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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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    Go proposal: clarify how proposals are evaluated
    story by sgmansfield · 2016-09-15 · 0 comments
  2. ▲ 2
    Proposal to add ACME (LetsEncrypt, etc) support to Go stdlib
    story by mbertschler · 2016-09-10 · 1 comment
  3. …above... Clicked on web link and google bring to reddit, and here is the working link from there; https://github.com/golang/go/files/447163/GoFunctionsInAssem...
    comment by Hahhaa · 2016-09-10 · in Dropping Down: Go Functions in Assembly Language
  4. ▲ 3
    Go 1.7.1 is out
    story by samber · 2016-09-07 · 0 comments
  5. That's precisely my suggestion https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16791#issuecomment-24209... Moving from runes to bytes in reading gives us a nice speedup - not quite to eliminate the gap, but it's a start. The rest is likely all the…
    comment by drej · 2016-09-03 · in Golang – encoding/csv: Reading is slow
  6. …Apache Commons CSV and found that Java was 1.9x faster than Go, rather than the original 3x: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16791#issuecomment-24456...
    comment by dalke · 2016-09-03 · in Golang – encoding/csv: Reading is slow
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    Golang – encoding/csv: Reading is slow
    story by chinmaymk · 2016-09-03 · 96 comments
  8. Not only Symantec. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16292
    comment by 0xmohit · 2016-09-03 · in Linux.Rex.1 – A multifunctional self-replicating Trojan for Linux written in Go
  9. Indeed. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3606
    comment by mholt · 2016-09-02 · in Linux.Rex.1 – A multifunctional self-replicating Trojan for Linux written in Go
  10. And here's probably the first tree that contains actual source code: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/cb87526ce3531557ccf69969de...
    comment by M4v3R · 2016-08-27 · in Go's first commit
  11. The first page of commits https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=833
    comment by burrows · 2016-08-27 · in Go's first commit
  12. Much more interesting (first language spec commit): https://github.com/golang/go/commit/18c5b488a3b2e218c0e0cf2a...
    comment by dantaylor08 · 2016-08-27 · in Go's first commit
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    Go's first commit
    story by morecoffee · 2016-08-27 · 40 comments
  14. …to play around with it, you can explore existing open-source projects like the Go standard library: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/fmt/print.go . For your own repository, it needs permission to set up a webhook to re-process…
    comment by beliu · 2016-08-26 · in Show HN: Poetically simple code review on GitHub
  15. …abuse it. I'm 50/50 on that. 8. I agree about sorting being "clumsy". This is being worked on at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16721 . 9. I agree about Go not providing anything builtin or well-known for dependency versioning, but I…
    comment by ngrilly · 2016-08-25 · in Why I Don't Like Golang
  16. …issue is unfortunate - it can't be changed without potentially breaking existing programs. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11513 and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/c9UUfASVP... for some background.
    comment by rogpeppe1 · 2016-08-22 · in What Golang Is and Is Not
  17. …Expression evaluation order is not defined, and varies between compilers. ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15905 )
    comment by oconnor663 · 2016-08-22 · in What Golang Is and Is Not
  18. …want to run with? In C#: toCheck.StartsWith(prefix) Meanwhile in Golandia, this is still an issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16721#issuecomment-24015... ...and I haven't felt this kind of pinch when using C#, ever. But what do I…
    comment by easuter · 2016-08-21 · in What Golang Is and Is Not
  19. …sure. But then it irritates me to copy paste stuff. This statement is ill-informed. Have you seen https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292 and https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292-... ? Have you considered all the…
    comment by shurcooL · 2016-08-18 · in Go Proposal: first-class support for sorting slices
  20. …services on an enormous scale - Google (obvi), Dropbox, Cloudflare... here, better than copy/paste: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers You're going to recognize an awful lot of those companies. Edit: not sure if it counts, but the…
    comment by themartorana · 2016-08-16 · in Go Proposal: first-class support for sorting slices
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    Go Proposal: first-class support for sorting slices
    story by giovannibajo1 · 2016-08-16 · 104 comments
  22. Thanks for the reminder. I've filed: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16736 We actually try hard not to do platform-specific stuff, but in this case it seemed worth it, considering the problems people were having with cert validations…
    comment by bradfitz · 2016-08-16 · in Go 1.7 is released
  23. This sort of visualization would be nice for LLVM IR! The Go implementation is located here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...
    comment by jevinskie · 2016-08-16 · in Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7
  24. https://github.com/golang/go/commit/a62ae9f62fcfca02075b70e6... > SystemCertPool returns an error on Windows. Maybe it's fixable later This doesn't inspire confidence in Go as a cross platform language which is at version 1.7. If this is…
    comment by blinkingled · 2016-08-16 · in Go 1.7 is released
  25. …instead. Alternatively, you can not include the net package. Search for systemConf().canUseCgo() https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/lookup_unix...
    comment by loosescrews · 2016-08-16 · in Go 1.7 is released
  26. He is. Any clue where to start? Edit: maybe here? https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PortingPolicy
    comment by 0xdeadbeefbabe · 2016-08-11 · in Go 1.7 Release Candidate 6 is released
  27. ▲ 7
    Ask HN: Examples of exceptional Git repo wikis?
    story by lukeHeuer · 2016-08-11 · 2 comments
  28. …Sierra beta 4 is released [0], see also this issue [1] [0] https://golang.org/dl/#go1.7rc5 [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16579
    comment by okket · 2016-08-03 · in MacOS Sierra Beta
  29. …concurrency hell. [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-complete-guide-to-golang-net... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16100
    comment by zzzcpan · 2016-08-02 · in I Love Go; I Hate Go
  30. …last element of the slice and shrink the slice by one element. Also fun, it can leak memory. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
    comment by masklinn · 2016-08-02 · in I Love Go; I Hate Go
  31. Now there is an issue, even with a first hint of a fix (not tried yet) https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16570
    comment by okket · 2016-08-02 · in MacOS Sierra Beta
  32. …Java's Maven or Node's npm' [1] https://engineeredweb.com/blog/2015/go-1.5-vendor-handling/ [2] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rMoZ0rmpxw6dShalHnkuPtia...
    comment by niftich · 2016-07-29 · in Go Packaging Proposal Process
  33. …usage examples too, so we automatically show all uses of any function check out: - https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag... - https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag...
    comment by rohanpai · 2016-07-21 · in Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
  34. From the context it's obvious that 0x0 is right. AX must be 32 bits (or 64 bits) wide. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fad2bbdc6a686a20174d2e73cf...
    comment by a1k0n · 2016-07-18 · in Httpoxy – A CGI application vulnerability
  35. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/golang-announce/7J... 1.6.3 will include https://github.com/golang/go/commit/fad2bbdc6a686a20174d2e73... in addition to the security fix.
    comment by zalmoxes · 2016-07-18 · in Httpoxy – A CGI application vulnerability
  36. …of the other curves is almost comically vulnerable to timing attacks---compare [1] to [2]. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/crypto/elliptic... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/crypto/elliptic...
    comment by pbsd · 2016-07-16 · in Copy and paste-friendly Go crypto
  37. …dependencies. Instead, commit the glide.lock file and glide can fetch everything for you. ---- 1. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4594#issuecomment-660733... 2. https://github.com/Masterminds/glide
    comment by quacker · 2016-07-13 · in Asciinema 1.3 Switches from Go Back to Python
  38. ▲ 1
    A Pokémon in Go
    story by szadok · 2016-07-13 · 0 comments
  39. ▲ 3
    Proposal: Alias declarations for Go
    story by mappu · 2016-07-12 · 0 comments
  40. …Sourcegraph, and you can see (e.g.) all the repos that call http.NewRequest in Go ( https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag... ) or lots of usages of Joda-Time DataTime in Java ( https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/JodaO…
    comment by sqs · 2016-06-29 · in Making open source data more available
  41. …from evolving, as can be seen in the case of the context package (see 'Frozen' in this post https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14660#issue-138695431 ) While the above poster didn't explain his problem clearly, it is a valid complaint.
    comment by TheDong · 2016-06-24 · in Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector
  42. …Note: I'm a total newbie at Go and Windows API so every bit of abstraction was a bless to me. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14959 [1] https://github.com/golang/sys/tree/master/windows
    comment by ssebastianj · 2016-06-23 · in Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go
  43. So just some quick googling points to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9601 which seems like it's still an open issue. Either way if you're going to build UI for Windows C#/QT with an C FFI is the more sane way to go. Back when I worked…
    comment by vvanders · 2016-06-23 · in Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go
  44. …be a little repetition reading through it, but I find it to be pretty easier to read/understand. https://github.com/golang/go/tree/release-branch.go1.6/src/g... Also, I have read (at least parts of) the book, "Engineering a Compiler",…
    comment by brettlangdon · 2016-06-21 · in Show HN: Writing my first interpreter in C for fun
  45. ▲ 1
    (feature request) go get download progress and download speed status
    story by pvsukale1 · 2016-06-08 · 0 comments
  46. …about that. This reply is meant to be smugness-free. My example above is the semi-official one from https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks . The `oop` expression contains a reference to i, and so it needs to be in the loop body. I'm…
    comment by oconnor663 · 2016-06-08 · in Program your next server in Go
  47. …is "no" for Ruby, Go, Scala, and TypeScript. https://github.com/ruby/ruby/graphs/contributors https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors https://github.com/scala/scala/graphs/contributors https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/graphs…
    comment by bcherny · 2016-06-07 · in Show HN: New calendar app idea
  48. …cegraph.com/github.com/square/okhttp/-/def/JavaA... (semantic code browsing for Java) https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag... (http.NewRequest used in 8801 repositories) Sourcegraph supports Go and Java right now.…
    comment by sqs · 2016-06-07 · in Toward a URL for every function
  49. …is used, check out the usages list on the right side, which takes you here: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag... .
    comment by sqs · 2016-06-07 · in Toward a URL for every function
  50. …threshold yet. We'll release Ruby when we can do it almost as well as Go (e.g., https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/def/GoPackage... ).
    comment by sqs · 2016-06-07 · in Toward a URL for every function