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Oliver Medhurst

Personal blog · goose.icuprogramming

Oliver Medhurst's personal blog at goose.icu covers programming. Since 2023, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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7HN people?
2023–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2025

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Oliver Medhurst's project site and his post comparing lines of code across JavaScript engines, tied to the Porffor and MicroQuickJS engine projects.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-15

What Hacker News says?

  1. aapoalas · 2025-12-26
    This is Oliver Medhurst' project: https://goose.icu/ It has stable funding and a full-time development team of 1.

    Comment linking /

    on “Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS”
  2. styfle · 2025-08-16

    Submitted Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda as a story · 200 points

    HN discussion
  3. tombh · 2025-08-17
    Hopefully Oliver, the creator of the project, is here to better answer, but something worth bearing in mind is that a significant part of conventional JS engines are all JIT tricks. And Porffor is AOT, so can lean on WASM and the C compiler for compilation optimisations. The author did a quick comparison of lines of code for some of the popular JS engines: https://goose.icu/js-engine-sizes

    Comment linking /js-engine-sizes

    on “Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda”
  4. akling · 2023-10-27

    Submitted Shadow: New browser engine made almost entirely in JavaScript as a story · 55 points

    HN discussion
  5. canadahonk · 2024-01-26

    Submitted Using TS type annotations for JavaScript engine optimization as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  6. canadahonk · 2024-10-19

    Submitted AOT JavaScript engine Porffor passes over 50% of official JavaScript test suite as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. samwillis · 2025-08-15

    Submitted Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda - Porffor can run on Lambda now as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  8. awesomekling · 2024-07-30

    Submitted A New Chapter for Porffor as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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