Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThere's the language and there's the ecosystem. A lot of negative feelings that still linger are, IMHO, directed more at some of the painful historical aspects of the ecosystem: J2EE XML configuration hell, EJBs, bloated application servers, XML for everything, JAX-WS, SOAP, ant, classloader problems, maven dependency hell, 10 different logging libraries, etc... A lot of this stuff truly sucked. But I feel things have improved over time. Dropwizard, gradle, embedded jetty, jersey, guava, Spring boot, etc... The…
As an experienced Java programmer , I decided to do a project in Golang to see for myself what the hype was all about. And it was...underwhelming. The Go plugin for VScode barely works - terribly slow, inconsistent autocomplete, hanging during debugging etc. I had to pay for Goland just to get a reasonable experience which is still worse than Java+IntelliJ community edition. Language wise - you need for loops for everything, no maps or streams. Also where are the…
After working on large Javascript projects and running into and cleaning up countless issues that static typing would solve, I've come around to being a huge fan of static typing. Now, every line in an untyped codebase looks like a potential typo or reference to an old function that was refactored ages ago just waiting to blow up at runtime. Tests help, but only after you've written them. I really like Javascript, so I've been using Facebook's Flow type checker…
Discussed back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8677556 And in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11386306
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 656
- Total comments
- 669
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-11-30 | Java for EverythingFirst breakout · Best thread | cousin_it | 387 | 338 |
| 2016-03-30 | Java for Everything (2014) | electrum | 89 | 83 |
| 2019-06-12 | Java for Everything (2014) | Danieru | 4 | 2 |
| 2021-04-25 | Java for Everything (2014)Latest 20+ point return | ingve | 172 | 246 |
| 2023-07-30 | Java for Everything (2014)Hall induction | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-09-19 | Java for Everything (2014) | _ttg | 2 | 0 |