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Evidence (9)

• 3Hacker News·10/1/2026research
  RacketCon 2026 Takes Place October 3-4 in Oakland

  RacketCon 2026, the sixteenth edition of the Racket community conference, will be held October 3-4 in Oakland, California. The event will include talks on Racket, Rhombus, Typed Racket, and related language-oriented programming work, with in-person attendance, livestreaming, and later YouTube recordings.

• 8Hacker News·10/1/2026framework_update
  Rust compiler performance improves sharply in September 2026

  The Rust compiler saw a mean wall-time reduction of 4.57% over the period from 2026-07-29 to 2026-09-28, with most of the 629 benchmark measurements improving. The gains came from multiple areas, including rustdoc optimizations, Clippy PGO, an LLVM 23 upgrade, and ongoing work on the new borrow checker and new trait solver.

• 6InfoQ·9/11/2026framework_update
  TinyGo 0.42 Adds Recoverable Panics and UEFI Support

  TinyGo 0.42 adds recoverable panics, along with support for Go 1.27 and LLVM 22, improving error handling and compatibility for embedded and Wasm use cases. The release also enables Go programs to run as UEFI applications and highlights the TinyGo Starter Kit with Seeed Studio XIAO for hardware development.

• 5InfoQ·8/27/2026research
  Using Numba and GPUs to speed up Python in financial modeling

  Chad Schuster describes how financial-services teams can combine Python’s development speed with near C-like performance using Numba JIT compilation and GPUs. He highlights actuarial modeling results, including performance gains of up to 750x, along with trade-offs such as type inference issues, object-oriented programming limits, and compilation overhead.

• 6Hacker News·8/23/2026research
  Building a JIT Compiler That Compiles in 5 Microseconds

  The article describes how a Rust-based database project, pgrust, uses AI assistance to build a just-in-time compiler that targets assembly directly and compiles code in about 5 microseconds. It argues that this speed makes it practical to JIT-compile every SQL query, and uses a simple regex engine as the example implementation.

• 8Hacker News·8/18/2026open_source
  Mojo language goes fully open source

  Modular announced that the Mojo programming language is now fully open source under the Apache 2.0 license with LLVM exceptions. The release includes the compiler, tooling, and build instructions, while contributions to the compiler and tooling will remain closed for now and are expected to open later this year.

• 4Hacker News·8/2/2026open_source
  Show HN: Fuse, a statically typed functional language

  Fuse is a new statically typed, purely functional programming language with higher-kinded types, traits, ad-hoc polymorphism, and pattern matching. It compiles through the GRIN whole-program optimizer to LLVM-generated native code, and its creator is seeking feedback on the language design and usability.

• 4Hacker News·7/26/2026product_launch
  Decker brings HyperCard-style multimedia decks to modern platforms

  Decker is an open multimedia platform for creating interactive documents with text, images, sound, scripting, and shareable standalone HTML output. It draws on the simplicity and visual style of HyperCard and classic Mac OS while adding modern editing, scripting, and cross-platform support across desktop systems and the browser.

• 3Hacker News·7/6/2026open_source
  IOCCC crowns bizarre but useful C code

  The 2025 International Obfuscated C Code Contest has announced its winners, including a standout entry that demonstrates a practical use case: preserving software by emulating the Subleq architecture. Other winning entries showcase highly obfuscated C programs, with judges assigning custom categories to each result. The article highlights a 366-byte SDL-based implementation that can render graphics, play Pong, and bootstrap Subleq Linux.