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Marcus Hirt

Personal blog · hirt.se/blogprogramming

Marcus Hirt's personal blog at hirt.se covers programming. Since 2013, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 Released”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-03, and you can follow it by feed.

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11mentions?
10HN people?
2013–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2018

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for Marcus Hirt's notes on the Java Flight Recorder API. The comment cites it for the API, supported since Java 9 in the jdk.jfr module.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 Released
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-22
  2. Java Mission Control open sourced
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-06
  3. Solving Memory Leaks Without Heap Dumps
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-23

What Hacker News says?

  1. needusername · 2018-03-16
    I am not aware of any such plans. There is a supported API starting with Java 9 http://hirt.se/blog/?p=870 but it is "JDK" (Open/Oracle JDK and derivates) specific and lives in the jdk.jfr module and package.

    Comment linking /blog/?p=870

    on “Flight Recorder becomes part of OpenJDK”
  2. Twirrim · 2018-05-06

    Submitted Java Mission Control open sourced as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  3. wheresvic1 · 2018-11-23

    Submitted Solving Memory Leaks Without Heap Dumps as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. mfiguiere · 2024-03-22

    Submitted JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 Released as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. wheresvic5 · 2022-05-09

    Submitted Solving Memory Leaks Without Heap Dumps as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. pjmlp · 2018-09-27

    Submitted Marcus Hirt comments on changes to Oracle JDK licensing as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Tomte · 2024-03-27

    Submitted JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 Released as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. javinpaul · 2018-06-20

    Submitted Fetching and Building OpenJDK Mission Control as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. javinpaul · 2018-05-07

    Submitted Java Mission Control open sourced as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. r4um · 2013-12-17

    Submitted Monitoring Lego Mindstorms with Java Mission Control as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. pron · 2013-09-12

    Submitted Java Mission Control (Finally) Released as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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