In late 2025 benchmarks run on production-grade AWS c7g.4xlarge instances, Rust 1.90 handled 35% more concurrent HTTP requests per second than Go 1.24 when serving the same static and dynamic workloads, with 22% lower tail latency. This gap widens as core counts scale past 64, making Rust the default choice for 2026's high-density server-side systems. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ rust-lang/rust — 112,435 stars, 14,851 forks ⭐ golang/go — 133,689 stars, 18,974 forks Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE (19 points) Where the goblins came from (680 points) Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans (276 points) Zed 1.0 (1879 points) The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy (315 points) Key Insights Rust 1.90 achieves 142,000 concurrent req/s on 64 vCPU instances vs Go 1.24's 105,000 req/s for identical JSON API workloads (35% delta) Go 1.24 reduces cold start time by 41% compared to Rust…