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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Enter MXC, Part 2: The Fence I Didn't Build
Part two of the MXC field report: before wiring containment into an agent harness, I mapped every place it actually executes something — and discovered my plan had a category error. What a review pass caught, what stayed open, and why understanding had to come before code.
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Enter MXC: What Process Containers Even Are
Part one of a field report on Microsoft's MXC: what process containers actually are (AppContainer identities, declarative policy, learn-versus-enforce), explained from the underserved platform, doubts included.
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Flux Limiter: GCRA Rate Limiting Made Easy
The announcement post I wrote for flux-limiter a year ago and never published, shown essentially as-written — overconfident claims, race-condition code samples, and all. Part 0 of the re-opening the hood series.
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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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Hacker News Rust Digest — May 18, 2026
Bun's AI-assisted Zig-to-Rust rewrite dominates the week, alongside debates on language coherence, release velocity, and pragmatic usage patterns.
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Hacker News Rust Digest — October 5, 2026
A speed-obsessed week: rustc posts another 5% monthly gain, an experimental patch halves build times, a self-optimizing inference engine launches, and Rust powers an open-source Adobe challenger and a retro game engine.
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Hacker News Rust Digest — October 12, 2026
An AI-port week: Quake lands in safe Rust in the browser, the TypeScript compiler gets the same treatment, Eurydice compiles Rust back to readable C, Rust-first programmers start writing C tutorials, and a smart-home library reverse-engineers TP-Link's lock-in.
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Hacker News Rust Digest — October 19, 2026
An eleven-year-old borrow checker soundness bug heads the week, alongside an RL-trained agentic model, a CoScreen revival built in Rust, and fresh tooling for tunnels, parametric CAD, and server-side rendering.
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Hacker News Rust Digest — September 07, 2026
A visual tour of dyn Trait vtables led the week, alongside Rust tooling going native in Vite, Apache Iggy's graduation, a $400 AI-assisted Go-to-Rust rewrite, and an embedded async debate.
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Hacker News Rust Digest — September 1, 2026
TurboKV's hardware-accelerated key-value store leads the week, alongside a Rust-native model gateway, Apache Iggy's graduation to a top-level project, typestate patterns in an ACM paper, and a $400 AI-assisted Go-to-Rust rewrite.
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Hacker News Rust Digest — September 14, 2026
Microsoft elevating Rust to tier-1 led the week, alongside an e-scooter firmware rewrite, the never type's road to stabilization, WebAssembly runtime benchmarks, a Godot-based terminal multiplexer, and Rust extension modules in Python.
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Hacker News Rust Digest — September 21, 2026
Nvidia's native Rust CUDA tracks dominated the week, alongside Ubuntu completing its uutils transition, a Rustacean's tour of Zig, single-file SQLite web apps, formally verified Rust with Verus, and the difficulty of building Rust language tooling.
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Hacker News Rust Digest — September 28, 2026
A thinner Rust week on HN, led by the state of SIMD in Rust, Tokio's ambitious Topcoat web framework, AI agents that optimize Rust by measuring it, and a Rust take on 'Parse, don't validate.'
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Hello, Socket: Rust Networking with the Standard Library
Build your first TCP server in Rust using only the standard library — form a socket address, bind a listener, and accept incoming connections.