26 stories tagged java, newest first.
85 points by pjmlp | 17 comments
InfoQ news article on TornadoVM 7.3, an open-source framework for running Java code on GPUs, covering its FFM backend, CUDA library integration, multi-GPU support and jitLLM.
11 points by davidpolberger | 11 comments
A blog post by Steve Hannah recounting the experience of being banned from the r/java subreddit.
188 points by zinxq | 54 comments
Paul Tyma's personal blog post recounting his friendship with tech journalist Bob Cringely, beginning with a 1996 phone call about Tyma's Java book.
8 points by avaraujo | 3 comments
GitHub repository for LeTrain, an open-source Java train simulator game playable in the terminal with ASCII graphics and vi keybindings, plus a libGDX graphical UI.
180 points by hnisjafx40 | 139 comments
Blog post by Neil Madden explaining Java 17 sealed classes and how they enable exhaustive pattern matching, with examples using sealed interfaces and records.
88 points by ejboy | 35 comments
OpenJDK project page for JDK 28, listing its status and the JEPs targeted so far, such as Value Objects, Structured Concurrency, and a Simple JSON API.
10 points by swaranga | 6 comments
Blog post by Swaranga Sarma arguing that Project Lombok remains useful in Java despite the introduction of records, addressing common criticisms.
37 points by javahippie | 11 comments
OpenRewrite documentation page listing latest module versions and explaining that releases now come from the Code Genome Project instead of Maven Central, with authentication required.
494 points by delduca | 356 comments
Dealroom news feed item reporting that Oracle has banned AI-generated code contributions to OpenJDK, contrasting with Larry Ellison's claims about Oracle's internal AI use.
629 points by philonoist | 389 comments
JVM Weekly newsletter issue 180 explaining Project Valhalla's decade of development and its arrival in JDK 28.
348 points by bluestreak | 75 comments
QuestDB engineering blog post explaining how a 40-line OpenJDK change to getting current thread user CPU time on Linux removed a 400x performance gap.
376 points by thunderbong | 148 comments
Blog post recounting how the author spent weeks hand-optimizing assembly for a Java platform, only to find the gains came from benchmarking on unrealistic random data.
470 points by atomlib | 207 comments
Blog post debugging a Java service hitting 3,200% CPU across 32 cores, traced via thread dumps to concurrent unsynchronized TreeMap.put calls.
343 points by crummy | 261 comments
Cay Horstmann's blog post arguing that modern Java, with compile-time typing and good tooling, works well for small scripting and automation tasks.
555 points by goostavos | 152 comments
Show HN discussion thread where the author announces his Manning early-access book "Data-Oriented Programming in Java" and describes its approach.
387 points by taubek | 296 comments
A blog post by Maciej Walkowiak discussing the use of UUIDs as primary keys in PostgreSQL, including storage and performance considerations, with Java examples.
400 points by microflash | 179 comments
A web.dev case study explaining why Google Sheets moved its calculation worker from JavaScript to WasmGC and the performance results.
466 points by tjake | 133 comments
Foojay.io article by DataStax CTO Jonathan Ellis on building a vector index of all Wikipedia on a laptop using Java tools.
673 points by notamy | 203 comments
GitHub repository for Shattered Pixel Dungeon, an open-source traditional roguelike dungeon crawler based on Watabou's Pixel Dungeon.
374 points by saikatsg | 119 comments
GitHub repository for DBeaver, a free universal open-source database tool and SQL client supporting many databases.
424 points by madmax108 | 271 comments
Gunnar Morling's blog post announcing the One Billion Row Challenge, a contest to aggregate one billion rows of weather station data as fast as possible in Java.
465 points by alexzeitler | 198 comments
GitHub repository for Stirling-PDF, a locally hosted web application for performing various operations on PDF files such as merging, converting, and OCR.
319 points by Decabytes | 199 comments
Blog post by Andreas Lundblad explaining a bug in his decade-old Stack Overflow answer, identified by a study as the most copied snippet into GitHub projects.
352 points by wscp-dev | 587 comments
Blog post on Java 21's record patterns in switch expressions and how they enable functional programming styles comparable to Kotlin, Rust, or C#.
655 points by lukastyrychtr | 144 comments
Blog post by Andrea Bergia describing rjvm, a toy Java Virtual Machine he wrote in Rust as a learning project, and its limitations.
583 points by jameslk | 326 comments
A republished copy of Benji Smith's 2005 satirical essay "Why I Hate Frameworks," using a hammer-factory analogy to mock over-engineered software frameworks.