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The RipGrep Musl Segfault That Led to a One-Line Linux Kernel Patch
A ripgrep musl segfault in huge multi-threaded searches traced to a suspected Linux 7.0 kernel race. How it was pinned, plus the one-line fix candidate.
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arrayref 0.3.10 was compromised to pull in a proc-macro1 typosquat whose build script ran a remote binary. What happened and why coding agents walk into it.
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GitHub Case-Folds 480TB of Code at >45 GiB/s: The Branchless Casefold Crate
casefold is the open-source Rust crate GitHub uses to case-fold code for Blackbird at memory bandwidth, and why dropping the early exit let it vectorize.
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Six Weeks After the Bun Rust Rewrite: Is It Done Yet?
The Bun Rust rewrite six weeks on: 2,475 open bot PRs, no release tag and costs that may exceed $165K. The evidence, Jarred Sumner's reply and HN reactions.
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Roc's Rust-to-Zig Rewrite: 487 Days, 300K Lines, and What the Numbers Actually Show
Roc's Rust-to-Zig compiler rewrite took 487 days. What the memory safety numbers, 35ms incremental rebuilds and the HN reaction actually show.
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Zig Creator on the Bun-to-Rust Rewrite: What the Controversy Reveals
Zig creator Andrew Kelley on Anthropic's AI-assisted Bun-to-Rust rewrite: the core arguments, the HN debate, and what it says about AI marketing claims.
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Mitchell Hashimoto on Building Ghostty in Zig: Simplicity, Control, and Terminal Performance
Mitchell Hashimoto on building Ghostty in Zig: why he chose Zig over Rust, how the GPU-first terminal is architected, and what Hacker News made of it.
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Bun Rewrites 535K Lines of Zig to Rust in 11 Days Using Claude
Bun rewrote 535K lines of Zig to Rust in 11 days with Claude. What the port fixed, what it cost, and what HN thinks it means for LLM-assisted code migration.
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pgrust Passes 100% of Postgres Regression Tests: What the Rust Rewrite Actually Means
pgrust, a Rust rewrite of PostgreSQL, passes all 46,000+ regression test queries. What it delivers, what it does not, and the HN debate on AI-assisted rewrites.
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Astro 7.0: Rust Compiler, Vite 8, and Up to 61% Faster Builds
Astro 7.0 rewrites core components in Rust, upgrades to Vite 8 with Rolldown, and delivers significant performance gains for content-heavy sites.
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PgDog Just Got Funded: What the Postgres Sharding Proxy Means for Your Stack
PgDog is a Rust proxy for Postgres pooling, replica load balancing and sharding. How it compares to PgBouncer and Citus, and whether your stack needs it.
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Goose: The Open Source AI Agent With 70+ MCP Extensions
Goose is an open-source Rust AI agent with a desktop app, CLI, and API that works across 15+ LLM providers and 70+ MCP extensions. Here is where it fits.
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DeepSeek-TUI: The Rust Terminal Coding Agent With MCP, Skills, and 1M-Token Context
DeepSeek-TUI is a Rust terminal coding agent for the DeepSeek V4 API, with MCP support, a skills system, 1M-token context and three modes for risk tolerance.
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