Hacker News on Monday, 20 April 2026

John Ternus to become Apple CEO(apple.com)

2115 points by schappim 6 months ago | 1208 comments

Apple press release announcing Tim Cook will become Executive Chairman and John Ternus will become Apple CEO.

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027(theolivepress.es)

1335 points by ramonga 6 months ago | 1114 comments

Olive Press news article reporting that the EU will require phones sold from 2027 to have user-replaceable batteries and use USB-C chargers.

GitHub's fake star economy(awesomeagents.ai)

729 points by Liriel 6 months ago | 354 comments

An Awesome Agents investigation into the market for fake GitHub stars, how VCs treat star counts as traction, and an analysis of 20 repos showing signs of manipulation.

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving(qwen.ai)

684 points by mfiguiere 6 months ago | 361 comments

Qwen team blog post announcing Qwen3.6-Max-Preview, a preview of their latest flagship large language model.

Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen(asteriskmag.com)

629 points by nkurz 6 months ago | 408 comments

An Asterisk Magazine essay by Dynomight comparing acetaminophen and ibuprofen, covering overdose risks, narrow therapeutic windows, and what doctors want patients to know.

Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding(kimi.com)

613 points by meetpateltech 6 months ago | 322 comments

Kimi blog post announcing Kimi K2.6, an open-source large language model focused on improved coding capabilities.

Making RAM at Home [video](youtube.com)

571 points by kaipereira 6 months ago | 162 comments

YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor, about 18 minutes long, documenting an attempt to fabricate RAM memory chips at home.

Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI(letsdatascience.com)

554 points by kevcampb 6 months ago | 124 comments

News article reporting that Atlassian has enabled default collection of customer data to train its AI models; the capture shows only a Vercel browser verification page.

Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans(github.blog)

499 points by zorrn 6 months ago | 204 comments

GitHub blog company-news post announcing changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans, framed as ensuring a reliable, predictable experience for existing customers.

At long last, InfoWars is ours(theonion.com)

475 points by HotGarbage 6 months ago | 205 comments

The Onion publishes a satirical op-ed by its fictional CEO celebrating its acquisition of InfoWars.

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL(opensource.posit.co)

438 points by thomasp85 6 months ago | 81 comments

Posit Open Source blog post announcing the alpha release of ggsql, a grammar-of-graphics visualization language built on SQL.

NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist(axios.com)

406 points by Palmik 6 months ago | 292 comments

Reuters news article relaying an Axios report that the NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos AI model despite a government blacklist.

Sauna effect on heart rate(tryterra.co)

400 points by kyriakosel 6 months ago | 210 comments

Terra API research blog article titled "Saunas Lower Your Heart Rate More Than Exercise," examining sauna use effects on heart rate.

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated(techcrunch.com)

333 points by FiddlerClamp 6 months ago | 328 comments

TechCrunch article reporting Deezer's statement that 44% of songs uploaded daily to its streaming platform are AI-generated.

AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing(stephvee.ca)

310 points by speckx 6 months ago | 306 comments

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers(kimi.com)

296 points by Alifatisk 6 months ago | 28 comments

MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany(mnt.stanleylieber.com)

279 points by speckx 6 months ago | 105 comments

OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS(flyingpenguin.com)

278 points by feigewalnuss 6 months ago | 307 comments

M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan(earthquake.usgs.gov)

278 points by Someone 6 months ago | 129 comments

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it(politico.eu)

276 points by axbyte 6 months ago | 174 comments

We accepted surveillance as default(vivianvoss.net)

271 points by speckx 6 months ago | 113 comments

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys(words.filippo.io)

266 points by hasheddan 6 months ago | 91 comments

OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”(adweek.com)

257 points by jlark77777 6 months ago | 127 comments

F-35 is built for the wrong war(warontherocks.com)

244 points by anjel 6 months ago | 492 comments

WebUSB Extension for Firefox(github.com)

244 points by tuananh 6 months ago | 218 comments

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit(isaaccorbrey.com)

243 points by icorbrey 6 months ago | 128 comments

Not buying another Kindle(androidauthority.com)

239 points by mikhael 6 months ago | 201 comments

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

229 points by doener 6 months ago | 88 comments

How to make a fast dynamic language interpreter(zef-lang.dev)

225 points by pizlonator 6 months ago | 44 comments

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency(bbc.com)

187 points by blondie9x 6 months ago | 79 comments

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours(theonion.info)

164 points by xnx 6 months ago | 2 comments

Isopods of the world(isopod.site)

156 points by debesyla 6 months ago | 59 comments

What killed the Florida orange?(slate.com)

151 points by danso 6 months ago | 144 comments

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

146 points by GreenGames 6 months ago | 41 comments

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

143 points by sanity 6 months ago | 74 comments

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64(github.com)

138 points by adunk 6 months ago | 37 comments

How does Shazam work?(perthirtysix.com)

137 points by datadrivenangel 6 months ago | 30 comments

Monero Community Crowdfunding System(ccs.getmonero.org)

133 points by OsrsNeedsf2P 6 months ago | 88 comments

Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft(reason.com)

132 points by tcp_handshaker 6 months ago | 110 comments

Highlights from Git 2.54(github.blog)

127 points by ingve 6 months ago | 71 comments

IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first(electrek.co)

121 points by Klaster_1 6 months ago | 80 comments

Desmond Morris has died(bbc.com)

116 points by martey 6 months ago | 20 comments

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

115 points by alegd 6 months ago | 116 comments

Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want(morgin.ai)

114 points by llmmadness 6 months ago | 85 comments

I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs(surfacedby.com)

112 points by startages 6 months ago | 19 comments

All your agents are going async(zknill.io)

109 points by zknill 6 months ago | 68 comments

Books are not too expensive(millersbookreview.com)

102 points by herbertl 6 months ago | 141 comments

Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator(neugierig.org)

97 points by zdw 6 months ago | 13 comments

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

83 points by alongub 6 months ago | 29 comments

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

83 points by tibbar 6 months ago | 44 comments

NASA Artemis Posters(nasa.gov)

81 points by bookofjoe 6 months ago | 9 comments

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design(martinalderson.com)

80 points by martinald 6 months ago | 70 comments

The Theory of Interstellar Trade [pdf] (1978)(princeton.edu)

74 points by AFF87 6 months ago | 24 comments

The Palantir's Stasi Protocols(professorsigmund.com)

72 points by Prof_Sigmund 6 months ago | 19 comments

How Long Poop Stays in Your Body May Impact Your Health, Study Finds(sciencealert.com)

69 points by mikhael 6 months ago | 38 comments

U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers(cnbc.com)

68 points by clumsysmurf 6 months ago | 49 comments

Verus is a tool for verifying the correctness of code written in Rust(verus-lang.github.io)

60 points by fanf2 6 months ago | 11 comments

Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)(boardgamegeek.com)

57 points by maayank 6 months ago | 56 comments

A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)(github.com)

51 points by debugga 6 months ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Ctx – a /resume that works across Claude Code and Codex(github.com)

50 points by dchu17 6 months ago | 20 comments