Hacker News with Generative AI: Go Programming

Dependency injection frameworks add confusion (rednafi.com)
When working with Go in an industrial context, I feel like dependency injection (DI) often gets a bad rep because of DI frameworks. But DI as a technique is quite useful. It just tends to get explained with too many OO jargons and triggers PTSD among those who came to Go to escape GoF theology.
Go Programming, Dependency Injection, Software Development
154 points by ingve 33 days ago | 198 comments
Deadlocks in Go: the dark side of concurrency (2021) (craig-wood.com)
This is a transcript of a talk I gave at Gophercon UK on 2021-10-25. You can watch it on YouTube (47 minutes) or see the slides and read the words here.
Go Programming, Concurrency, Programming, Software Development
20 points by leonidasv 35 days ago | 5 comments
Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns (victoriametrics.com)
Go Programming, Software Development, Best Practices
248 points by mkl95 54 days ago | 60 comments
Wget to Wipeout: Malicious Go Modules Fetch Destructive Payload (socket.dev)
A single line of obfuscated Go code wiped entire disks clean. Could your project be next?
Cybersecurity, Go Programming, Malware, Software Development
5 points by marbu 54 days ago | 0 comments
Malicious Go modules that completely wipe out your disk (neowin.net)
It's a new month, and the research team at Socket has identified malicious Go modules containing code capable of entirely wiping your computer's hard drive. Yes, totally gone.
Cybersecurity, Go Programming, Malware
7 points by bundie 56 days ago | 0 comments
Wget to Wipeout: Malicious Go Modules Fetch Destructive Payload (socket.dev)
A single line of obfuscated Go code wiped entire disks clean. Could your project be next?
Cybersecurity, Go Programming, Software Security, Malicious Code
10 points by feross 57 days ago | 0 comments
SQLite transactions and virtual tables (misfra.me)
In my previous post I introduced SQL virtual tables and how to use them in Go—registering modules per connection, defining schemas, and querying external sources as regular tables.
Databases, Go Programming, Virtual Tables, SQLite
104 points by preetamjinka 71 days ago | 9 comments
Using Signals with Go (calhoun.io)
Signals are messages that can be sent to running programs, and are often used to request that a program performs a specific behavior. The most common signal is likely the SIGINT signal, which is sent when a developer presses Ctrl+C in the terminal. This signal tells the program to stop running, and is how we terminate a running process.
Go Programming, Operating Systems, Signals
4 points by rbanffy 72 days ago | 0 comments
Idiomatic Go (2016) (shuralyov.com)
When reviewing Go code, if I run into a situation where I see an unnecessary deviation from idiomatic Go style or best practice, I add an entry here complete with some rationale, and link to it.
Go Programming, Software Development
72 points by jcbhmr 110 days ago | 67 comments
GoStringUngarbler: Deobfuscating Strings in Garbled Binaries (cloud.google.com)
In our day-to-day work, the FLARE team often encounters malware written in Go that is protected using garble. While recent advancements in Go analysis from tools like IDA Pro have simplified the analysis process, garble presents a set of unique challenges, including stripped binaries, function name mangling, and encrypted strings.
Security, Malware Analysis, Go Programming, Reverse Engineering, Deobfuscation
37 points by threat_analyst 114 days ago | 29 comments
Typosquatted Go Packages Deliver Malware Loader Targeting Linux and macOS (socket.dev)
Malicious Go packages are impersonating popular libraries to install hidden loader malware on Linux and macOS, targeting developers with obfuscated payloads.
Cybersecurity, Malware, Go Programming, Linux, macOS
11 points by feross 115 days ago | 1 comments
Confetti Framework – A Lean, Idiomatic Go Web Framework (confetti-framework.github.io)
Confetti Framework enables you to write idiomatic Go on a robust foundation that makes building new applications effortless.
Go Programming, Web Frameworks, Software Development
7 points by reindert-vetter 125 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: AI Chat – unified chat sessions across OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek (go) (github.com/presbrey)
Simple Go package for managing AI chat sessions across LLM Providers with options for message history, tool calling, and S3-compatible session storage. Works with OpenRouter, OpenAI, Google GenAI, DeepSeek, and many others with a Chat Completion API.
Generative AI, Go Programming, Open Source
6 points by presbrey 137 days ago | 0 comments
Shell-ish scripting in Go with ease (github.com/bitfield)
script is a Go library for doing the kind of tasks that shell scripts are good at: reading files, executing subprocesses, counting lines, matching strings, and so on.
Go Programming, Shell Scripting, Programming Tools, Software Libraries
140 points by begoon 147 days ago | 65 comments
Scaling LLMs with Golang: How we serve millions of LLM requests (assembled.com)
While the LLM ecosystem is overwhelmingly Python-first, we've found Go to be exceptionally well-suited for production deployments. Our Go-based infrastructure handles millions of monthly LLM requests with minimal performance tuning. Beyond Go's well-documented advantages (see Rob Pike’s excellent distillation of Go's benefits), three capabilities have proven particularly valuable for LLM workloads: static type checking for handling model outputs, goroutines for managing concurrent API calls, and interfaces for building composable response pipelines.
Go Programming, Performance, Infrastructure, API
17 points by johnjwang 164 days ago | 0 comments
How to Handle Go Security Alerts (jarosz.dev)
“Our reports say your software is not secure and has critical and high vulnerabilities. Our delivery pipeline is not working. We can’t upgrade applications in production environments!”. You see Slack messages and Salesforce escalation tickets. It doesn’t look good.
Security, Go Programming, Software Development, DevOps
15 points by bitfield 183 days ago | 0 comments
Implementing Raft: Part 0 – Introduction (2020) (thegreenplace.net)
This is the first post in a multi-part series describing the Raft distributed consensus algorithm and its complete implementation in Go. Here is a complete list:
Distributed Consensus, Go Programming, Raft Algorithm, Software Development
47 points by sebg 190 days ago | 2 comments
Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go (github.com/ergochat)
Go Programming, IRC, Software, Open Source
291 points by OuterVale 192 days ago | 154 comments
VSCode-go: Increase the Go telemetry prompt rate to 200% (github.com/golang)
Go Programming, Software Development, Open Source, Debugging, Telemetry
11 points by anna457 201 days ago | 2 comments
Lazy Docker: The lazier way to manage everything Docker (github.com/jesseduffield)
A simple terminal UI for both docker and docker-compose, written in Go with the gocui library.
Docker, Terminal UIs, Go Programming, Open Source
74 points by Gedxx 217 days ago | 9 comments
ML in Go with a Python Sidecar (thegreenplace.net)
Machine learning models are rapidly becoming more capable; how can we make use of these powerful new tools in our Go applications?
Machine Learning, Go Programming, Python, Software Development
107 points by zdw 228 days ago | 16 comments
Jia Tanning Go Code (arp242.net)
The Go compiler skips files ending with _test.go during normal compilation.
Go Programming, Software Development, Testing
33 points by zoidb 242 days ago | 5 comments
Implementing Raft: Part 4 – Key/Value Database (thegreenplace.net)
This is Part 4 in a series of posts describing the Raft distributed consensus algorithm and its complete implementation in Go.
Distributed Consensus, Go Programming, Databases, Raft
9 points by azhenley 260 days ago | 0 comments
Pocketbase v0.23.0-RC Prerelease (github.com/pocketbase)
PocketBase v0.23.0-rc is a major refactor of the internals with the overall goal of making PocketBase an easier to use Go framework.
New Releases, Software, Go Programming, Frameworks
32 points by oritsnile 264 days ago | 2 comments
Fair: Allocating Resources Fairly at Scale (medium.com)
I recently published a Go library called FAIR, designed to maintain fair resource distribution using a randomized algorithm called stochastic fair BLUE with constant memory requirements.
Resource Allocation, Go Programming, Algorithms, Fairness
7 points by nstateful 265 days ago | 1 comments
Distributed transactions in Go: Read before you try (threedots.tech)
If you work with microservices, a time may come when you need a transaction running across them.
Distributed Transactions, Go Programming, Microservices
98 points by roblaszczak 268 days ago | 56 comments
CPU Throttling for containerized Go applications explained (kanishk.io)
It’s been a long time since I wrote something here. Past few years I’ve been busy at work which is where most of my writing is done these days. This particular entry comes as an offshoot of a production disaster I saw and then took the opportunity to dive deep and learn more. What seemed like a convoluted problem at the outset, ended up being pretty fascinating in the end.
Go Programming, Containerization, Performance Optimization
96 points by imiric 271 days ago | 17 comments
Go and my realization about what I'll call the 'Promises' pattern (utoronto.ca)
Over on the Fediverse, I had a belated realization:
Go Programming, Design Patterns, Software Development
88 points by ingve 276 days ago | 95 comments
Writing an HTTP Server in Go from Scratch: Part 1 (krayorn.com)
Follow along while I write an HTTPServer in Go From scratch following a codecrafters challenge.
Go Programming, Web Development, Tutorials, Coding Challenges
25 points by krayorn 289 days ago | 1 comments
Show HN: Goroutine Monitor Powered by eBPF (github.com/keisku)
gmon is a tool designed to monitor the creation and destruction of goroutines in a Go program, drawing inspiration from the presentation Real World Debugging with eBPF.
Go Programming, Debugging, Performance Monitoring, eBPF
75 points by keisku 292 days ago | 2 comments