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Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

https://shopify.engineering/back-to-native
144•fnthawar2•53m ago•75 comments

Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft

https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/
112•mmastrac•1h ago•43 comments

Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT

https://www.marketingdive.com/news/amazon-pilots-ad-services-in-chatgpt-what-marketers-need-to-kn...
40•thm•50m ago•19 comments

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/09/07/hitachi-launches-co2-heat-pump-water-heaters-with-solar-fr...
149•thelastgallon•1d ago•114 comments

Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting

201•jacquesm•1h ago•71 comments

Who People Talk to When They're Struggling

https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/who-do-you-talk-to-when-youre-struggling
45•toomuchtodo•2h ago•25 comments

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683
219•soheilpro•5h ago•108 comments

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Sony_PlayStation_digital_game_ownership_lawsuit
141•haunter•2h ago•44 comments

Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ckaz32jwl6t2cno6fmuw2nhn/post/3mv4mt4ikss2d
173•ColinWright•1h ago•79 comments

Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative

https://learningto.co/
20•cdnsteve•53m ago•18 comments

iPhone Duo

https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
1305•thecosmicfrog•20h ago•2270 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2097930608790167907
674•Liwink•8h ago•366 comments

To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree

https://devz.cl/posts/how-to-write/
26•DanielVZ•2d ago•1 comments

Stockfish 19

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2026/stockfish-19/
157•atiedebee•2d ago•104 comments

Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

https://rivendell.dmitrybrant.com/relativity/
495•dmitrybrant•13h ago•208 comments

Who Dung It? (Turdle.fun)

https://turdle.fun/
6•nb_quant•1h ago•4 comments

Shopify acquires Tailwind

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwind-is-joining-shopify
1097•EdwinHoksberg•1d ago•427 comments

Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B

https://investors.bendingspoons.com/newsroom/bending-spoons-agrees-to-acquire-miro
52•andygcook•1h ago•42 comments

Liesegang Rings

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/liesegang-rings
16•surprisetalk•1d ago•3 comments

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

https://tautology.town/2026/06/01/card-networks.html
605•evakhoury•1d ago•364 comments

Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening

https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/smartwatches/thanks-to-siri-recaps-your-apple-watch-is-a...
121•geox•4h ago•83 comments

Discrete Dipole Approximation Code Ddscat 7.2 (2012)

https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3424
4•doener•4d ago•0 comments

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

https://spectrum.ieee.org/are-self-driving-cars-safe
402•bookofjoe•21h ago•710 comments

Larger Pacific Striped Octopus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larger_Pacific_striped_octopus
105•olalonde•1d ago•51 comments

Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it

https://mrdee.in/mandala/
47•cyb0rg0•4d ago•21 comments

Object storage is all you need

https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/object-storage-all-need/
55•jpsaccount•1d ago•32 comments

No Man's Sky Cosmos

https://www.nomanssky.com/cosmos-update/
424•Limb•23h ago•429 comments

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/gpt-6-astra-looped-transformers-and
482•ModelForge•1d ago•157 comments

Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators

https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=12835
44•peter_d_sherman•3d ago•9 comments

AirPods 5

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-act...
494•awad•21h ago•426 comments
Open in hackernews

Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft

https://rustfoundation.org/media/guest-post-rust-is-tier-1-language-at-microsoft/
101•mmastrac•1h ago

Comments

ComputerGuru•46m ago
So when will we get tier 1 debugging support in Visual Studio?
pjmlp•43m ago
You have it already on VSCode, which isn't quite the same, however nowadays it is an open question which one is more relevant for Microsoft's management, especially given that VS isn't cross platform (see Azure), and is stuck with WPF/.NET Framework.
mrec•41m ago
I'd also love to see MS sponsoring Windows support for a modern linker like mold or wild.
flohofwoe•40m ago
Optimistic to assume that modern day programmers even know what a debugger is, or if they do, consider it as anything else than some weird ancient shibboleth only used by the greybeards ;)
rafaelmn•36m ago
Debugger MCP better
a012•28m ago
It’s all /skills now
Levitating•19m ago
To be fair, even before LLMs could spot my bugs in an instant I really only regularly used debuggers in C because it can't display arbitrary types in debug print statements.
pjmlp•45m ago
This is very big news, all major OS vendors that also have a role in C and C++ language tooling, now have diversified their options in systems programming languages for greenfield development.

Additionally we finally get some public news about the MSVC integration rumors regarding Rust.

_joel•42m ago
Site down, maybe they need port it to use Rust...

They use wordpress

echelon•27m ago
A lot of infrastructure is going to be ported to Rust.

It's fantastic for websites and servers, and LLMs are very good at generating it.

The primary downside of Rust is the long compile times, especially with macros (serde, etc.) If that can be fixed, it will be sublime.

tonyedgecombe•16m ago
I like Rust a lot but I'm not sure it would come very high up my list for web applications.
edukite•7m ago
First compile. Every another will be significantly faster since compiler is incremental
seki285•5m ago
What is wrong with wordpress exactly?
DidntUseIt•39m ago
Link doesn’t work.

What’s a Tier 1 language?

gshubert17•31m ago
(Link worked for me ...)

This “Tier-1 language” engineering status for Rust means giving internal teams a paved path from local development to production: secure toolchain builds, productive developer tooling, quality workflows, deep platform integration, and compliance with the SDL requirements Microsoft software must meet.

swiftcoder•13m ago
Specifically, it joins a list of existing Tier 1 languages (C++, C#, and TypeScript), as "one of the best-supported languages for internal development at Microsoft"
meindnoch•26m ago
Tier 1 is the summit of summits - the summum bonum of languages, the highest order to which a language can aspire. Very few ever attain it. Non multa, sed multum: not many, but only those of extraordinary quality. Most languages remain forever in Tier 3, never passing beyond its gates. Of these, scarcely 1% ascend to Tier 2. And from that already distinguished company, a mere 0.1% possess the refinement, depth, and excellence required to cross the final threshold into Tier 1.

Consider what that means: Tier 1 represents roughly the top 0.001% of languages. Pauci sed electi - few, but chosen. The crème de la crème. The aristocracy of languages. Primus inter pares, yet standing at the very edge of what programming language greatness can be.

Ad astra per aspera. Through hardship, to the stars. Tier 1 is not merely another rank: it is the ultima Thule, the farthest frontier, the crown, the apotheosis.

flohofwoe
calvbak•31m ago
This is great! Hope this trend will continue in the future; using a memory-safe language should be a top priority imo in context of the coming rogue AI swarms.
swiftcoder•30m ago
I guess the big question is whether they are going to open up rustc_codegen_utc for use outside of Microsoft?
the__alchemist•28m ago
With certain rough edges like complex traits and Async aside, rust is an S-tier lang in several domains. Of interest:

  - Embedded
  - PC desktop applications
  - Computationally-intense scientific programming. (Chem, structural bio etc)
  - OSes, drivers etc
  - High-performance tasks in general. CPU, GPU, etc.
It's not a memory-safety one-trick pony; it's a well-rounded lang which has learned from its predecessors.
varjag•20m ago
Calculate ackermann(4,4), make no mistakes.
bigfishrunning•20m ago
Honestly, the only domains that I think rust isn't suitable for are:

* rapid-prototyping, where javascript and python are still top-tier

* adding scriptability to existing programs, where lua and scheme (and python) are popular

* Server-side API implementation (rust is usable here, but I think Go fits the slot better)

edukite•8m ago
My employer company go through JavaScript, Java, Golang and at the end landed on Rust for srver side and don't want to change anything. Everything is Rust now, regardless of traffic.

I don't know why you think it's only usable but this is your right.

mgaunard•16m ago
All those applications area sensitive to asynchronous programming.
okanat
meerita•27m ago
Good news they adopted Rust as Tier-1 language. I hope their Weather app stop consuming more than 1GB RAM https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-...
geodel•16m ago
But Tier-1 app consuming Tier-1 RAM seems officially approved.
js8•25m ago
Is Microsoft still trying to embrace, extend, extinguish Netscape after all those years? :-)
boredatoms•23m ago
I guess we should watch for contributions to Servo
layer8•10m ago
You’ll know when they publish Visual R++ or Rust.NET.
paulluuk•8m ago
Don't forget about R#
mtgh2s•19m ago
You gotta have balls or be receiving tons of money to publicly celebrate the sloppiest software company of the decade making your programming language Tier 1 internally.
pornel•17m ago
The big news here is they've replaced LLVM with MSVC's backend.
mgaunard•17m ago
does it mean there is a rust.net?
dralley•14m ago
There is a rustc_codegen_clr which transpiles to .NET

https://github.com/fractalfir/rustc_codegen_clr

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20m ago
It means it's about as good as C++ ;)
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7m ago
Rust's async can be very lightweight depending on the runtime implementation. tokio and embassy are both runtimes but former is a throughput-optimized heavily multi-threaded while latter is a simple cooperative multitasking for embedded. We use both at my day job. Even 64k flash and 16k ram is enough for embassy.
jdcasale•6m ago
Yeah I'd written some rust ~ 10 years ago when the language was very different and that led me to believe that it was a 'great within it's niche' sort of thing for a long time, but after spending the last couple of years with it as a daily driver I think it's a pretty great general-purpose language.

The one really common gotcha with rust is that when trying to write concurrent code, newbies tend to throw Arc<RwLock<T>> goo around everywhere, and they end up with the world's shittiest garbage collector.