Hacker News Daily top 30


Hacker News top 30 - 2026-05-11

  1. Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler grapheneos.social - 490 comments 1519 points
  2. Local AI needs to be the norm unix.foo - 482 comments 1123 points
  3. Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer www.tomshardware.com - 291 comments 542 points
  4. Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES nesbitt.io - 135 comments 531 points
  5. Remind HN: Today is Mother’s Day, call your moms news.ycombinator.com - 151 comments 356 points
  6. I’m going back to writing code by hand blog.k10s.dev - 159 comments 345 points
  7. Space Cadet Pinball on Linux brennan.io - 110 comments 333 points
  8. Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory jola.dev - 93 comments 301 points
  9. YC’s Biggest Scandals ycombinator.fyi - 87 comments 250 points
  10. Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI www.tomshardware.com - 143 comments 249 points
  11. GitHub is sinking dbushell.com - 154 comments 230 points
  12. Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan cyber.netsecops.io - 106 comments 209 points
  13. Think Linear Algebra - 2023 allendowney.github.io - 26 comments 203 points
  14. Ask HN: What are you working on? - May 2026 news.ycombinator.com - 672 comments 184 points
  15. Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST - finite state transducer binary til.andrew-quinn.me - 31 comments 175 points
  16. Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down e360.yale.edu - 213 comments 163 points
  17. PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs kotaku.com - 116 comments 163 points
  18. What’s a mathematician to do? - 2010 mathoverflow.net - 79 comments 163 points
  19. Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets janrosenow.substack.com - 147 comments 162 points
  20. The locals don’t know www.quarter–mile.com - 127 comments 162 points
  21. The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene - 2024 www.openculture.com - 68 comments 162 points
  22. An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs www.jamesshore.com - 40 comments 158 points
  23. Traces Of Humanity tracesofhumanity.org - 23 comments 156 points
  24. Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability daniel.haxx.se - 47 comments 119 points
  25. Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes theindex.fyi - 38 comments 115 points
  26. Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage www.theverge.com - 55 comments 108 points
  27. Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did www.bbc.com - 92 comments 83 points
  28. Academic Research Skills for Claude Code github.com - 25 comments 81 points
  29. Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions rarehistoricalphotos.com - 20 comments 78 points
  30. How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings? dunkels.com - 23 comments 75 points