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

Hacker News Highlights · May 11, 2026 · 13m

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

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(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…