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1,947 mentions on Hacker News by 1,181 people: 291 stories, 1,656 comments · first 2014-12-08 · latest 2026-10-22

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  1. ▲ 7
    Go: Location interprets wrong timezone (DST) with slim zoneinfo
    story by sethammons · 2020-10-28 · 1 comment
  2. ▲ 2
    Proposal: Go 2 error handling with “pass” keyword
    story by bitt · 2020-10-28 · 0 comments
  3. ▲ 1
    NoPlusOne – Golang/Go Wiki
    story by gitgud · 2020-10-15 · 0 comments
  4. ▲ 1
    Make.bash: drop bash as a build dependency · Issue #41698 · Golang/go
    story by todsacerdoti · 2020-10-14 · 0 comments
  5. ▲ 1
    Go might support converting a slice []T to an array pointer *[N]T soon
    story by tapirl · 2020-10-10 · 0 comments
  6. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29621
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2020-10-09 · in Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
  7. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29036 which is still open.
    comment by earthboundkid · 2020-10-03 · in Python typosquatting is about more than typos
  8. Like that dude who had a go project that bowled over by Google Golang E: found it! https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
  9. …Apple's libc. That's right. In fact this was a source of a time-related bug in Go on Mac OS. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17490 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16570
  10. …you can't exploit this if I link you to a traefik configured in this way you refuse to run it. [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/1435
    comment by TheDong · 2020-09-25 · in Traefik, Now With Native Go Plugins
  11. Other comments in this sub-topic: An example - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41467#issuecomment-69804... A fix - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41467#issuecomment-69689... A clarification - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/414…
    comment by networkimprov · 2020-09-25 · in The Go os.File.ReadDir() proposal is broken
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    The Go os.File.ReadDir() proposal is broken
    story by networkimprov · 2020-09-25 · 1 comment
  13. From the README in the repo: "This repo is a fork of the Go repo ( https://github.com/golang/go ). Nearly all of Biscuit's code is in biscuit/." From one of the linked papers: "Biscuit has nearly 28 thousand lines of Go, 1546 lines of…
  14. This looks promising, but has a major gap -- it can produce different results on various filesystems. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41467#issuecomment-69689...
  15. ▲ 2
    Go proposal: os.File.ReadDir() for lightweight directory reading
    story by networkimprov · 2020-09-23 · 1 comment
  16. …is URIs (which can be javascript: or data:), which Golang's html/template correctly escapes: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/html/template/u...
  17. …in particular like Rust has a standard formatter. https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments
    comment by dodobirdlord · 2020-09-21 · in Why Not Rust?
  18. …well-established standards of use Here are some companies that may disagree with the author: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers
  19. …the BEAM: https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/erts/emulator/beam... On the Go side, check out https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/runtime/proc.go and the asm* implementations. It's been a little while since I looked at it,…
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    The Official Go Modules Documentation
    story by clockworksoul · 2020-09-11 · 3 comments
  21. …enough. Somewhere in the comments someone mentioned that "the actual info" on modules is here: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules which is slightly better but for some reason isn't in the official docs, and also basically brushes…
    comment by dmitriid · 2020-09-10 · in Go modules have a v2+ problem
  22. …code" https://golang.org/doc/code.html , have been writing loads of reference material (follow in https://github.com/golang/go/issues/33637 ), have several tutorials on the way, are thinking and talking about a "cheatsheet", are building…
    comment by deklerk · 2020-09-10 · in Go modules have a v2+ problem
  23. …What? I solved it by looking through this issue that comes at the top of Google Search for it: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/35732
    comment by dmitriid · 2020-09-10 · in Go modules have a v2+ problem
  24. Most likely people don't know where the doc is, Go documentation for module is excellent: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules
    comment by Thaxll · 2020-09-10 · in Go modules have a v2+ problem
  25. …or v1.5.0-rc.1. The leading v is required. If using Git, tag released commits with their versions https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#modules (I find this reference exceedingly helpful, and wish it were somewhere more official than…
    comment by llimllib · 2020-09-10 · in Go modules have a v2+ problem
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    Go Generic Examples from Go Team
    story by undefinednull · 2020-09-06 · 0 comments
  27. …be a single letter (i, r). More unusual things and global variables need more descriptive names." https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#variabl...
    comment by Cthulhu_ · 2020-08-31 · in How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2003)
  28. …in the standard library after a server I wrote oddly kept eternally open-connections[1]. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/213
  29. …taking context.Context. The new FS API proposal makes no mention of deadlines or contexts. [2] [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41054 [2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5636#issuecomment-661926...
    comment by networkimprov · 2020-08-30 · in An interesting mistake with Go's context package
  30. ▲ 1
    Generics Examples by the Go Team
    story by atombender · 2020-08-29 · 0 comments
  31. …[1] Go supports timeouts on network & file read/write ops, which can be used to interrupt them. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41054
    comment by networkimprov · 2020-08-29 · in Don't trust default timeouts
  32. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/dev.go2go/src/cmd/go2go/te... A general question. Is there a reason to add those arguments instead of just using them directly inside the goroutine and so passing the arguments implicitly?
  33. …There's a whole page of these "tricks" that are necessary to perform basic operations on slices: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
  34. ▲ 2
    Golang bug: for range loop reading past slice end
    story by vecio · 2020-08-17 · 0 comments
  35. …talking about TLS certs, WAF and other concerns that also may bring nginx etc on board anyhow. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16100
    comment by clon · 2020-08-14 · in What's new in PHP 8?
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    Golang proposal: switch to a register-based calling convention
    story by pjf · 2020-08-12 · 0 comments
  37. …and I am thrilled about it and what it means for keeping the Go X.509 ecosystem modern and secure. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39568#issuecomment-67142... crypto/tls Configs now have a spiffy VerifyConnection callback that runs for…
    comment by FiloSottile · 2020-08-11 · in Go 1.15 Released
  38. …. Official blog post: https://blog.golang.org/go1.15 . Some fixes already planned for Go 1.15.1: https://github.com/golang/go/milestone/162 .
    comment by ainar-g · 2020-08-11 · in Go 1.15 Released
  39. …om/r/golang/comments/hv976o/qa_iofs_draf... It was prompted by this proposal for os.Readdirentries(): https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40352 It seems to me that FileInfo isn't a suitable interface for either a general filesystem…
    comment by networkimprov · 2020-08-06 · in File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design
  40. They are aware: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16399 Seems like they postponed incorporating fastwalk into the standard library because it would break API: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/internal/fastwalk Perhaps until then one…
  41. There is a proposal to replace os.Readdir() here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40352
    comment by networkimprov · 2020-08-05 · in File System Interfaces for Go – Draft Design
  42. …being considered now after ideas matured in the community and people developed ways around it (see https://github.com/golang/go/issues/35950 ). The outcome will probably be something that will be robust and stable and once in the language…
  43. I think the first page of the commit history ( https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?after=f235275097... ) is a little better
    comment by msingle · 2020-08-05 · in First Git commit 19 July 1972
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    First Git commit 19 July 1972
    story by todotask · 2020-08-05 · 1 comment
  45. …tag, but that was abandoned because a lot of code hosting sites would not have been supported yet: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39559 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40477 That is why they decided to turn it into an…
  46. > Anyway it seems that the repo was not added to pkg.dev automatically: > > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38326 The way this works (or rather, worked) is that you first need to "go get" a module and then it gets picked up by the…
  47. …Did somebody look into why? Anyway it seems that the repo was not added to pkg.dev automatically: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38326 and the automatic fetching should work now: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/37002
  48. …have repeatedly stated that its type system being very limited is intentional. See e.g. here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29649#issuecomment-45482... TBH, sometimes I wonder why they bothered with static typing at all...
  49. …in; it doesn't have much cleverness so most code is instantly readable. Take a random file from https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src and any developer will understand it and be able to make changes. They optimized the language for…
  50. …a 3rd party site, and this issue is still open [#16922 doc: document assembly calling convention]( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16922 ) btw the source i linked in my original comment links to a proposal to allow passing args in…