top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-05-10

Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585

3 months ago

2186 upvotes – 755 comments

Local AI needs to be the norm

https://unix.foo/posts/local-ai-needs-to-be-norm/

3 months ago

1896 upvotes – 748 comments

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features

https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gaming-is-getting-faster-because-windows-apis-are-becoming-linux-kernel-features/

3 months ago

978 upvotes – 662 comments

Incident CVE-2024-Yikes

https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html

3 months ago

708 upvotes – 179 comments

Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to 'Go (Bleep) yourself'

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-rossmann-tells-3d-printer-maker-bambu-lab-to-go-bleep-yourself-over-its-lawsuit-against-enthusiast-right-to-repair-advocate-offers-to-pay-the-legal-fees-for-a-threatened-orcaslicer-developer

3 months ago

627 upvotes – 334 comments

Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory

https://jola.dev/posts/running-local-models-on-m4

3 months ago

575 upvotes – 174 comments

Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

https://imtomt.github.io/ymawky/

3 months ago

★ 485 Assembly GPL-3.0
429 upvotes – 228 comments

You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs

https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2026/you-need-ai-that-reduces-your-maintenance-costs

3 months ago

379 upvotes – 109 comments

Remind HN: Today is Mother's Day, call your moms

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085384

3 months ago

377 upvotes – 165 comments

Debian must ship reproducible packages

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html

3 months ago

370 upvotes – 169 comments

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/

3 months ago

365 upvotes – 229 comments

Space Cadet Pinball on Linux

https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/

3 months ago

353 upvotes – 131 comments

Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/maryland-citizens-slapped-with-usd2-billion-grid-upgrade-bill-for-out-of-state-ai-data-centers-state-complains-to-federal-energy-regulators-says-additional-cost-breaks-ratepayer-protection-pledge-promises

3 months ago

318 upvotes – 201 comments

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085993

3 months ago

288 upvotes – 1100 comments

YC's Biggest Scandals

https://ycombinator.fyi/

3 months ago

266 upvotes – 94 comments

GitHub Is Sinking

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/

3 months ago

262 upvotes – 167 comments

Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s

https://www.cocoawithlove.com/blog/matrix-multiplications-swift.html

3 months ago

262 upvotes – 13 comments

Task Paralysis and AI

https://g5t.de/articles/20260510-task-paralysis-and-ai/index.html

3 months ago

262 upvotes – 130 comments

Israel's AI targeting system: data from a phone become a death sentence

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-05-04/inside-israels-ai-targeting-system-how-data-from-phone-become-death-sentence

3 months ago

228 upvotes – 113 comments

Leaving the Physical World

https://www.eff.org/pages/leaving-physical-world

3 months ago

228 upvotes – 102 comments

Think Linear Algebra

https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html

3 months ago

225 upvotes – 33 comments

Xs of Y – roguelike that names itself every run. Written in 4kLoC

https://github.com/nooga/xsofy

3 months ago

★ 197 Clojure MIT
211 upvotes – 93 comments

The Locals Don't Know

https://www.quarter--mile.com/The-Locals-Dont-Know

3 months ago

197 upvotes – 176 comments

Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary

https://til.andrew-quinn.me/posts/replacing-a-3-gb-sqlite-database-with-a-7-mb-fst-finite-state-trandsucer-binary/

3 months ago

191 upvotes – 32 comments

PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs

https://kotaku.com/playstation-3-emulator-devs-politely-ask-that-people-stop-flooding-it-with-ai-code-pull-requests-2000694656

3 months ago

187 upvotes – 148 comments

Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how

https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just-became-one-of-europes

3 months ago

183 upvotes – 196 comments

What's a Mathematician to Do?

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do

3 months ago

179 upvotes – 85 comments

Tracesofhumanity.org by Joanna Rutkowska

https://tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/

3 months ago

175 upvotes – 30 comments

Scientists warn Atlantic current at risk of shutting down

https://e360.yale.edu/features/amoc-climate-change

3 months ago

171 upvotes – 232 comments

How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings?

https://dunkels.com/adam/claude-user-space-ip-stack-ping/

3 months ago

165 upvotes – 64 comments

Gemini API File Search is now multimodal

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/expanded-gemini-api-file-search-multimodal-rag/

3 months ago

156 upvotes – 46 comments

Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes

https://theindex.fyi

3 months ago

154 upvotes – 39 comments

Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/28/swift-bricks-to-be-installed-in-all-new-buildings-in-scotland-after-holyrood-backs-ruling

3 months ago

136 upvotes – 94 comments

Rotten Dot Com

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rotten-dot-com/

3 months ago

134 upvotes – 126 comments

Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

https://www.theverge.com/tech/924933/google-chrome-4gb-gemini-nano-ai-features

3 months ago

116 upvotes – 59 comments

Fc, a lossless compressor for floating-point streams

https://github.com/xtellect/fc

3 months ago

★ 70 C
108 upvotes – 33 comments

Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260508-parents-in-ancient-times-felt-less-sleep-deprived-what-our-ancestors-did-differently-on-baby-sleep

3 months ago

104 upvotes – 103 comments

Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount

https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/about-us/newsroom/gen-z-resentment-toward-ai-grows-as-adoption-stagnates-and-workplace-fears-mount

3 months ago

97 upvotes – 162 comments

60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster

https://martypc.blogspot.com/2026/05/60fps-video-on-cga-glyphblaster.html

3 months ago

95 upvotes – 11 comments

Profiling.sampling – Statistical Profiler

https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profiling.sampling.html#module-profiling.sampling

3 months ago

89 upvotes – 23 comments
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