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softwarecave is a personal blog at softwarecave.org about programming and career. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Repeating annotations in Java 8”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-07, and you can follow it by feed.

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3HN people?
2014–2014first – last linked?

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

Why HN links it

Linked for a post on Java annotations and null values. The comments do not praise the writing; one commenter disputes the post and points to JDK 8 repeating annotations.

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. Repeating annotations in Java 8
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-21

What Hacker News says?

  1. mmastrac · 2014-10-04
    What is the point of this article? To vent about how much they dislike Java? It's clearly not to educate, as the least they could do is try researching how to do repeating annotations in JDK 8: http://softwarecave.org/2014/05/20/repeating-annotations-in-... And it's clear from reading the annotation documentation that null is not a valid value. It might be surprising to some developers, but it was a conscious decisi…

    Comment linking /2014/05/20/repeating-annotations-in-java-8/

    on “Java Annotations”
  2. robertp1984 · 2014-02-20

    Submitted Git: how to use stash as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  3. robertp1984 · 2014-03-24

    Submitted Common exception misuses in Java (and not only) as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  4. robertp1984 · 2014-02-24

    Submitted Git: how to ignore files as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. javinpaul · 2014-05-21

    Submitted Repeating annotations in Java 8 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. javinpaul · 2014-05-06

    Submitted Custom annotations in Java as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. robertp1984 · 2014-03-31

    Submitted Git: branching and merging as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. robertp1984 · 2014-03-10

    Submitted Git: how to use tags as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. robertp1984 · 2014-03-03

    Submitted Git: how to resolve merge conflicts as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. robertp1984 · 2014-02-19

    Submitted Why I prefer Java over C++ as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. robertp1984 · 2014-02-18

    Submitted Definition of Done: or why it is very risky to say that something is done as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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