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 orderhttps://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/17-trust-nonstatic-f... is a damned shame. User code misses out on an important optimization available only to system-provided classes because certain frameworks have abused JNI and reflection to mutate final fields, which by all rights should be immutable. Platforms, especially compilers and runtimes, need to be absolutely strict in enforcing semantic restrictions so as to preserve optimization opportunities for the future.
I have been reading Aleksey Shipilev for a decade now, and his insight in high performance Java was been a well worth the time. He is also the maintainer of JMH, Java Microbenchmarking Harness, a tool I miss in about every other language especially Go. Because writing microbenchmarks is really difficult especially on a JIT that wants to rewritw and optimize things behind your back a couple times. Hotspot can be both brilliant and maddening. Thanks to much of his…
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
- 2
- Total points
- 435
- Total comments
- 123
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-30 | JVM Anatomy QuarksFirst breakout | signa11 | 193 | 38 |
| 2021-05-04 | JVM Anatomy Quarks | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-05-19 | JVM Anatomy Quarks | rainhacker | 1 | 0 |
| 2022-01-16 | JVM Anatomy Quarks (2021) | Tomte | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-08-12 | JVM Anatomy Quarks (2021) | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-03-13 | JVM Anatomy Quarks | mihau | 2 | 0 |
| 2023-08-26 | JVM Anatomy Quarks | gautamcgoel | 2 | 0 |
| 2024-11-10 | JVM Anatomy QuarksBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | lichtenberger | 230 | 85 |