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4 articles First covered Apr 17, 2026, latest May 29, 2026

A developer's Emacs session in a Linux terminal, editing C source alongside a shell

Hacker News is obsessed with durable Postgres workflows and a game about clicking yes

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.

GitHub Open Graph card for oven-sh/bun pull request #30412, the Rust rewrite merge.

Open Source·4 weeks ago

Bun's million-line Rust rewrite is now mainline. 99.8% of tests pass and 13,000 unsafe blocks remain.

Jarred Sumner merged the Bun-in-Rust PR on May 14, ending Zig as Bun's runtime language. Binary shrinks 3-8 MB; one analysis counted 13,000 unsafe blocks.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon desktop with GNOME 50

Open Source·2 months ago

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ships Wayland-only, Rust coreutils, and post-quantum SSH by default

Canonical released Ubuntu 26.04 'Resolute Raccoon' on April 23. It's the first LTS without X11, ships kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50, and sets post-quantum SSH on by default.

Open Source·2 months ago

Rust 1.95 lands with if-let guards and a macro that kills cfg-if

Rust 1.95.0 stabilized cfg_select!, if-let guards in match arms, and a pile of new Vec and atomic APIs. Here's what's actually worth upgrading for.