Hacker News with Generative AI: Go Programming

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 24 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 28 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 29 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 39 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 51 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 61 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 78 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 98 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 104 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 106 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 116 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 131 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 142 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 157 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 174 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 179 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 179 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 182 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 185 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 190 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 203 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 207 days ago | 2 comments

Don't defer Close() on writable files (2017) (joeshaw.org)
But this idiom is actually harmful for writable files because deferring a function call ignores its return value, and the `Close()` method can return errors. **For writable files, Go programmers should avoid the `defer` idiom or very infrequent, maddening bugs will occur.**

Go Programming, Best Practices, Debugging

253 points by misonic 207 days ago | 302 comments

Language and shell in Go with 92% test coverage and instant CI/CD [video] (youtube.com)

Go Programming, Software Development, Testing, Video Tutorials

162 points by todsacerdoti 215 days ago | 41 comments

Show HN: Monogo – Evolve your go workspace to a real monorepo (github.com/nicolasgere)

Go Programming, Monorepos, Software Development, GitHub

34 points by elmazout 222 days ago | 10 comments

Duck typing (horror) in Go (ccampo.me)

Go Programming, Software Design, Duck Typing

50 points by thunderbong 224 days ago | 57 comments

An unordered list of things I miss in Go (capivaras.dev)