For French readers: I have created a HN like for French news with the same interface than hacker news and a similar time/point based algorithm for auto sorting most popular articles.
Running a local benchmark to compare Node.js and Deno gave me the same magnitude of performance difference. I like the concepts behind Deno but the performance should stay a top priority. Even more for a new technology that is looking for future adoption. If Deno gets faster than Node.js, I adopt it. If it stays 5x less performant than Node.js, I skip it.
It's a global step backward for Open Source Software.
Microsoft was always hated because of their closed source software and now they hold the principal Open Source bastion.
Github helped so many Open Source Developers get their projects out of shadow, thanks to the "star" system, news feed... and sometimes this could change a life (like me that created a startup on top of an open source project that became successful on Github).
I feel ashamed now to work on Github, a platform that is, today, owned by Microsoft, a company which I do not support their philosophy and culture.
For me it's a day of mourning and I pry Microsoft to not touch at what makes Github what it is today.
Author of this hack speaking - I've built this interface 3 years ago to track downloads of PM2 (https://github.com/Unitech/pm2), a process manager for Node.js I've authored. I'm really proud to see this dashboard here on HN!
