alt Hacker News...can you make the 5s pitch be more like 'X times faster than pnpm and more secure' but fill X for me? unless it isn't pnpm at all in which case replace with 'it does X' because I've no idea after reading your post and a quick skim of the announcement itself?
Perf is highly nuanced but we've been doing realistic benchmarking for the ecosystem for almost a year now: https://benchmarks.vlt.sh/
We've got more improvements coming soon but we're a roughly ~10-40% faster registry then npm out-of-the-box. Compared to incumbent enterprise registries we're like ~3x.