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163 titles from 139 authors in the last 30 days, with 149 distinct links and 19 Show HN.

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• Show HN: A Kotlin compiler written in Go, 10x faster than kotlinc · score 8.5

  A Kotlin-to-JVM compiler implemented in Go that achieves 10-16x speedups over kotlinc on real libraries while using a tenth of the memory, passing 95% of kotlinc's box tests and building libraries that pass their own test suites. The project is technically exceptional but remains a prototype lacking full language support, most diagnostics, incremental compilation, Gradle/IDE integration, and non-JVM targets.

• Show HN: go-git2 – 10-100x faster than go-git, libgit2 -> WASM -> Go · score 8.3

  go-git2 is a Go library for read-only git repository access that compiles libgit2 to WebAssembly and translates it to pure Go, yielding 10-100x speedups over go-git while remaining CGO-free and memory-safe. It offers a near drop-in API replacement modeled on go-git and fills a gap for fast, sandboxed git history queries in Go.

• Show HN: Musql, JIT-compiled SQL, up to 300x faster than SQLite, 1000x vs. Turso · score 8.3

  musql is a SQLite-compatible embedded database that uses columnar storage and JIT compilation to achieve dramatic performance improvements (up to 300x faster than SQLite on analytical queries). It also offers Turso/libSQL protocol support, vector search, and replication, making it a compelling alternative for read-heavy workloads.

• Show HN: FlashRaw – RAW image decoder in Rust, up to 15x faster than LibRaw · score 7.5

  FlashRaw is a memory-safe Rust camera RAW decoder with C, C++, Python, and JavaScript/WASM bindings, claiming 8-15x speedups over LibRaw via multithreading, SIMD, and a fused single-pass develop pipeline with GPU support. It covers ~98% of the raw.pixls.us corpus across ~40 formats and ships fuzz targets and truncation policies for safety. The impressive benchmark breadth and production use in browser-based editors make it a credible challenger in the imaging tooling space.

Recent titles

1. There will always be someone faster, cheaper, and better
   2026-11-01 · chrbutler.com · HN discussion
2. How RimWorld 1.7 Lets You Commit War Crimes Faster [video]
   2026-11-01 · youtube.com · HN discussion
3. HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare
   2026-10-31 · theregister.com · HN discussion
4. GAAC: Lossless KV Cache Compression for Faster LLM Inference
   2026-10-31 · arxiv.org · HN discussion
5. mobile-agent: faster mobile app iteration for AI coding agents
   2026-10-31 · mobileagent.dev · HN discussion
6. Show HN: A Kotlin compiler written in Go, 10x faster than kotlinc
   2026-10-31 · github.com · HN discussion
7. Non-autoregressive NC LLM spits tokens 21x faster than text diffusion
   2026-10-31 · hazyresearch.stanford.edu · HN discussion
8. Show HN: Optimized CUDA forced alignment kernels. 10x – 1000x faster
   2026-10-30 · github.com · HN discussion
9. Digital panopticon: 'When you work faster, you have to work even faster'
   2026-10-30 · euobserver.com · HN discussion
10. The Faster Way to Be Done
    2026-10-30 · iamstelios.com · HN discussion
11. OpenRouter rebuilt provider routing for better, faster inference
    2026-10-30 · openrouter.ai · HN discussion
12. Making GROUP BY faster by doing more (CPU) work
    2026-10-30 · pivotlake.io · HN discussion
13. Six popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging
    2026-10-30 · sciencedaily.com · HN discussion
14. I Rebuilt an AI Gateway in Rust. It Became 41× Faster
    2026-10-29 · medium.com · HN discussion
15. Bloomberg, trading firms to pay Trump for faster Truth Social access
    2026-10-29 · reuters.com · HN discussion
16. Powerful Dem trio demands faster AI incident disclosures
    2026-10-28 · politico.com · HN discussion
17. Writing GPU kernels in Rust: how I made speakrs 60× faster than pyannote
    2026-10-28 · avencera.com · HN discussion
18. Faster and simpler web components with Solarite
    2026-10-28 · eric-frost.github.io · HN discussion
19. A faster way to compute signed 64-bit floor division by constants
    2026-10-28 · benjoffe.com · HN discussion
20. Lamdera v1.5.0 is out Elm 0.19.3, faster Wire, safer virtual DOM and++
    2026-10-28 · dashboard.lamdera.app · HN discussion
21. Why are Quantum Computers faster? [video]
    2026-10-27 · youtube.com · HN discussion
22. Show HN: 10x faster, 3x cheaper ETL
    2026-10-27 · espresso.ai · HN discussion
23. Apple launches M6 MacBook Pro and iMac, pitches faster on-device AI
    2026-10-27 · reuters.com · HN discussion
24. Duckdb.net 1.5.6.1: Reading Data Up to 12× Faster
    2026-10-27 · giorgi.dev · HN discussion
25. OpenZL: Using Graphs To Compress Smaller And Faster
    2026-10-27 · ieeexplore.ieee.org · HN discussion
26. Incremental rust builds up to 92x faster than cargo/rustc
    2026-10-27 · github.com · HN discussion
27. Reviewing agent output arriving faster than you can inspect it
    2026-10-26 · HN discussion
28. Show HN: FlashRaw – RAW image decoder in Rust, up to 15x faster than LibRaw
    2026-10-25 · github.com · HN discussion
29. Local inferencing in one JVM JAR, dependency free, faster than llama.cpp
    2026-10-24 · qxotic.ai · HN discussion
30. Bottles creator claims Raven will run windows apps faster than WINE
    2026-10-24 · twitter.com · HN discussion

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