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Stream Blog
Company blog · getstream.io/blog · on HN as tschellenbachprogrammingweb
Stream Blog is the company blog at getstream.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2014, 61 different Hacker News readers have linked it 219 times, most often “Applying to YC – GetStream.io”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 1 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Mostly appears in 'Who is hiring' threads for Stream, a company selling chat and activity-feed APIs. Linked posts cover AI-assisted coding, Go and Rust, and the Winds RSS reader.
- Recommended for · 1 comments
- Described as a pretty good approach to AI-assisted software engineering, preferred over the term 'vibe coding'.1
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Scalable and fast APIs for building social networks and apps. Activity feeds, chat, and video solutions powered by a global Edge Network.
Most-linked posts?
- Applying to YC – GetStream.io9 people · 17 mentions · first linked 2014-09-24
- /team/7 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2016-07-04
- /team/6 people · 34 mentions · first linked 2021-03-01
- How a Go Program Compiles Down to Machine Code5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-09-25
- /4 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2015-05-01
- Cursor AI for Go large projects4 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2025-03-10
- macOS Performance Comparison: Flutter Desktop vs. Electron4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-10-13
- Why we switched from Python to Go4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-10-17
- Go 1.11 Rocket Tutorial3 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-09-19
- /winds/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-09
What Hacker News says?
Happy to help, did you consider https://getstream.io/chat/ ? You can integrate it into your app at far lower costs. Actually for what you're doing we're happy to sponsor the hosting at no costs.
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on “Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year”Submitted Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS as a story · 555 points
HN discussionConsider building your own (many large communities do). https://getstream.io/chat/ It's super simple to build with Stream and far lower costs than Slack. (i'm the CEO, founder so don't take my word for it). But we have quite a few customers building either communities into their app or large companies running integrated chat workflows. (think airline operations, construction collaboration etc.)
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on “Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year”Submitted Why we switched from Python to Go as a story · 380 points
HN discussionAlso curious about this. Happy to talk to anyone who wants to work with Go: https://getstream.io/careers/
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on “Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices”Submitted .IO domain name reliability issues and how we’re working around them as a story · 279 points
HN discussionYes, you're most likely doing it wrong. I would like to add that "vibe coding" is a dreadful term thought up by someone who is arguably not very good at software engineering, as talented as he may be in other respects. The term has become a misleading and frankly pejorative term. A better, more neutral one is AI assisted software engineering. This is an article that describes a pretty good approach for that: https:/…
Comment linking /blog/cursor-ai-large-projects/
on “AI 2027”Submitted Go Nil Pointers and Rust as a story · 42 points
HN discussionStream.io - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - https://getstream.io [ONSITE] We're currently expanding and looking for * Backend Developer (Golang/Python) * DevOps Engineer Our stack * AWS / Softlayer / DO (on multiple datacenters and regions) * Python/Django/Celery/RabbitMQ * Cassandra/Postgresql/Redis/Memcached * Some services in NodeJS / Ruby * Alpha services in Erlang and Golang * Puppet/CloudInit/Terraform/Cloudforma…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted We Switched from Python to Go (2017) as a story · 37 points
HN discussionStream - Amsterdam, The Netherlands Stream (Techstars NYC'15) is looking for an experienced Python/Django DevOps to join its development team. Stream ( https://getstream.io ) is a data store for building, scaling and personalizing feeds. We’re a small team, so everyone has a huge impact. With just a handful of people, we’re already processing millions of API calls every month. Your job at Stream is to work on our in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted Designing Activity Feeds as a story · 33 points
HN discussionStream.io Inc, http://getstream.io/ , Boulder, CO (Techstars NYC 15) NodeJS developer Data Scientist Details: http://angel.co/getstream-io
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)”Submitted How a Go Program Compiles Down to Machine Code as a story · 23 points
HN discussionStream https://getstream.io | Multiple Positions | Amsterdam, NL and Boulder, USA | Onsite, Remote | Full Time Stream provides APIs for building activity feeds and chat. Our team is passionate about tackling difficult tech problems at scale and creating reusable components for them. As a developer at Stream, you will build software that’s used by tens of thousands of developers and more than half a billion end-users…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted SFU, MCU, or P2P: What’s the Difference Between These WebRTC Architectures? as a story · 16 points
HN discussionStream.io | Backend Developer, Golang | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ONSITE, Full time, https://getstream.io We're currently expanding our core development team in Amsterdam and are looking for a talented Gopher. Our ideal candidate has years of experience building complex systems at scale. Our stack * Python/RabbitMQ/ZeroMQ/Golang/NodeJS * AWS/Softlayer/GCE * Cassandra/Postgresql/Redis/Memcached/RocksDB Skills and…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted How a Go Program Compiles Down to Machine Code as a story · 13 points
HN discussionNormally don't plug my own work, but this is super related. Did you ever check out Stream? https://getstream.io/ We power chat and feeds for >500 million end users. Tech is Go, RocksDB & Raft based.
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on “Apache Pulsar is an open-source distributed pub-sub messaging system”Submitted Stream Flutter: Building a Social Network with Stream Activity Feeds and Flutter as a story · 10 points
HN discussionStream | https://getstream.io | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Senior Software Engineers | Full-time | EUR 60-70k + equity | ON-SITE (NL) We're looking for three developers to expand our core team in Amsterdam. Our tech stack: Golang / Python 3 / AWS. We built and operate our own in-house distributed database (Go + Raft + RacksDB + gRPC). You can find more information about the positions on Angel List. - Senior JS Eng…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted A Guide to White-Label Chat as a story · 9 points
HN discussionStream | Amsterdam, The Netherlands ONSITE | https://getstream.io/careers | Software Engineer Stream ( https://getstream.io , Techstars NYC'15) is building a new kind of data store. A data store for building, scaling and personalizing feeds. Our users access Stream via a blazing fast, highly available and simple to use API service. Stream runs on an infrastructure optimized for performance and availability. We are l…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS as a story · 9 points
HN discussionPlease don't write programs in go. Sure it looks awesome on the surface but it's a nightmare when you get a null pointer panic in a 3rd party library. Instead use Rust. See here for more info: https://getstream.io/blog/fixing-the-billion-dollar-mistake-...
Comment linking /blog/fixing-the-billion-dollar-mistake-in-go-by-borrowing-from-rust/
on “The computers are fast, but you don't know it”Submitted SwiftUI Twitter Clone Tutorial as a story · 7 points
HN discussionN.B. this isn't fully open source because it relies on the Stream API: https://getstream.io/ They have a free quota of 3 million feed updates (not sure if total, I'm guessing per month?). Important to keep in mind because the app may be open source, but they can pull the plug on it by shutting down the web service. And so you can't self host it independently. It might be nice, not saying otherwise, but for example s…
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on “Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS”Submitted The Superior Cross Platform Framework: Flutter vs. React Native as a story · 7 points
HN discussionStream is an API for building activity feeds. You use it when you want to follow things in your application. Another use case is notification feeds. RSS readers are a tiny fraction of our customer base, but it's something we care about. API tour is here: https://getstream.io/get_started/ Currently Stream powers the feeds for over 300 million end users, Stackshare did a nice post about our tech: https://stackshare.io…
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on “Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS”Submitted Building a full stack Instagram clone with Flutter and Feeds as a story · 6 points
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