Hacker News Highlights

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 11, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190

Local AI needs to be the norm
https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821

I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201

Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082

I'm going back to writing code by hand
https://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
https://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089091

Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
https://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576

Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091737

The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/the-greatest-shot-in-television.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090521

Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 10, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc
https://twitter.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073680

EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs-closing-in-age-verification-push/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072190

Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
https://twitter.com/trq212/status/2052809885763747935
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071940

I’ve banned query strings
https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076173

LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073246

The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
https://matduggan.com/the-intolerable-hypocrisy-of-cyberlibertarianism/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074952

Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels
https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/apple-is-increasing-my-cortisol-levels
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075366

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587

Zed Editor Theme-Builder
https://zed.dev/theme-builder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076651

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 9, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067119

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3pww9g0p5o
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061884

An Introduction to Meshtastic
https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061566

Mojo 1.0 Beta
https://mojolang.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057901

Cartoon Network Flash Games
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/flash-game-exhibitions/cartoon-network-flash-games
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48065360

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures
https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066524

A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48071262

OpenAI’s WebRTC problem
https://moq.dev/blog/webrtc-is-the-problem/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051951

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos
https://www.war.gov/UFO/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061938

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)
https://www.wiisfi.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037760

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 8, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054423

AI slop is killing online communities
https://rmoff.net/2026/05/06/ai-slop-is-killing-online-communities/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053203

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
https://www.theverge.com/tech/926458/canvas-shinyhunters-breach
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055913

The map that keeps Burning Man honest
https://www.not-ship.com/burning-man-moop/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049653

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053623

Programming Still Sucks
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040269

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
https://xeiaso.net/blog/2026/abstain-from-install/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227

Agents need control flow, not more prompts
https://bsuh.bearblog.dev/agents-need-control-flow/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051562

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal
https://github.com/antirez/ds4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050751

I want to live like Costco people
https://tastecooking.com/i-want-to-live-like-costco-people/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050499

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 7, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/05/valve-releases-steam-controller-cad-files-under-creative-commons-license
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037555

Appearing productive in the workplace
https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/6/vibe-coding-and-agentic-engineering/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037128

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042434

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth
https://blog.val.town/better-auth
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038827

Show HN: Hallucinopedia
http://halupedia.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038257

A Theory of Deep Learning
https://elonlit.com/scrivings/a-theory-of-deep-learning/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027455

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
https://tilde.run/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037724

Permacomputing Principles
https://permacomputing.net/principles/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044638

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 6, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved
https://status.denic.de/pages/incident/592577eab611ce1e0d00046f/69fa60ef9d12f5057a974f38
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027897

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/multi-token-prediction-gemma-4/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024540

Three Inverse Laws of AI
https://susam.net/inverse-laws-of-robotics.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023861

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
https://reflex.dev/blog/computer-use-is-45x-more-expensive-than-structured-apis/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024859

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/2051616759145185723
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021368

StarFighter 16-Inch
https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031261

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
https://blog.cloudflare.com/agents-stripe-projects/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031684

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JhK8iCQuqI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024129

Write some software, give it away for free
https://nonogra.ph/write-some-software-give-it-away-for-free-05-05-2026
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028842

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031769

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 5, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Talking to strangers at the gym
https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007438

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016880

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
https://openai.com/index/delivering-low-latency-voice-ai-at-scale/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013919

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
https://www.nber.org/papers/w35117
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009983

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219

Redis array: short story of a long development process
https://antirez.com/news/164
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009172

Train Your Own LLM from Scratch
https://github.com/angelos-p/llm-from-scratch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017948

Agent Skills
https://addyosmani.com/blog/agent-skills/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015397

Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
https://www.strix.ai/blog/how-strix-found-zero-auth-vulnerability-dod-backed-startup
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012162

1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'
https://electrek.co/2026/05/02/tesla-1966-mustang-ev-conversion-full-self-driving/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009840

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 4, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
https://www.drive.com.au/news/mercedes-benz-commits-to-bringing-back-phycial-buttons/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997418

DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
https://github.com/aattaran/deepclaude
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002136

New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/attributed-to-banksy-a-new-statue-of-a-suited-man-blinded-by-a-flag-and-walking-off-a-ledge-appeared-in-central-london-180988662/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000152

OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/30/ai-outperforms-doctors-in-harvard-trial-of-emergency-triage-diagnoses
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991981

BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth
https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/116499715071759135
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999636

Let's Buy Spirit Air
https://letsbuyspiritair.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002777

A desktop made for one
https://isene.org/2026/05/Audience-of-One.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997947

Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
https://samcollins.blog/underdrawings/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977990

Southwest Headquarters Tour
https://katherinemichel.github.io/blog/travel/southwest-headquarters-tour-2026.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998946

The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions
https://jdgr.net/the-hidden-costs-of-great-abstractions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002607

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 3, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/310226
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989883

Dav2d
https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav2d
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988504

Do_not_track
https://donottrack.sh/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988592

This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-04-30/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990318

Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2026/04/29/maps-on-watchos/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990606

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
https://thinkpol.ca/2026/04/30/an-open-weights-chinese-model-just-beat-claude-gpt-5-5-and-gemini-in-a-programming-challenge/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993235

How fast is a macOS VM, and how small could it be?
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984852

A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991802

Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/07/neanderthals-ran-fat-factories-125000-years-ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990284

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 2, 2026.

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• (00:00) - Intro

Ti-84 Evo
https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979583

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977748

Ask.com has closed
https://www.ask.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983226

Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
https://www.noctua.at/en/expertise/blog/how-can-it-take-so-long-to-release-black-fan-versions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983352

Artemis II Photo Timeline
https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954394

Apocalypse Early Warning System
https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976566

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975676

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming
https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978834

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment
https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955789

A report on burnout in open source software communities (2025) [pdf]
https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981669