DTF:HN for April 20, 2026

Your Daily Tech Feed covering the top 10 stories on Hacker News for April 20, 2026. Featuring: GitHub's Fake Star Economy, OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS, Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery, SDF Public Access Unix System, Vercel April 2026 security incident, and more. Stories covered: 1. GitHub's Fake Star Economy https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigation/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621 2. OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831437 3. Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery https://www.discovermagazine.com/up-to-8-million-bees-are-living-in-an-underground-network-beneath-this-cemetery-48977 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810101 4. SDF Public Access Unix System https://sdf.org/?ssh HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47819410 5. Vercel April 2026 security incident https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vercel-confirms-breach-as-hackers-claim-to-be-selling-stolen-data/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824463 6. Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/20/claude-token-counts/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829178 7. 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/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832222 8. Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020) https://stripe.dev/blog/payment-api-design HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47830575 9. Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people https://ashley.rolfmore.com/stop-trying-to-engineer-your-way-out-of-listening-to-people/ HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827259 10. Ben Lerner's Big Feelings https://www.vulture.com/article/ben-lerner-transcription-interview.html HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789087