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Codacy
Company blog · blog.codacy.comprogrammingai
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.
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?
- Should Open Source Developers Get Paid?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-04-10
- How to update large tables in PostgreSQL2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-14
- How to learn Scala2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-06
- DNS Problems Scaling with Kubernetes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-14
- Open salary calculator: a commitment to transparency and fairness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-13
What Hacker News says?
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”Submitted How to be a faster code reviewer as a story · 62 points
HN discussionIt 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”Submitted Visualizing Scala code style – studying Twitter and Spark as a story · 23 points
HN discussionCode 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…
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on “Understandability in software”Submitted Understanding Database Isolation levels in JDBC and Play as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSpecifics 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?”Submitted Optimizing code in Scala as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open salary calculator: a commitment to transparency and fairness as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of Java Static Analysis Tools as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grading European Banking SSL Security as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five ways to Slim your Docker as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How 47 Degrees saves 2 hours a day in code reviews as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comparing best practices across programming languages: Comments as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of Ruby Static Analysis Tools as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 ways to formalize and enforce code reviews as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open salary calculator: Codacy commitment to transparency and fairness as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Research on code coverage as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Saving Time, Learning Scala, and Improving Code Quality at Schneider Electric as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of Python Static Analysis Tools as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to prioritize technical debt? Studying issues during October on GitHub as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing with Code Reviews as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Greatest Code Quality Threats and How to Solve Them as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quiz: Should I do code review as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of Java Static Analysis Tools – Codacy – Blog as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Development: a few guidelines as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Strongly typed actors in a loosely coupled architecture as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How AI changed the Eng Manager role as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code review: slapping an AI reviewer on top of an AI author doesn't cut it as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted GitHub Copilot Code Review used to be included, starting today you pay twice as a story · 3 points
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