Hacker Newsroom for 21 April: Apple CEO Handoff, EU Battery Rules, Fake GitHub Stars, Kimi Coding Model

Hacker Newsroom for 21 April recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through apple ceo handoff, eu battery rules, fake github stars, kimi coding model. 1. Apple CEO Handoff The next story is Apple’s leadership handoff: Tim Cook will become executive chairman on September 1, 2026, and John Ternus will take over as CEO after a long-planned transition. The article says Cook will stay on through the summer to help with the handoff, while Apple presents Ternus as a hardware-focused successor with 25 years inside the company. Story link Hacker News discussion 2. EU Battery Rules The next story is about the EU moving to require replaceable batteries in phones sold there from 2027, a change aimed at making devices easier to repair and keep in service longer. The article frames it as another step against planned obsolescence, even though it will force phone makers to rethink sealed designs. Story link Hacker News discussion 3. Fake GitHub Stars The next story looks at GitHub’s fake star economy, arguing that stars are being bought or farmed at scale and that those inflated counts still feed into startup discovery and funding. The article says there is a real marketplace for stars, cites research and its own sampling to show suspicious stargazer patterns, and claims the incentive loop has turned star counts into a weak proxy for actual use. Story link Hacker News discussion 4. Kimi Coding Model Kimi K2. 6 is Moonshot’s new open-source coding model, and the post pitches it as a big step forward for long-horizon programming, tool use, and agent-swarm workflows. Story link Hacker News discussion 5. Qwen Preview The next story is Qwen3. 6-Max-Preview, a new hosted Qwen post that pitches the model as sharper on coding and agentic work while still being a preview release. Story link Hacker News discussion 6. Onion InfoWars Deal The next story is The Onion’s “At long last, InfoWars is ours,” which frames the takeover as a joke about turning a notorious misinformation brand into an even bigger machine for ads, scams, and absurdity. The article presents the new plan as a kind of satirical empire-building, with panic and capital feeding each other until the site becomes a self-sustaining parody of modern media. Story link Hacker News discussion 7. Atlassian AI Training The next story is about Atlassian enabling default data collection for AI training across Jira, Confluence, and related apps, with customer content included unless admins later opt out. The post says the company is rolling out the settings through May 19, then giving another reminder before the August 17 enforcement date, and commenters say the scope goes well beyond metadata into issue text, page bodies, prompts, and other in-app content. Story link Hacker News discussion That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.