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Codacy is the company blog at blog.codacy.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2013, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 94 times, most often “Should Open Source Developers Get Paid?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.

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94mentions?
25HN people?
2013–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 21 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this company blog for posts on learning Scala, typed actors in Akka, cyclomatic code complexity and coding standards, mostly as bare links or sources for their own points.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

News and thoughts on code quality, code reviews, code analytics and static analysis.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Should Open Source Developers Get Paid?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-10
  2. How to update large tables in PostgreSQL
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-14
  3. How to learn Scala
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-06
  4. DNS Problems Scaling with Kubernetes
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-14
  5. Open salary calculator: a commitment to transparency and fairness
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. paul_blei · 2016-11-03Recommends
    take a look at: http://blog.codacy.com/2015/07/03/how-to-learn-scala/

    Comment linking /2015/07/03/how-to-learn-scala/

    on “Scala 2.12.0 is now available”
  2. Submitted How to be a faster code reviewer as a story · 62 points

    HN discussion
  3. It seems that typed actor support it somewhat incomplete. Once you wanted to use typed actors with routers and resizing, there was no documentation. There were some mailing lists posts with suggestions that don't work. I don't know if anything changed in the meanwhile, but this blog post suggests that it's still not well-supported: http://blog.codacy.com/2014/01/29/typed-actors-with-routing/ One thing that I dislike…

    Comment linking /2014/01/29/typed-actors-with-routing/

    on “Show HN: bitcoin-akka – a btcwallet client, written in Scala and built on akka”
  4. Submitted Visualizing Scala code style – studying Twitter and Spark as a story · 23 points

    HN discussion
  5. Code complexity is a thing. It doesnt describe understandability but its a pretty decent proxy in my experience. > In 1976, Thomas McCabe Snr proposed a metric for calculating code complexity, called Cyclomatic Complexity. https://blog.codacy.com/an-in-depth-explanation-of-code-comp... There is also likely some simple metrics you could get by looking at names of things alone. Common substrings, length, and diversity…

    Comment linking /an-in-depth-explanation-of-code-complexity/

    on “Understandability in software”
  6. Submitted Understanding Database Isolation levels in JDBC and Play as a story · 17 points

    HN discussion
  7. Specifics depend on project(s)/work environment(s); but literate programming[0] and using/enforcing coding/git/versioning standards can help automate a lot of things[1][2][3]. aka re: outdated responses -- blog and/or email list for when 'new/updated version' pushed out with errata/change log location. [0] : https://blog.bitsrc.io/literate-programming-a-radical-approa... [1] : https://blog.codacy.com/coding-standard…

    Comment linking /coding-standards

    on “Ask HN: How do you keep your documentation, how-to, examples and blogs updated?”
  8. Submitted Optimizing code in Scala as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Open salary calculator: a commitment to transparency and fairness as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Review of Java Static Analysis Tools as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Grading European Banking SSL Security as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Five ways to Slim your Docker as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted How 47 Degrees saves 2 hours a day in code reviews as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Comparing best practices across programming languages: Comments as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Review of Ruby Static Analysis Tools as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted 6 ways to formalize and enforce code reviews as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Open salary calculator: Codacy commitment to transparency and fairness as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Research on code coverage as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Saving Time, Learning Scala, and Improving Code Quality at Schneider Electric as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Review of Python Static Analysis Tools as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted How to prioritize technical debt? Studying issues during October on GitHub as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Developing with Code Reviews as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Your Greatest Code Quality Threats and How to Solve Them as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Quiz: Should I do code review as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Review of Java Static Analysis Tools – Codacy – Blog as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Open Source Development: a few guidelines as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Strongly typed actors in a loosely coupled architecture as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted How AI changed the Eng Manager role as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Code review: slapping an AI reviewer on top of an AI author doesn't cut it as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  30. Submitted GitHub Copilot Code Review used to be included, starting today you pay twice as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion

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