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Warp
Company blog · warp.dev/blog · on HN as zachlloydprogrammingai
Warp is the company blog at warp.dev, writing about programming and ai. Since 2021, 134 different Hacker News readers have linked it 181 times, most often “Finally, a Terminal for the 21st Century”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Warp's engineering blog for technical posts on building a Rust terminal and UI, how Warp works, shell PS1 handling, and an AI-versus-git command experiment.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Build your software factory on Warp: factories as code, any model or harness, with evals, benchmarks, and self-improvement built in.
Most-linked posts?
- Finally, a Terminal for the 21st Century36 people · 39 mentions · first linked 2022-01-25
- Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list)19 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2021-07-14
- How Warp Works7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-04-05
- Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2023-02-15
- /5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-11-29
- /privacy4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-07-14
- How Is AI Affecting the Future of Productivity Interfaces?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-04-27
- Warp: Oz: the orchestration platform for cloud agents3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
- Warp terminal – no more login required3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-23
- Telemetry is now optional in Warp (the Rust-based terminal)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-12-08
What Hacker News says?
I have been waiting to try this out for sometime now. I recently tried various terminal emulator tools and I settled on wave terminal. This is a list of these tools for reference. I would list tools that are on both MacOS and Linux which is comparable to this new emulator. But also because I did not try any on windows. - Alacritty ( https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty ) - waveterminal ( https://github.com/wavetermdev…
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on “Ghostty 1.0”Submitted Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal as a story · 946 points
HN discussionTrue, but the patterns allowed on the web (or in GUIs for that matter) are incredibly painful in Rust. There was a nice article about the GUI part: https://www.warp.dev/blog/why-is-building-a-ui-in-rust-so-ha... These points are even more painful with web standards.
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on “Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder”Submitted The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures as a story · 634 points
HN discussionThey have a "layman's terms" section where it states that for now, in beta, telemetry is going to be on regardless https://www.warp.dev/privacy They promise that after beta you won't need Github, and telemetry will be optional. Though imo this is just as easy to read and understand: https://assets-global.website-files.com/60352b1db5736ada4741...
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Warp: Fast, Rust-based terminal (waiting list) as a story · 291 points
HN discussionHey - that's a good point. The thing about terminal benchmarks is that there are many of them, each focusing on a different aspect and producing different results. There's one by alacritty team[1] that we used in our initial tests[2], there's another ones mentioned in the comments above etc. When using vtbench, Warp performed much better than iterm, for example. Ideally we'd ace all of them, but we're not there yet.…
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Why is the terminal input so weird? as a story · 110 points
HN discussionWarp engineer here! The shell has arbitrary access to the environment, and there's a long tail of shell config to play nice with. For example, here's a fun technical read about how we supported PS1 and how the 9c byte caused some issues ( https://www.warp.dev/blog/whats-so-special-about-ps1 ). We've prioritized issues based on the impact for the product. If you're up for it, I'd love if you could file some issues ab…
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Warp terminal – no more login required as a story · 73 points
HN discussionWe tried to be really upfront in the privacy policy: https://www.warp.dev/privacy Opt-in refers to anything that sends any contents of a terminal session to our servers (as opposed to telemetry which is metadata and never contains any terminal input or output). But we hear the feedback and appreciate it.
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases as a story · 61 points
HN discussionHi, Warp engineer here! Nothing against electron. We write this in the headline because people who see features like blocks or input editor automatically think "slow". So it's a succinct way to communicate that we have a snappy app. For benchmarks, we have some preliminary info in this tech blog https://www.warp.dev/blog/how-warp-works .
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Warp Code: the fastest way from prompt to production as a story · 52 points
HN discussionWe do support SSH, but Docker support is still something we'd like to support, you can read more about how we are able to render blocks here: https://www.warp.dev/blog/how-warp-works . Ultimately, our ideal state would have to have an API for this so that developers can implement this themselves to support blocks in arbitrary REPLs (mySQL, Python, etc).
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Warp Terminal changes pricing model as a story · 39 points
HN discussionGreat callouts, I definitely get your concern around block sharing--that feature does exist currently in Warp but it is completely opt in on a per command basis (we never collect any command output without the user opting into it first). The way this works is that if you explicitly click "Share" by right clicking on a block, we will send the contents to our server and generate a link for you. A block can also be uns…
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Warp, the modern terminal, is now available for Linux as a story · 32 points
HN discussionGood question! We did an initial benchmark of scrolling back in July against Terminal, iTerm, Hyper, Kitty, and Alacritty, if you’re interested: https://www.warp.dev/blog/how-warp-works . We started by forking Alacritty's model and parser and because we have a similar architecture (Rust-based, rendered on the GPU) we should generally be at, or near, the performance of Alacritty.
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on “Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal”Submitted Warp: The 21st century terminal now in public beta as a story · 32 points
HN discussionhttps://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp https://www.warp.dev/blog/how-warp-works Warp terminal – no more login required (49 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42247583 Show HN Warp.dev (3 years ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921231 Show HN llmterm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42498901 https://github.com/timschmidt/llmterm
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on “FFmpeg by Example”Submitted We Built Syntax Highlighting for the Terminal Input Editor as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThere's this cool blog on them testing it out against popular git commands: https://www.warp.dev/blog/replace-git-cheat-sheet-ai-command...
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on “GitHub Copilot is generally available”Submitted Linux version of Warp terminal is here as a story · 13 points
HN discussionProbably not exactly what you're looking for, but Warp (a new terminal client) has "AI Code Search" built in that's powered by GPT-3. Quite useful for someone like me who tends to avoid the terminal when I can. https://www.warp.dev https://docs.warp.dev/features/ai-command-search
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on “GitHub Copilot is generally available”Submitted Warp 2.0: The Agentic Development Environment as a story · 12 points
HN discussionI work at Warp ( https://www.warp.dev/ ) where Zach, the author of the post, is the founder. One practice we’ve gotten into the habit of is demoing projects at standup as soon as possible. I’ve found this has been useful to force myself to get to an end-to-end version of a project sooner. This is useful not just in derisking the technical implementation but also in getting product feedback sooner. By playing around…
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on “Doing too much work on one's own before looping in others”Submitted Telemetry is now optional in Warp (the Rust-based terminal) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionWhat's the business model of this and why I'm not allowed to use it without signing up? The same thing with wrap[0], to have autocomplete, somehow giving special permissions in the OS is not enough to function; I also need to give my identity and communication details. It feels wrong to me. [0] https://www.warp.dev/
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on “Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal”Submitted What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’ as a story · 10 points
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