
TypeScript compiled to native: Vercel's scriptc ships a 178KB binary with no JS engine
Vercel Labs open-sourced scriptc, a TypeScript-to-native compiler with no JS engine in the binary. Its README claims 2.4ms startup. Hacker News is not convinced.

Vercel Labs open-sourced scriptc, a TypeScript-to-native compiler with no JS engine in the binary. Its README claims 2.4ms startup. Hacker News is not convinced.

A comment on a Google issue tracker floated binding ADB to the Wi-Fi interface only. That one change would kill loopback debugging, Shizuku, and every debloater built on it.

Jack Dorsey's Block launched Buzz, an open-source workspace that fuses team chat, AI agents, and Git hosting on Nostr, aiming squarely at Slack and GitHub.

HackerRank put its AI hiring agent on GitHub under MIT. One developer ran a single resume through it 100 times and watched the score swing from 66 to 99.

Cloudflare now lets any developer build a real OAuth login against its API, ending a partner-only gate. Here's what that fixes and the catch.

AI SDK 7 ships agent classes, provider-agnostic reasoning control, durable workflows, and a Node 22 + ESM-only baseline. Here's what changed and the migration cost.

June 2026's standout Hacker News projects: Half-Life 2 streamed into a browser tab, a searchable 18-year HN archive, a Pareto-frontier mini-PC tracker, and more.

Anthropic acquired Stainless for a reported $300M and is winding down the hosted SDK generator that OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Cloudflare relied on.

Vercel's Ship 2026 keynote was all agents. The eve framework and enterprise stack stole the stage, but Flags, Claude Design, and signed Blob URLs are what ship today.

Cloudflare acquired VoidZero, Evan You's company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown and Oxc. The tools stay MIT-licensed, and there's a $1M ecosystem fund.

A widely shared breakdown explains why Linear feels instant: a local-first sync engine, optimistic UI, and an in-browser object cache. Here's the architecture, in plain terms.

Godot, Unity and Unreal get the headlines, but six open-source tools quietly do the art, levels, and dialogue work that real games ship on.

Levels.fyi has acquired TechPays, Gergely Orosz's European tech-salary project. Here's what's changing, what isn't, and what it means for engineers.

A disclosed VS Code zero-day lets one click on a malicious github.dev notebook steal a GitHub OAuth token with full read-write access to every private repo.

Microsoft's Coreutils for Windows brings native ls, cp, and grep to Windows, built on the Rust uutils project. Here's what it is and why the Rust rewrite matters.

Six dev-tooling and AI posts that climbed Hacker News in late May 2026: durable execution on plain Postgres, LLM code smells, a permission-fatigue game, Rust 1.96, and more.

Uber exhausted its full-year Claude Code budget by April. Adoption hit 84%, heavy users burn $2,000 a month, and COO Andrew Macdonald can't connect the spend to shipped features.

MySQL bug #11472 was filed in 2005: triggers never fired on foreign key cascade actions, silently breaking audit logs. MySQL 9.7 finally closes it via WL#17024.