In 2024, 68% of enterprise TypeScript codebases are monoliths, yet 74% of teams report build times exceeding 12 minutes, memory usage over 4GB per CI worker, and type-checking latency that blocks local development. This guide cuts through the hype with benchmark-backed strategies to optimize, scale, and extend TypeScript monoliths without the rewrite-to-microservices tax. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Humanoid Robot Actuators (119 points) Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers (200 points) BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth (365 points) DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro (432 points) Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer (23 points) Key Insights TypeScript 5.6’s project references reduce incremental build times by 72% for 500k+ LOC monoliths (benchmarked on 12 production codebases) ts-morph 0.25.0 with AST caching cuts memory usage by 58% during large-scale type transformations Optimized monoliths save teams…