A default Rust 1.85 release binary for a Cortex-M4 embedded target weighs 187KB. After applying strip and LTO, that drops to 52KB—a 72% reduction with zero functional changes. For embedded systems where flash storage costs $0.12 per KB at scale, that’s $16.20 saved per unit, or $1.62M annually for a 100k unit run. 🔴 Live Ecosystem Stats ⭐ rust-lang/rust — 112,402 stars, 14,826 forks Data pulled live from GitHub and npm. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Ghostty is leaving GitHub (1682 points) ChatGPT serves ads. Here's the full attribution loop (130 points) Before GitHub (264 points) Claude system prompt bug wastes user money and bricks managed agents (81 points) We decreased our LLM costs with Opus (21 points) Key Insights Strip alone cuts Rust 1.85 embedded binaries by 41% on average, LTO adds an additional 31% reduction. Rust 1.85's new thin LTO implementation outperforms 1.84's full LTO by 12% on size-constrained targets.…