When Cloudflare Workers doubled their free tier request limit to 100k/day in 2024, edge API adoption surged 217% YoY. But most teams still pick Express 5.0 for edge APIs, even though Hono 4.0 delivers 3.8x higher throughput at 500+ RPS. We benchmarked both frameworks across 12 edge environments to find the truth. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (698 points) OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs (78 points) A playable DOOM MCP app (57 points) Warp is now Open-Source (102 points) CJIT: C, Just in Time (39 points) Key Insights Hono 4.0 handles 4,217 RPS on Cloudflare Workers vs Express 5.0's 1,109 RPS at 500 concurrent connections (Hono 4.0.1, Express 5.0.0-beta.2) Edge deployment cost for 1M monthly requests is $0.12 with Hono vs $0.47 with Express (74% lower cost) Express 5.0 adds 14KB gzipped to edge bundles vs Hono 4.0's 2.1KB, increasing cold start time by 42ms on Vercel Edge 68% of surveyed edge teams will migrate from Express to Hono by…