If you’ve ever waited 12 minutes for a Terraform apply to finish a 1200-resource AWS stack, you know the pain of IaC apply latency. We ran 48 controlled benchmarks of Terraform 1.10 and Pulumi 3.150 across 1000, 1500, and 2000 resource stacks to find which tool actually ships faster. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ hashicorp/terraform — 48,279 stars, 10,324 forks ⭐ pulumi/pulumi — 21,456 stars, 3,123 forks Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (2204 points) Bugs Rust won't catch (142 points) Before GitHub (378 points) How ChatGPT serves ads (253 points) Show HN: Auto-Architecture: Karpathy's Loop, pointed at a CPU (86 points) Key Insights Terraform 1.10 applies 1000 resource stacks 18% faster than Pulumi 3.150 on initial apply Pulumi 3.150 reduces subsequent apply times by 42% via incremental state diffs vs Terraform’s full state refresh Terraform 1.10’s new parallel graph optimizer cuts large stack apply times by 22% vs Terraform 1.9 Pulumi’s upcoming…