Best of 2026

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2026. 455 posts.

Software Engineering
187

Pandas 3.0

We're excited to announce the release of pandas 3.0.0. This major long-awaited release brings significant improvements to pandas, but also features some potentially breaking changes.

196

Bun 1.4

Bun 1.4 rewrites Bun in Rust, ships built-in headless browser automation (Bun.WebView), Bun.Image, Bun.markdown, JSON5, JSONL, Terminal and cron APIs, Node.js 26.3.0 compatibility with 1,517 newly passing tests, parallel test and run, Windows ARM64, and an opt-in global virtual store for up to 7× faster installs.

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WASI 0.3

WASI 0.3 is official, and async is now native to WebAssembly Components. The WASI Subgroup voted to ratify WASI 0.3.0, rebasing WASI onto the WebAssembly Component Model’s async primitives. The 0.3.0 specification is now stable, and runt...