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The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/the-first-good-raspberry-pi-laptop/
2•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/greenland-sea-levels-fall
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•6m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
1•righthand•9m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•10m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•10m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
2•vinhnx•11m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
3•tosh•16m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•21m ago•0 comments

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

https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•25m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•26m 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•27m ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
4•okaywriting•34m 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•36m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•37m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•38m 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•39m ago•0 comments

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

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•39m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•40m 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•40m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•44m ago•0 comments

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

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•44m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•45m 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•46m 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
2•beardyw•54m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•54m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
2•surprisetalk•56m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•56m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
2•surprisetalk•56m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Nearly 3 out of 4 Oracle Java users say they've been audited in the past 3 years

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/oracle_java_users_audited/
96•rntn•6mo ago

Comments

msie•6mo ago
Gotta keep Larry Ellison rich!
lijok•6mo ago
What's the advantage of using Oracle's Java instead of the OSS version?
t0mas88•6mo ago
A support contract from Oracle to help you if things go wrong. Probably not worth it for the vast majority of users, but a small group is paying Oracle for this.
mcosta•6mo ago
Some java 8 applications are on life support with 0 developer time. But must be patched against CVEs because compliance.
jsiepkes•6mo ago
Who are these people who use the commercial Oracle Java version and why do they need it? When running on AWS you are probably better off running Amazon's Java, on Azure you are probably better off running Microsoft's Java, on RedHat you probably run Redhats Java, etc.
Alupis•6mo ago
It should never matter, unless you have something specific you need from one of the various proprietary JVM's. The free JVM's are usually vanilla pre-compiled OpenJDK.

Frankly, imho, you should be deploying within a container even for simple/basic apps these days - so you bring your own JVM and environment rather than use something the platform provides.

The folks paying for Oracle JDK are likely big corps that want to pass the support-buck when it's 3am and something went down...

rf15•6mo ago
I'm working for a european org that is close to government and has been granted immortality by law, so market forces only apply in a very dampened capacity. They pay a premium for Commercial Java to be able to ask for certain features or support. ...Oracle always declines them with a variety of excuses, so there's no upside. Their older developers say they use features specific to the Oracle version, but I've never seen that, it works fine with OpenJDK, Jetbrain's, Amazon's or Microsoft's JDK
shagmin•6mo ago
Sounds like the older developers have some form of Stockholm Syndrome.
thmsths•6mo ago
The older devs have zero upsides if they use a different JDK, but plenty of downsides if it introduces any issues. Is it really surprising then that they want to maintain the status quo?
OldfieldFund•6mo ago
Stockholm Syndrome is not a scientifically sound thing
npteljes•6mo ago
While a fun fact, it's not referenced here as a scientific thing, just to point out that the engineers' attachment to Oracle Java is not rational.
OldfieldFund•6mo ago
I understand. I'm just saying that Stockholm Syndrome is very likely not a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
MiguelX413•6mo ago
Nobody cares.
whynotmaybe•6mo ago
I used to work for such org, I'm 99.42% sure they don't use those features.

That situation arise when the person responsible for approving contracts doesn't understant jack and takes the most expensive one so that if any problem arise, it's not their fault.

The EU is where I found the strongest "Nobody Gets Fired For Buying IBM" mindset.

And Oracle, Microsoft, SAP and the others know it.

stackskipton•6mo ago
I used to work for Enterprise running Java 3rd party applications. Some of them had a requirement that we would only use Oracle Java if we wanted support.

Companies were starting to pick up on the fact that people were getting pretty angry with that arrangement and were offering to support OpenJDK or other Java, if we would upgrade to latest and greatest.

ano-ther•6mo ago
Seems quite onerous. There is even a market for advisors specialized in serving "companies and governments looking for help with Oracle".

https://palisadecompliance.com/about/

robotnikman•6mo ago
I'm reminded again of the meme of the Oracle org chart

https://palisadecompliance.com//wp-content/uploads/2013/11/o...

hbrav•6mo ago
Mighty bold of them to assume that most of engineering would be above most of legal.
hangonhn•6mo ago
We switched completely to AWS Corretto and told our IT department to remove all Oracle/Sun Java and ban the downloads. Then promptly ignored the Oracle emails.

Haven't heard from them since.

wnissen•6mo ago
It was the same thing for us with Qt Commercial licensing. We use only the LGPL version, dynamically link, don't modify the source, and give credit, so we're fully in compliance. To get support we chose to purchase commercial licenses for our small team of developers. Cue a regular series of calls about whether we were sure we were in compliance, etc. To add insult to injury they couldn't even navigate our purchasing process so it was a pain to pay them.

I'll take my chances in the open source world. It's a shame that the companies that created the software aren't getting paid, truly. But don't make it so obnoxious to reward you.

delfinom•6mo ago
The best thing a company can ever do is block downloads.oracle.com at the firewall.
marshray•6mo ago
It's always disappointing to me to come across some really interesting innovative new tool, like a programming language, and then find it was built on JVM.

I get it. It's all about the size of the ecosystem and the garbage collector.

Yes, there are great open source implementations. But not even Google could pull off a clean-room reimplementation without encountering unthinkable legal expense.

pvtmert•6mo ago
Call this unpopular opinion (probably gonna get downvoted anyway), but the amount Oracle gets paid because lazy-devs are well, too lazy to read which JVM arguments should they put to their deployment, requiring hand-holding by the Oracle-support team.

I understand in the olden times there were javax.* and JavaEE, but nowadays, especially in the newer JDKs, these are completely gone. Whoever maintains Java 1.6 in their core infrastructure already doomed, regardless of Oracle asking them $$$ or not.

edit: I know various Java-devs which are "runs on my machine" mindset. As a DevOps engineer, most of the production outages I took care of were avoidable by removing this mindset and actually testing the code in a sandbox environment...

JohnMakin•6mo ago
I've had an ongoing debate with a guy who is supposedly senior java dev of 20+ years that doesn't understand the most basic aspects of concurrency, and codes "worked on my local" style and engages in obnoxious blame games with DevOps and infra teams about how his application works totally fine spinning up 10,000 threads on his 16 core macbook, but for "some reason" craps out in production running on a 1 vcpu allocated container. At least a year of back and forth on this and he doesn't understand why. Wish I was making it up.
DonHopkins•6mo ago
Oracle spoiled the sport of arguing about Java -vs- other programming languages. Now all you have to say to win that argument is "lawnmower".
eadmund•6mo ago
It goes without saying that this is annoying and expensive (over $100,000 for over half the respondents and over $500,000/year for over a quarter!) for those who have been audited, even if they have done nothing wrong.

I am curious what fraction of auditees did do something wrong.

At that sort of expense, it seems like many companies could probably do better to hire a single engineer to contribute to open-source Java and prioritise their needs. Of course, the ever-present temptation would be to lay him off and freeload.