ago

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

4 months ago

The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf]

https://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

4 months ago