[workusername]

I don't agree. The web has many examples and tutorials of the basics. I come to HN for the special stuff. If I want to see a terraced house I can go to any town in the UK. I go to Barcelona when I want to see a Gaudi. Great that the author wrote this. Assuming it didn't get in the way of him doing something better then I might agree that the world is a better place (let's give that emotive defender speech stuff a kick), good for him, but I don't see that HN is a better place. This is not the first time that beginner dev Go stuff has been posted here, and hung around the top of the first page, it's increasing. If that's the direction HN is heading in, the impressive stuff displaced by junior tutorials, the Gaudis will leave, the juniors will post, watch the feedback loop.

[Cthulhu_]

That's your opinion, but since HN and any site with a voting system is effectively a democracy, the majority disagrees.

Granted, a lot of upvotes will probably be more of an encouragement to the author than saying 'this is worthy of HN', but still.

[hacker_9]

At least we moved on from hearing about a new Javascript framework everyday. Now we argue about how Go is/isn't a good language. Oh and whether AlphaGo beating Lee Sedoul marks the end of the human race, or means nothing at all.

[autotune]

Let's not forget the "who's hiring" threads. HackerNews is the best source for finding interesting jobs and companies IMHO.

[LanceH]

It's basic and obvious to those of us who are good at programming. But not all of us are programmers and this may give them some insight through an applied, real world example about what is obvious to us but apparently not obvious to every programmer.

No, we don't need every tutorial or every Go thread to come up, but this one wasn't so bad.