The Disappointing Death of Deno: What Happened and the Perils of Venture Capital-Funded Open Source – Brett Codes

kept by eddie oct 15

After Cloudflare acquired Deno, the company announced the runtime will receive only security updates for a year before development ends, disappointing long‑time users.

Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust
Fresh is a new terminal text editor and IDE built in Rust, featuring intuitive keybindings, TypeScript plugins, large file handling, and LSP support.
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LogTape
LogTape is a zero-dependency, library-first logging library for JavaScript runtimes that stays silent until the application opts in.
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WebSocket servers in JavaScript: Node.js, Bun and Deno in 2026 – Daniel Lemire's blog
Node.js 26 with uWebSockets.js achieves ~49k round‑trips/sec, outpacing Bun and Deno, while the ws package shows similar relative rankings across runtimes.
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The Neolabs Are a Bet Against Superintelligence
Investors betting billions on new AGI startups are wagering against near-term superintelligence, expecting AI progress to plateau despite current trends, with neolabs having far less capital and compute than OpenAI or Anthropic.
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Sarah Guo's Wager - Colossus
Sarah Guo contends that despite AI labs' dominance, opportunities exist for new firms built on open models, prompting her to invest against Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Waymo.
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