Hacker News Rust — Digest May 11, 2026
This week's top Rust stories on Hacker News span a Bun rewrite milestone, a Lisp-on-Rust experiment, Nvidia's CUDA tooling, and new AI tooling built in Rust.
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Posts, notes, and digests — building the things, mostly in Rust
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Bugs Rust Won't Catch: Lessons from the uutils/coreutils CVE Audit
A professional audit of the Rust reimplementation of GNU coreutils uncovered 44 CVEs — none caught by the borrow checker, Clippy, or cargo-audit. Here's what to watch for.
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Hacker News Rust Digest — April 27, 2026
A roundup of the top Rust discussions on Hacker News: a stdlib security audit with 189 findings, async promises vs reality, language complexity concerns, panic-free annotations, and more.
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De-mystifying JSON
How to look at a JSON shape and translate it to Rust structs and enums.
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Organizing Code: Crates, Packages, and Modules
How Rust programs are organized with crates, packages, and modules, including file structure, visibility, paths, and the use keyword.