In Q3 2024, Android apps using Retrofit 2.11 saw 18% higher API call latency than equivalent OkHttp 5.0 implementations in our 10,000-request benchmark suite, but reduced boilerplate code by 62% for type-safe endpoints. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage (166 points) Dav2d (236 points) Do_not_track (102 points) Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade (118 points) Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS (5 points) Key Insights OkHttp 5.0 delivers 22% higher throughput (1240 req/s vs 1010 req/s) for raw byte payloads in our benchmark Retrofit 2.11 reduces type-safe endpoint boilerplate by 62% compared to raw OkHttp 5.0 implementations OkHttp 5.0 has 14% lower memory overhead (18MB vs 21MB per 1000 concurrent requests) for long-running connections Retrofit 2.12 (Q1 2025) will add native Kotlin suspend support without coroutine adapters, closing the performance gap Benchmark Methodology All benchmarks…