Hacker News with Generative AI: Netflix

Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation (netflixtechblog.com)
Netflix’s personalized recommender system is a complex system, boasting a variety of specialized machine learned models each catering to distinct needs including “Continue Watching” and “Today’s Top Picks for You.” (Refer to our recent overview for more details). However, as we expanded our set of personalization algorithms to meet increasing business needs, maintenance of the recommender system became quite costly.

Machine Learning, Recommendation Systems, Netflix, Personalization, Optimization

7 points by benocodes 3 days ago | 0 comments

Netflix’s Media Production Suite (netflixtechblog.com)
The journey from script to screen is full of challenges in the ever-evolving world of film and television.

Netflix, Media Production, Film, Television, Technology

256 points by MattSayar 3 days ago | 141 comments

Netflix's Adolescence Is a Trojan Horse for Online Censorship and Surveillance (reclaimthenet.org)
Somewhere between Black Mirror and a parliamentary white paper, Netflix birthed Adolescence — a four-part drama so hyped it makes The Crown look like daytime TV.

Netflix, Censorship, Surveillance, Entertainment, Drama

29 points by unboxingelf 10 days ago | 4 comments

Video encoding requires using your eyes (redvice.org)
Netflix wrote a post on their engineering blog about a “deep downscaler” for video, and unfortunately it’s rife with issues. I originally saw the post due to someone citing it, and was incredibly disappointed when I clicked through and read it. Hopefully this post offers a counter to that!

Video Encoding, Software, Netflix, Engineering

92 points by zdw 35 days ago | 50 comments

Netflix says its brief Apple TV app integration was a mistake (theverge.com)
Netflix says its brief Apple TV app integration was a mistake

Netflix, Apple TV, Streaming Services, Business, Technology

56 points by croes 46 days ago | 63 comments

Netflix increases UK subscription prices despite record audience (theguardian.com)
Whether you are binging The Night Agent or American Primeval, getting a Netflix fix has become pricier in the UK as the streaming giant increased subscription costs despite a record audience.

Netflix, Streaming Services, United Kingdom, Business, Consumerism

3 points by adrian_mrd 54 days ago | 0 comments

Netflix price increase leaves fans furious (the-sun.com)
CUSTOMERS are fuming after Netflix confirmed another price increase on Tuesday.

Netflix, Pricing, Consumer Behavior, Entertainment

8 points by mgh2 71 days ago | 8 comments

Netflix Increases Prices Again (macrumors.com)
Netflix is raising its prices for all plans in several countries, including the United States, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina.

Netflix, Streaming Services, Pricing, Business

9 points by impish9208 72 days ago | 2 comments

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.

Netflix, Television, South Korea, Streaming, Pop Culture

224 points by ecliptik 84 days ago | 290 comments

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.

Cloud Computing, Netflix

46 points by benocodes 92 days ago | 52 comments

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.

Cloud Computing, Cost Management, Software Development, Netflix

4 points by pjmlp 105 days ago | 2 comments

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.

Cloud Computing, Cost Management, Netflix, AWS

10 points by thunderbong 107 days ago | 2 comments

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

Streaming, Sports, Netflix, Boxing, Consumer Issues

8 points by chirau 139 days ago | 2 comments

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.

Boxing, Streaming, Sports, Entertainment, Netflix

492 points by storf45 139 days ago | 925 comments

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.

Netflix, Distributed Systems, Data Management

133 points by benocodes 141 days ago | 71 comments

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.

Software Engineering, Netflix, System Design, Concurrency, Debugging

344 points by zdw 146 days ago | 165 comments

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, Tax Fraud, Europe, Business, Law Enforcement

339 points by user20180120 150 days ago | 342 comments

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, Tax Fraud, Amsterdam, Netherlands, France

8 points by reynoldss 150 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Generative AI, Gaming, Netflix, Artificial Intelligence, Business

7 points by belter 150 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Streaming, Entertainment, Netflix, Content Removal

66 points by amichail 150 days ago | 77 comments

Netflix Shuts Down Its AAA Game Studio (gamefile.news)
One of Netflix’s most intriguing video game studios is no more.

Video Games, Netflix, Business, Gaming Industry

39 points by disqard 162 days ago | 56 comments

Netflix will drop subscriber number reporting (informitv.com)

Netflix, Business, Streaming, Media

14 points by tu7001 183 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Netflix, Backend Infrastructure, Streaming Services

93 points by gslin 197 days ago | 18 comments

Diverse ML Systems at Netflix (netflixtechblog.com)

Machine Learning, Netflix, Technology

20 points by savin-goyal 255 days ago | 0 comments

Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator (github.com/Netflix)

Open Source, Netflix, Workflow Orchestration, Software

141 points by kaypee901 255 days ago | 36 comments

Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator (netflixtechblog.com)

Netflix, Workflow Automation, Orchestration, Software, Cloud

307 points by vquemener 255 days ago | 160 comments

Netflix's Password Sharing Crackdown Backfires with Slow Subscriber Growth in Q2 (vcpost.com)