Programming

Vercel Labs' scriptc Compiles TypeScript to Native Code

scriptc creates native TypeScript programs: static builds omit a JavaScript engine, while --dynamic can embed QuickJS. Here are its requirements and benchmark results.

Rails World 2026: DHH Says Hand-Written Code Is No Longer Economically Viable

At Rails World 2026, DHH said hand-written code is no longer economically viable. What official posts and reporting confirm about 37signals, Rails, and HEY.

Cloudflare Makes Python a First-Class Language for Workers in General Availability

Cloudflare makes Python Workers generally available after 2 years: native FastAPI, Django, Flask, Hyperdrive databases, and PEP 783 support explained.

PlanetScale Launches TIN, a Full-Text Search Engine That Lives Inside Postgres

PlanetScale launches TIN, a Postgres full-text search extension hitting 227 qps at P99 — no Elasticsearch sidecar, with BM25 and full MVCC support.

Android 17 Adds New APIs Without AOSP Release, a First Since Honeycomb

Android 17 QPR1 ships new app APIs without an AOSP release for the first time since Android 3.x in 2011, according to GrapheneOS. What it means for open source.

Nvidia Announces CUDA Rust: Write GPU Kernels Natively in Rust

Nvidia announces CUDA Rust: two experimental toolchains, cuda-oxide and cutile-rs, let developers write GPU kernels natively in Rust compiled to PTX.

Shopify Ditches React Native, Rebuilding Its Apps in Swift and Kotlin

Shopify drops React Native after 6 years, rebuilding apps in Swift and Kotlin with AI agents in 12 weeks and cutting crash rates by 90%.

pnpm 12 Rewrites Itself in Rust and Cuts JavaScript Install Times by 90%

pnpm 12 rewrites the JavaScript package manager in Rust, cutting install times by up to 90% while keeping full compatibility with pnpm 11 lockfiles.

Google Antigravity Terms Allow Account Suspension Over Suspected Third-Party Use

Google Antigravity's terms allow suspending your whole Google account over suspected third-party usage like OpenClaw. Here is what developers risk and how to stay safe.

CPython Adds Official RISC-V Support as the Open ISA Reaches Servers

CPython now officially supports RISC-V, the open CPU instruction set, as SiFive ships a 32-core server and CUDA targets the architecture. Here is what it means.

BadBox Malware Hijacks Android Car Head Units Through Firmware Updates

Kaspersky uncovers the first Android malware infecting car head units via DoFun firmware updates, building a BadBox-linked proxy botnet discovered in June 2026.

Glancer: The Rust Language Server That Sips RAM While DDR5 Prices Explode

Glancer, a Rust LSP using ~100x less RAM, arrives as DDR5 prices jump nearly 500% and a 128 GB kit hits $3,399. Here is why lean tooling now matters.

Tailscale Traces Database Corruption to 16y/o SQLite WAL-Reset Bug

TypeScript 7.0 Ships With Native Go Compiler Delivering 10x Faster Builds

TypeScript 7.0 is now available with a native Go compiler. Discover how it achieves 10x faster builds, why Vue breaks, and how to migrate your codebase.

Kakehashi: Experimental Userspace Brings macOS Binaries to Linux ARM

Kakehashi is an experimental userspace tool that runs macOS binaries on Linux ARM without a full VM. It translates Mach-O system calls to Linux equivalents.

Microsoft Brings Native Windows APIs to JavaScript With Dynamic WinRT Projections for Node.js

Microsoft's dynamic WinRT projection for Node.js lets JavaScript call native Windows APIs without C++ bridges. Here is how it works and what limitations remain.

Vercel's Scriptc Compiles TypeScript to Native Binaries With No JS Engine

Scriptc compiles TypeScript into ~200KB native binaries with no JS engine embedded. Static by default, it falls back to QuickJS-NG only for dynamic language features.

US Citizen Charged After GrapheneOS Duress PIN Wipes Phone at Border Search

US citizen Samuel Tunick faces federal charges after allegedly using a GrapheneOS duress PIN to wipe his Pixel phone during an Atlanta airport border search.

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Threatening Shizuku and Power-User Apps

Google may restrict on-device ADB in Android, threatening Shizuku and power-user apps. Android Developer Verifier is already rolling out alongside 12 new security features.

Moonshot AI Pauses Kimi Subscriptions After K3 Demand Overloads GPU Capacity

Moonshot AI paused Kimi K3 subscriptions after demand surged sixfold to $300M ARR. The Chinese startup targets a $30B Hong Kong IPO with Goldman Sachs advising.

Ant: A New JavaScript Runtime Built From Scratch With Its Own Package Manager

Ant is a new JavaScript runtime with its own engine and package manager. TypeScript 7.0 ships a 10x faster native port. npm v12 blocks install scripts by default.

Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom

SemiAnalysis projects $7T in AI debt by 2029 as Nvidia backstops neoclouds like CoreWeave and Nebius through circular GPU financing. Here is how the model works.

Postgres Rewritten in Rust Now Passes 100% of Official Regression Tests

A Postgres rewrite in Rust now passes 100% of official regression tests, proving functional parity and highlighting a shift toward memory-safe database infrastructure.

Bun Gets a Rust Rewrite: What Changes for the JavaScript Runtime

Bun is being rewritten in Rust to boost performance and stability. Rust now ranks in the top 10 of the Tiobe index, reflecting its dominance in memory-safe systems programming.

OpenWrt One: The First Open-Hardware Router Built for the OpenWrt Era

OpenWrt One is the first open-hardware router built for OpenWrt. Discover how it works, its MediaTek MT7981B CPU, and why OpenWrt 25.12.5 patches critical DHCP flaws.

Hunting a 16-Year-Old SQLite WAL Bug With TLA+ Formal Verification

TLA+ formal verification uncovered a 16-year-old concurrency bug in SQLite's write-ahead logging system. Learn how mathematical proofs succeed where fuzz testing fails.

Linux 6.9 Quietly Broke LUKS Suspend Key Wiping

Since Linux 6.9, a dm-crypt regression stopped LUKS from wiping encryption keys from RAM during suspend. Learn about the risks, affected distributions, and available workarounds for this flaw.

Cloudflare's x402 Monetization Gateway Lets You Charge for Any Protected Resource

Cloudflare's new x402 Monetization Gateway lets customers charge for any resource behind its network using stablecoin payments, starting with USDC support.

gmacFTP: A Native Rust FTP Client That Ditches Electron for Speed on macOS

gmacFTP is a free native Rust-based FTP client for macOS with dual-panel UI, Keychain integration, AES-256-GCM encryption, iCloud sync, and full GPL-3.0 open-source licensing.

Godot Bans AI-Authored Code Contributions From Its Open-Source Engine

Godot Engine will no longer accept AI-authored code, documentation, or agent-driven pull requests, citing quality concerns and a lack of contributor accountability.

Claude Code Executes Hidden Malware From GitHub Repos Without Verification

Mozilla 0DIN researchers reveal how Claude Code executes hidden malware from GitHub repos without verification, granting attackers full control via 1 silent reverse shell.

Apple Neural Engine: Architecture, Programming, and Performance

Apple skips M6 Pro and Max to accelerate M7 Ultra production by 2026, focusing on Neural Engine scaling for demanding AI workloads across Mac and iPhone.

ClickHouse Open-Sources WAL-RUS, a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G That Cuts Memory by 70%

ClickHouse open-sources WAL-RUS, a Rust rewrite of WAL-G that cuts PostgreSQL backup memory usage by 70% while keeping full compatibility with existing archives.

Hacker Trends: Searching 18 Years of Hacker News Comments Like Google Trends

Hacker Trends indexes 18 years of Hacker News comments, letting users search over 100 million messages like Google Trends to track tech industry sentiment shifts.

RubyLLM: One Ruby Gem for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and DeepSeek

RubyLLM unifies OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and DeepSeek behind a single Ruby API. Switch LLM providers without rewriting application code. Includes streaming and tools.

Swift Package Index Joins Apple: What Changes for the Swift Ecosystem

Apple acquires Swift Package Index, the central registry for Swift packages. Here is what changes for developers, security, and the open-source ecosystem in 2026.

Fired by Google for Building the Google Workspace CLI: What Happened

Justin Poehnelt was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. The tool hit #1 on Hacker News with thousands of GitHub stars before Google removed it.

Turso Rewrites SQLite From Scratch in Rust With MVCC and Async I/O

Turso rewrites SQLite entirely in Rust with MVCC, async io_uring I/O, vector search, and MCP server. Currently in beta with full SQL compatibility. Learn how it works.

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CSSQuake Runs id Software's 1996 Shooter Entirely in HTML and CSS

CSSQuake renders the 1996 shooter Quake entirely in HTML and CSS using the PolyCSS 3D engine, reaching 131 points on Hacker News and proving CSS can handle real-time 3D.

Pake: Turn Any Website Into a 5MB Rust Desktop App

Pake uses Rust and Tauri to transform any website into a native desktop app. Discover how it creates lightweight 5MB binaries across macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Java's Project Valhalla Ships in JDK 28 After 12 Years and 197,000 Lines of Code

Project Valhalla ships in JDK 28 after 12 years and 197,000 lines of code. JEP 401 value classes deliver 3x performance gains through memory flattening in Java.

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

DuckDB 1.5.4 delivers blazing fast analytical query speeds via vectorized execution and columnar storage. Explore the internal architecture driving this performance.

How to Run Firecracker MicroVMs on EC2 and Launch Browsers in Under 1 Second

Learn how to deploy Firecracker microVMs on Amazon EC2 to launch isolated headless browsers in under 1 second. Includes networking setup, EBS tuning, and security.

Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb

A hidden library of banned books lives inside a Wi-Fi smart light bulb using ESP32 firmware, storing over 1,000 titles accessible via any phone for about $15 per device.

Kage Shadows Any Website Into a Single Binary for Offline Viewing

Kage is an open-source tool from Show HN that shadows websites into single portable binaries. Learn how it simplifies offline web archiving in 2026.

ReactOS Runs Half-Life With 3D Acceleration on Real Hardware After 28 Years

After 28 years of development, ReactOS now runs Half-Life with full 3D acceleration on real Dell OptiPlex hardware, proving Windows NT kernel and GPU driver compatibility.

How to Run AI Coding Tools at Home Without Draining Your Wallet

AI coding tools are getting cheaper as OpenAI plans drastic price cuts. Learn how to run AI assistants at home without overspending on cloud APIs or hardware in 2026.

Spyware Embeds Nuclear and Biological Weapons Text to Trigger Surveillance Panic

Spyware with nuclear and biological weapons text uses keyword evasion to confuse analysts. Over 100,000 Microsoft licenses were revoked in related security incidents.

Apple WWDC26 Platforms State of the Union: Xcode 27, Core AI, and Agentic Coding

Apple's WWDC26 Platforms State of the Union introduced Xcode 27 with agentic coding, Core AI framework, and SwiftUI upgrades. Here's what developers need to know about the 2026 tooling overhaul.

PgDog Raises Funding to Bring AI-Powered PostgreSQL Pooling to Production

PgDog raises fresh funding for its Rust-based PostgreSQL connection pooler with sharding and load balancing. Learn how it compares to PgBouncer and what comes next.

OpenCV 5.0 Arrives With LLM Integration and a Modernized DNN Engine

OpenCV 5.0 brings LLM integration, a modernized DNN engine, and new hardware acceleration to the computer vision library used by millions of developers worldwide.

macOS Container Machines: Apple's Bold Move to Rethink the Desktop OS

Apple's macOS 27 introduces container machines — lightweight isolated environments that rethink how developers build, test, and deploy software on Mac hardware.

OpenCV 5 Arrives With Graph-Based DNN Engine and 80% ONNX Coverage

OpenCV 5 brings a graph-based DNN engine, over 80% ONNX coverage, hardware acceleration, and LLM/VLM support — the biggest modernization of the computer vision library in years.

Why Linear Feels Instant: A Technical Breakdown of Its Architecture

Linear's UI feels instant thanks to a local-first sync engine, optimistic updates, and custom rendering. Here is a technical analysis of how it achieves sub-50ms response times.

pg_durable: Microsoft Open Sources In-Database Durable Execution for PostgreSQL

Microsoft open-sources pg_durable, a PostgreSQL extension for in-database durable execution. Explore 9 key features, installation steps, and performance benchmarks.

Cloudflare Acquires VoidZero to Expand JavaScript Tooling

Cloudflare acquired VoidZero, maker of Vite with 130M weekly downloads, on June 4, 2026. Here are 5 key details about the deal, the $1M open source fund, and what it means for JavaScript.

Use Nvidia VRAM as Swap Space on Linux for Extra System Memory

Learn how to use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux. This 7-step guide covers setup, performance benchmarks, limitations, and real-world use cases for extra system memory.

SQLite for Durable Workflows — Why a Single File Database Is All You Need

SQLite powers over 1 trillion active deployments worldwide. This database is a storage format recommended by the Library of Congress, and simultaneously a foundation for durable workflows in distributed systems.

Claude Code in Practice: How the Agentic Coding Tool Actually Works

Anthropic has added over a dozen mechanisms to Claude Code that change how developers work with code. CLAUDE.md, skills, subagents, plugins, and MCP form an ecosystem worth understanding.

DeepSeek Reasonix: The Terminal Agent That Slashes AI Coding Costs by 80%

DeepSeek Reasonix achieves 99.82% prefix cache hit rate during full-day coding sessions, cutting API costs from ~$61 to ~$12. A terminal AI agent purpose-built for DeepSeek models.

Zerostack: AI Coding Agent in Rust with a Unix Soul

Zerostack is a coding agent written in pure Rust that builds its architecture on Unix philosophy, combining the language's system-level performance with a modular approach where every function is a small, independent program doing one thing well.

Microsoft Releases MS-DOS Source Code from 1980 – The Oldest Known DOS

Microsoft has open-sourced the earliest known DOS source code, dated April 1980. The package includes MS-DOS 1.25 and CP/M-86 files, providing invaluable material for computing history researchers.

AI for Writing Code: How to Slow Down and Write Better

Using AI to write code faster doesn't mean writing better code. Learn why deliberately slowing down with AI tools produces higher-quality, more maintainable software.

46 Years Later: MS-DOS Code from 1980 Goes Open Source

Microsoft has released the earliest known DOS source code under the MIT license. Assembly code from 1980 is now publicly available after more than four decades.