News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

ejboy

ejboy on Hacker News

Re:JDK 28 on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:36AM (#50153733)
I would never use the proposed style for Java. This is simpler and easier to understand for anyone with basic knowledge of Java. Readability is more important than fancy features:

if (obj instanceof Point p) {

    foo(p.x(), p.y());

}
Re:JDK 28 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @04:39PM (#50145263)
For me, Java 8 was tolerable. Also used IJ a lot and it hides Java verbosity and reduced a lot of typing. That's why I didn't really see the need to switch. For better or worse, these days I don't even open IJ and just use VSCode + AI Badger mostly to review my changes. Language matters even less.
Re:JDK 28 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @10:06PM (#50137162)
I never fully switched to Kotlin. It’s good, but not good enough. I also like the direction Java has been evolving in over the last 10 years, to the point that a JVM server is actually lighter than a Node.js server :)
Re:Free and Open-Source Facebook Scraper – Lightweight, No Headless Br... on Friday October 16, 2026 @11:45AM (#50119850)
Meta is one of those companies that is doing more harm than good. Scraping is just making their walled-garden content free.
Re:Analysis of artificial deranking of front page HN submissions on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:35PM (#50109087)
I see charts. I don’t see the analysis
Re:CSV import performance of Scriptella/JDBC and csvsql on PostgreSQL ... on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:02PM (#50108613)
Disclosure: I am the author of Scriptella. Recently I was investigating whether I could improve its CSV import performance, and decided to establish a baseline and compare it against existing tools.
Re:HN has lost the joy for me on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:08AM (#50039980)
I don't get HN these days - half of my comments are flagged without an explanation. Update: I am surprised this one went through.
Re:Show HN: StatLite – Lightweight dashboard for application monitoring on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:05PM (#49987110)
Yeah, that's a great test case. I am planning my own follow-up to emulate Pi using virtualization and maybe use it for CI. Feel free to follow up on GitHub discussions if you run into issues with StatLite on Pi. I would be glad to help.
Re:Show HN: StatLite – Lightweight dashboard for application monitoring on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @06:06PM (#49984804)
Great question. Low resource usage is one of my primary goals. https://github.com/PVRLabs/statlite/blob/main/docs/low-resou...

Let me know what kind of config you are interested in and I will try to run an experiment on it. I stress test StatLite in different environments, including 256MiB Alpine VPS with a Spring Boot Java app. No OOM crashes there.

Show HN: StatLite – Lightweight dashboard for application monitoring

Posted by ejboy on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:50PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://pvrlabs.xyz/statlite/

Single Go binary (~15 MB RAM), compact SQLite-based storage with configurable retention. Ideal for self-hosted app monitoring. No Prometheus/Grafana stack required.Shows app and DB health, charts for latency, http status codes, native support for Micrometer-based frameworks like Spring Boot/Micronaut/Quarkus. Simple app integration recipes for Django, Express, FastAPI, Go/Gin and others.Live...

( Read More... | 4 comments | 3 points | on HN )
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:49AM (#49638551)
There are ways to make copy-paste ChatGPT usable with things like AI Badger. Also, ChatGPT web is unmetered, so you can do review/planning work and only delegate the actual implementation to Codex.
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:23AM (#49638378)
I’d trust Marlboro as my healthcare provider before I’d install a Trojan from Zuck.

Older »