Yeah not sure what the problem is. Google "download java" and this is the first link.

Oracle has two different links up, one of which requires a login. Searching "jdk download" on a clean machine brings me to the technetwork page which requires a login.

Maybe the title should be modified to: “Tell HN: It’s now slightly harder to find a Java download link in a few seconds of searching”

Its not in the first few links on my Google search. Same with someone else in this post

Google results are influenced by your search history.

This gives you a download of the JRE (the runtime components), not the JDK (the developer components). So if you're an end user of Java with no desire to compile your own Java projects, the java.com site will give you what you need.

Note also, java.com will only give you the latest short-term support version, which is currently Java 12. So if you want a LTS version, you will have to go elsewhere.

> This gives you a download of the JRE

But the post title says JRE, not JDK.