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Sourcegraph
Company blog · sourcegraph.com/blog · on HN as sqsprogrammingai
Sourcegraph is the company blog at sourcegraph.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2013, 237 different Hacker News readers have linked it 744 times, most often “Sourcegraph: Semantic Code Search”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Give humans and agents complete context to move faster, ship accurate AI-generated code, and execute change with confidence across the world's largest, most complex codebases.
Most-linked posts?
- Sourcegraph: Semantic Code Search20 people · 43 mentions · first linked 2013-10-04
- /search20 people · 26 mentions · first linked 2018-11-23
- Sourcegraph: Search code, jump around source, see real usage examples18 people · 100 mentions · first linked 2014-04-19
- Cody – AI Coding Assistant12 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2023-12-14
- Local code completion with Ollama and Cody5 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2024-02-23
- Chat-oriented programming (CHOP) in action5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2024-07-27
- The Evolution of Go5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-07-09
- Sourcegraph Cody is Generally Available (Free and $9/month)5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-12-14
- Sourcegraph Master Plan4 people · 24 mentions · first linked 2016-11-08
- From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-01-18
What Hacker News says?
Can you point to where you saw that racist joke? I don't see anything at https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+author:jiat0...
Comment linking /search?q=context:global+author:jiat0218%40gmail.com+gitnigore&patternType=keyword&sm=0
on “Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise”Submitted IPFS: The Permanent Web as a story · 313 points
HN discussionA SourceGraph search like this shows https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+JiaT75&patte... - Jia Tan <jiat75@gmail.com> - jiat75 <jiat0218@gmail.com> ``` amap = generate_author_map("xz") test_author = amap.get_author_by_name("Jia Cheong Tan") self.assertEqual( test_author.names, {"Jia Cheong Tan", "Jia Tan", "jiat75"} ) self.assertEqual( test_author.mail_addresses, {"jiat0218@gmail.com", "jiat75@gmail.com"…
Comment linking /search?q=context:global+JiaT75&patternType=keyword&sm=0
on “Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise”Submitted Why we left AngularJS as a story · 296 points
HN discussionhttps://sourcegraph.com ?
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on “Announcing unlimited free private repos”Submitted From slow to SIMD: A Go optimization story as a story · 254 points
HN discussionAt Sourcegraph, we're trying to help solve these problems for developers everywhere ( https://sourcegraph.com ), both in open source and inside companies. GitHub’s commercial success and contributions to the world of development are impressive (and I'm speaking as a GitHub user for 8 years), but they can’t build everything developers need on their own. We’re really pumped about improving dev team collaboration in th…
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on “Dear GitHub”Submitted The lifecycle of a code AI completion as a story · 237 points
HN discussionAh, we actually have one of these at Caddy: https://caddyserver.com/docs/architecture (The filename on disk is literally "architecture.md" -- it is a Markdown file rendered by Caddy's template handler: https://github.com/caddyserver/website/blob/master/src/docs/... ) It could use some improvement, but it's been really great for helping people learn how Caddy 2 works at a high level. Beyond our docs, I always encoura…
Comment linking /github.com/caddyserver/caddy
on “Architecture.md”Submitted Sourcegraph now running on an in-browser VS Code as a story · 216 points
HN discussionWe're trying a different approach at Sourcegraph. In addition to looking at a candidate's prior work in open source if available, we ask them to complete tasks that approximate the job as closely as possible (i.e., coding on a computer): https://sourcegraph.com/blog/programming-interview Would love to hear people's thoughts and feedback!
Comment linking /blog/programming-interview
on “Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but...”Submitted Creator of Raft Algorithm introduces LogCabin as a story · 199 points
HN discussionAny comments on how your product and plans compare to https://sourcegraph.com/ ? They seem to have a similar offering with an on-premise version, though lacking the smooth editor integration.
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on “Kite – Programming Copilot”Submitted Go GC: Solving the Latency Problem in Go 1.5 as a story · 179 points
HN discussionYeah I'm getting this exact response from the above URL now: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill... Seems like they self hosted that service
Comment linking /github.com/polyfillpolyfill/polyfill-service/-/blob/library/src/get_polyfill_string.rs?L415
on “Internet Archive: Security breach alert”Submitted Stages of learning Go, with code examples as a story · 170 points
HN discussionSourcegraph ( https://sourcegraph.com ) | Software Engineer, Product Manager, Designer | ALL REMOTE Sourcegraph makes code search universal so developers can focus on solving problems instead of struggling to find and understand code. Read our master plan to learn more about what we’re building, and why it matters: https://sourcegraph.com/plan With Sourcegraph, you can instantly search across both your company’s pri…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted How OpenVSCode Server turns VS Code into a web IDE as a story · 159 points
HN discussionSourcegraph has pivoted into a git hosting appliance, it's pretty cool, even if nowhere near as full-featured. https://sourcegraph.com/
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on “Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab”Submitted From a Ruby monolith to microservices in Go as a story · 116 points
HN discussionCody (VS Code plugin) is supporting MCP https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-supports-anthropic-model-c...
Comment linking /blog/cody-supports-anthropic-model-context-protocol
on “Model Context Protocol”Submitted Sourcegraph: Search code, jump around source, see real usage examples as a story · 111 points
HN discussionYou can use MCP with Sourcegraph's Cody as well https://sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-supports-anthropic-model-c...
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on “Model Context Protocol”Submitted How Go was Made as a story · 104 points
HN discussionCheck out Sourcegraph: web source tree browsing with jump to def, find refs, and a bunch of other intelligent features. For example, try diving into the Go std lib: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/blob/src/net/... (Disclaimer: I'm one of the creators. We currently only support Go officially, but other languages soon on the way via the open-source Language Server Protocol standard. Also, big fans of Gi…
Comment linking /github.com/golang/go/-/blob/src/net/http/client.go
on “Python moved to GitHub”Submitted A dev's thoughts on developer productivity (2022) as a story · 95 points
HN discussionAwesome! We use Caddy at Sourcegraph ( https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=caddy+repo:%5Egithub%5C.com... ) and love it. Caddy makes it much easier to run our app in local dev (with HTTPS and other nice things).
Comment linking /search?q=caddy+repo:%5Egithub%5C.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph%24+f:dev/&patternType=regexp
on “Show HN: Caddy 2”Submitted Building a testable Go web app as a story · 93 points
HN discussionSourcegraph CEO here. VS Code is great for editing, but Sourcegraph is code search/browsing. So we switched to using a read-only code view that loads super fast on the web. It has basically all the same features as before: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/websocket/-/blob/... has code intelligence hovers, Git blame, symbols, etc. What features do you miss?
Comment linking /github.com/gorilla/websocket/-/blob/conn.go
on “GitLab Web IDE”Submitted Enhancing Code Completion for Rust in Cody as a story · 82 points
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