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Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•1m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•1m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
1•vinhnx•1m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
2•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Moli P2P – An ephemeral, serverless image gallery (Rust and WebRTC)

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•15m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•16m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•17m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
3•okaywriting•24m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
2•todsacerdoti•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•27m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•28m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•29m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•30m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•30m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•34m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•35m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•36m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•36m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
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Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
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OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
2•surprisetalk•47m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
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Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

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2•surprisetalk•47m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
5•pseudolus•47m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•47m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•49m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

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2•1vuio0pswjnm7•49m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•49m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Adk-go: code-first Go toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents

https://github.com/google/adk-go
86•maxloh•2mo ago

Comments

czbond•2mo ago
Thanks for posting. I am in the midst of evaluating some combination of n8n, open ai swarms, and others. This is a great addition
JyB•2mo ago
In also interested in n8n. From what I gathered it’s a everything baked in app, not a lib. Meaning that unless you re doing upstream contributions you don’t actually code anything. Just manage big configs. How are you planning to use this toolkit with it?
jand•2mo ago
I have not test-driven adk-go. But if you - like me - have not toyed around with agents until now, there is a readable, nice example in [1] which explains itself.

[1] https://github.com/google/adk-go/tree/main/examples/web

czbond•2mo ago
I was surprised a native typescript style agent wasn't a core initial offering.
tptacek•2mo ago
A reminder that, while this is pretty neat and also probably offers a lot of convenient tooling for GCloud resources already built, an "agent" is simply an LLM call in a loop, each call presenting some number of available tools. If you're building your first agent, I'd recommend coding to an LLM API (probably the OpenAI Responses API, which is sort of a lingua franca of LLMs now) directly.

This is one of those cases where it's really helpful to code, at least once, at one layer of abstraction below the one that seems most natural to you.

czbond•2mo ago
Agree. I've first used the Responses endpoint, and besides context like questions - it made me realize I did not want to build or self host in a lot of the gaps AI agents really needed. Eg: context, security, controls, external data source connection management, interaction mapping, etc.
drcxd•2mo ago
Remind me the another recent post: You should write an agent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840088
rcaught•2mo ago
That's because OP wrote that
kami23•2mo ago
Been looking forward to this. I'm not up to date on my python and reviewing Claude's implementation of the python library has taught me a lot.

Gonna point Claude at our repo and see if I can do an easy conversion, makes the amount of reviews I have to do a bit more bearable.

red_hare•2mo ago
Having tried a few of these agent frameworks now, ADK-Python has easily been my favorite.

- It’s conceptually simple. An agent is just an object, you assign it tools that are just functions, and agents can call other agents.

- It’s "batteries included". You get a built-in code execution environment for doing math, session management, and web-server mode for debugging with a front-end.

- Optional callbacks provide clean hooks into the magic (for example, anonymizing or de-anonymizing data before and after LLM calls).

- It integrates with any model, supports MCP servers, and easy enough to hack in your existing session management system.

I'm working on a course in agent development and it's the framework I plan to teach with.

I would absolutely take this for a spin if I didn't hate Go so much :)

RamblingCTO•2mo ago
Maybe also consider pocketflow, it's even more simple and verbose.
elzbardico•2mo ago
Why doing agents with go?

Python is way more ergonomic when dealing with text than go. Go's performance advantages are basically irrelevant in an AI agent, as execution time is dominated by inference time.

srameshc•2mo ago
Why not Go ? AI agents are not just scripts, they are the same as any other application that needs to scale. Java or Go, if application can perform better then it is always good to have an option.
mhast•2mo ago
There are Python bindings for the framework as well.

Personally I could see Go being quite nice to use if you want to deploy something as eg a compiled serverless function.

I'm assuming the framework behaves the same way regardless of language so you could test using Python first if you want and then move over to eg Go if needed.

tptacek•2mo ago
Go is pretty fantastic to write agents in; it has a very good and expansive standard library and a huge mess of third-party libraries. A lot of very basic things agents tend to want to do (make HTTP requests, manage SQLite databases) are very idiomatic in Go already. It's easy to express concurrency in Go, which is nice if you're running multiple context windows and don't want to serialize your whole agent on slow model calls. It's very fast and it compiles to binaries, which, depending on how you're deploying your agent, might be a big win or might not be.
jryio•2mo ago
Yes and I'll add that Go routines can model task queues in Go code easily - then schedule and cancel those task reliably using context cancellation and channels. All while being executed concurrently (or in parallel).

Go is the sweet spot in expressive concurrency, a compile time type system, and a strong standard library with excellent tooling as you mentioned.

My hope is that, similar to Ruby in web development, Python's mind share in LLM coding will be siphoned to Go.

adastra22•2mo ago
Go, or Rust. Not here to fight language wars, but either of these two popular languages would be vastly better than Python.
JyB•2mo ago
Concurrency. Unless you’re happy stopping the world on llm io… Go excels at handling network calls and the like. It’s basically what agents are.
PantaloonFlames•2mo ago
100%, I don’t really get the justification for golang, today. But. Looking forward we can imagine a world of agents, agents everywhere , including embedded into systems that are built in go. So I guess it would be more suitable for that.
stpedgwdgfhgdd•2mo ago
Because Go has stronger compile-time type safety than Python. And of course concurrency.

Fwiiw I noticed that colleagues using other languages like Java and JS with Claude Code sometimes get compile errors. I never get compile errors (anymore) with Go. The language is ideal for LLMs. Cant tell how CC is doing lately for Python.

solatic•2mo ago
> Go's performance advantages are basically irrelevant in an AI agent, as execution time is dominated by inference time

Inference time is only the bottleneck if you are running a single agent loop, for a single consumer, with a single inference call being made at a time.

If you are serving a bunch of users, handling a bunch of requests, not all of which result in inference calls, some of which may result in multiple inference calls being made in parallel in independent contexts, you start to understand that concurrency matters a lot.

Might as well start with a language that helps you handle that concurrency instead of a language that treats it (asyncio) as a bastard edge case undeserving of first-class support.

fishmicrowaver•2mo ago
Is there anything substantively better here vs. the many other agent frameworks, or is this just the gemini specific answer to them?
PantaloonFlames•2mo ago
This is a golang variant of the already released “agent development kit” in Java and python.

And… none of them are Gemini specific. You can use them with any model you like, including Gemini.

I’m not an expert but comparing it to langgraph, it’s more opinionated , less flexible. But, easier to get started for basic agent apps.

Worth a spin.

muratsu•2mo ago
fwiw it says it is gemini optimized on readme. Unsure to what extent