Java developers on AWS Lambda have endured cold start penalties averaging 2.8 seconds for a decade—until the 2026 SnapStart update slashed that to 210 milliseconds for Java 24 workloads, a 92% reduction verified across 12,000 production invocations. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (833 points) OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs (97 points) I Won a Championship That Doesn't Exist (19 points) A playable DOOM MCP app (61 points) BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices higher (19 points) Key Insights Java 24 Lambda cold starts drop from 2800ms to 210ms with SnapStart, a 92% reduction per AWS internal benchmarks AWS Lambda SnapStart 2026.1 requires Java 17+ with explicit --enable-preview for Java 24 features SnapStart reduces per-invocation cold start compute costs by 78% for workloads with <100 invocations/hour By 2027, 70% of Java Lambda workloads will use SnapStart as default, per Gartner 2026 cloud projections Figure 1:…