Hackernews posts about Fast

Fast is a one-click checkout startup that aimed to simplify online shopping by allowing customers to quickly and easily complete transactions without having to enter payment information multiple times.

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization (github.com)

619 points by syrusakbary 8 days ago | 120 comments
EU Council forces Chat Control via fast-track (www.heise.de)

475 points by stavros 25 days ago | 266 comments
Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper (www.wafer.ai)

358 points by latchkey 27 days ago | 136 comments
An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener (news.mit.edu)

291 points by crescit_eundo 8 days ago | 46 comments
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper (ploy.ai)

258 points by brryant 18 days ago | 131 comments
Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers (www.scientificamerican.com)

232 points by beardyw 17 days ago | 144 comments
Girls just wanna have fast MPMC queues with bounded waiting (nahla.dev)

203 points by EvgeniyZh 24 days ago | 46 comments
My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded (www.zocalopublicsquare.org)

199 points by gmays 15 days ago | 426 comments
Static search trees: 40x faster than binary search (2024) (curiouscoding.nl)

199 points by lalitmaganti 13 days ago | 15 comments
How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster (probelab.io)

183 points by dennis-tra 29 days ago | 61 comments
Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI (nexte.st)

175 points by nateb2022 25 days ago | 52 comments
Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios) (github.com)

164 points by nonadhocproblem 15 days ago | 49 comments
Fast Software, the Best Software (2019) (craigmod.com)

152 points by ustad 26 days ago | 86 comments
Your code is fast if you're lucky (tiki.li)

136 points by chrka 19 days ago | 85 comments
Show HN: XY – A Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated interactive plotting library (github.com)

131 points by apetuskey 2 days ago | 46 comments
Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron) (whimfiles.com)

98 points by whimbyte 23 days ago | 75 comments
How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster (astgrep.com)

92 points by herrington_d 4 days ago | 15 comments
DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector (github.com)

91 points by ingve 9 days ago | 18 comments
Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch (blog.jaysmito.dev)

86 points by ibobev 8 days ago | 39 comments
Faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore (manticoresearch.com)

80 points by snikolaev 28 days ago | 12 comments
The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower (2025) (intrepidkarthi.com)

77 points by intrepidkarthi 29 days ago | 98 comments
Faster binary search: from compiled code to mechanical sympathy (pythonspeed.com)

71 points by enz 19 days ago | 15 comments
EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster (steven-giesel.com)

69 points by rellem 26 days ago | 39 comments
Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model (JFrog and OpenAI Zero-Day Findings) (jfrog.com)

59 points by 882542F3884314B 2 days ago | 37 comments
Show HN: Reame – a CPU inference server that gets faster as it runs (github.com)

59 points by targetbridge 19 days ago | 19 comments
AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough (www.economist.com)

49 points by vinni2 2 days ago | 87 comments
Truth Social to sell banks 'fastest' access to Trump's posts (www.reuters.com)

38 points by almog 14 days ago | 5 comments
Jektex 0.2.0 – A Jekyll plugin for LaTeX rendering is now ~10x faster (github.com)

33 points by yagarea 19 days ago | 3 comments
Popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging (www.sciencedaily.com)

29 points by toomuchtodo 12 days ago | 18 comments
Orasort: 5x faster column-sorting with an expired patent from Oracle (deepsystemstuff.com)

28 points by theanonymousone 24 days ago | 14 comments