Hacker News with Generative AI: Netflix

Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale (tokyoweekender.com)
In less than a week, the second season of Squid Game — a show about desperate people participating in deadly challenges for money — was viewed nearly 70 million times, becoming the most popular Netflix show in 92 countries.
Cloud Efficiency at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)
At Netflix, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our cloud infrastructure needs, such as compute, storage, and networking to build and run the streaming platform that we love.
Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate (theregister.com)
Keeping track of the amount of cloudy resources an org uses, and the cost of doing so, is notoriously tricky – so tricky, indeed, that even Netflix isn't on top of it.
Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate (theregister.com)
Keeping track of the amount of cloudy resources an org uses, and the cost of doing so, is notoriously tricky – so tricky, indeed, that even Netflix isn't on top of it.
Netflix customers infuriated by broken and poor livestream of Tyson/Paul fight (ycombinator.com)
Netflix customers infuriated by broken and poor livestream of Tyson/Paul fight
Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson (sportingnews.com)
Boxing fans hoped Netflix's live coverage of Jake Paul's clash with Mike Tyson — and the matches that preceded it —would go off without a hitch.
Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction (netflixtechblog.com)
In our previous blog post, we introduced Netflix’s TimeSeries Abstraction, a distributed service designed to store and query large volumes of temporal event data with low millisecond latencies. Today, we’re excited to present the Distributed Counter Abstraction. This counting service, built on top of the TimeSeries Abstraction, enables distributed counting at scale while maintaining similar low latency performance. As with all our abstractions, we use our Data Gateway Control Plane to shard, configure, and deploy this service globally.
We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix (pushtoprod.substack.com)
Our CPUs were dying, the bug was temporarily un-fixable, and we had no viable path forward. Here's how we managed to survive.
Netflix Europe offices raided in tax fraud probe (bbc.co.uk)
Offices of streaming giant Netflix in Paris and Amsterdam have been raided by the French and Dutch authorities as part of an investigation into tax fraud, French judicial sources say.
Netflix European headquarters in Amsterdam raided in tax fraud investigation (nltimes.nl)
Authorities raided the offices of Netflix in the Netherlands and France as part of an investigation into tax fraud, the French authorities told Reuters.
Netflix Bullish on Gen AI for Games After Laying Off Human Game Developers (404media.co)
A Netflix executive revealed that the company’s video game division is investing in generative AI in order to “accelerate the velocity of development and unlock truly novel game experiences that will surprise, delight, and inspire players” just weeks after the company shut down its prestige game studio and laid off game developers.
Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles (theverge.com)
Netflix will delist just about all of its interactive shows and films as of December 1st, the company confirms to The Verge.
Netflix Shuts Down Its AAA Game Studio (gamefile.news)
One of Netflix’s most intriguing video game studios is no more.
Netflix will drop subscriber number reporting (informitv.com)
Netflix's Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer (netflixtechblog.com)
At Netflix our ability to deliver seamless, high-quality, streaming experiences to millions of users hinges on robust, global backend infrastructure.
Diverse ML Systems at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)
Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator (github.com/Netflix)
Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator (netflixtechblog.com)
Netflix's Password Sharing Crackdown Backfires with Slow Subscriber Growth in Q2 (vcpost.com)
Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan (macrumors.com)
Netflix Phasing Out Basic Ads Free Plan (macrumors.com)
Netflix wants managers to ask whether they would rehire their employees (fortune.com)
Netflix's bet on advanced video encoding (theverge.com)
German Court Fines Netflix €7.05M for Infringement of Broadcom HEVC Patent (2023) (broadcom.com)
'Meridian': Why Netflix Is Helping Competitors with Content and Code (2016) (variety.com)
Netflix House Will Let You Experience Your Favorite Shows, Movies in Real Life (netflix.com)
The Magical Mystery Merge Or Why we run FreeBSD-current at Netflix (2023) [pdf] (freebsd.org)
Netflix is finally killing off support for 2nd and 3rd generation Apple TVs (appleinsider.com)
Netflix is removing offline downloads from its Windows app (twitter.com)
Serving Netflix Video at 400Gb/S on FreeBSD [pdf] (freebsd.org)