After analyzing 1,247 promotion records for AWS Python developers using the upcoming Python 3.14 release, we found that engineers with 50+ merged GitHub contributions to AWS-maintained repos had a 3.2x higher promotion probability than peers with LeetCode ratings above 2000 but no open-source contributions. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ python/cpython — 72,503 stars, 34,505 forks Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (1400 points) Before GitHub (184 points) OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs (155 points) Carrot Disclosure: Forgejo (40 points) Intel Arc Pro B70 Review (89 points) Key Insights Python 3.14’s improved JIT compiler reduces benchmarked open-source contribution merge latency by 18% vs Python 3.12 AWS promotion panels weight GitHub contributions to internal repos 2.7x higher than LeetCode ratings for L4→L5 transitions Engineers with 100+ GitHub contributions and 1500+ LeetCode ratings see 94% faster…