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Thibaut Rousseau
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Thibaut Rousseau's personal blog at blog.thibaut-rousseau.com covers programming. Since 2024, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “The most popular Go dependency is”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-05, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment, on the thread about UUIDs coming to Go's standard library. It discusses the value of a standard UUID type across the Go ecosystem and does not comment on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The most popular Go dependency is3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-07
- Writing and testing a paginated API iterator in Go2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-20
What Hacker News says?
I don’t really care for Go supporting UUID generation, but UUIDs being a type from the stdlib will be invaluable, if they correctly implement the JSON, Text, database/sql and other standard marshallers/unmarshallers. We seriously need a standard UUID type across the ecosystem, and I’m glad it’s coming. I did an analysis of Go dependencies[1] a few weeks ago and google/uuid is the 2nd most used dependency in the open…
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on “UUID package coming to Go standard library”Submitted Writing and testing a paginated API iterator in Go as a story · 67 points
HN discussionSubmitted SQL Transactions in Go: The Good Way as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most popular Go dependency is as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most popular Go dependency is as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most popular Go dependency is as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing and Testing a Paginated API Iterator in Go as a story · 1 points
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