5.11.26 | Hardware attestation enables monopoly, local AI should be the norm, returning to AWS revealed reasons for leaving

This is a recap of the top 10 posts on Hacker News on May 11, 2026.Feel free to leave feedback on Github: https://github.com/denolfe/hacker-news-highlights(00:00) - Intro (00:14) - Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler (01:47) - Local AI needs to be the norm (02:52) - I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left (04:14) - Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES (05:25) - I'm going back to writing code by hand (07:16) - Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory (08:41) - Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan (09:51) - Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability (11:06) - The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024) (12:35) - Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026) (13:44) - Outro Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enablerhttps://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190Local AI needs to be the normhttps://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085821I returned to AWS and was reminded why I lefthttp://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKEShttps://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082I'm going back to writing code by handhttps://blog.k10s.dev/im-going-back-to-writing-code-by-hand/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090029Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memoryhttps://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089091Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojanhttps://cyber.netsecops.io/articles/obsidian-plugin-abused-in-campaign-to-deploy-phantom-pulse-rat/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48088576Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerabilityhttps://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/11/mythos-finds-a-curl-vulnerability/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091737The 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.htmlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090521Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993