Hacker News with Generative AI: Streaming

Star Trek: Section 31 is Paramount Plus' attempt to add spies to Trek (polygon.com)
Either Section 31 is a betrayal of everything the Federation stands for, or the Federation isn’t utopian

Star Trek, Television, Streaming, Science Fiction, Paramount Plus

4 points by Tomte 5 days ago | 0 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 8 days ago | 290 comments

My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks (reddit.com)
My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

Amazon, Streaming, Consumer Issues, Technology

138 points by MourYother 9 days ago | 97 comments

Disney to Merge Hulu and Live TV with Fubo, Taking on YouTube TV (hollywoodreporter.com)
The Walt Disney Co. will merge its streaming multichannel video service Hulu with Live TV with its competitor Fubo in a surprise deal that will shake up the streaming TV business, the companies said Monday.

Streaming, Media, Competition

14 points by jbredeche 11 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Open Rewind – POC for audio and screen and video streaming to S3 (github.com/janwilmake)
Today I was inspired by this tweet after which I fell into this rabbit hole to create an efficient recorder for your Screen, System audio, and Mic.

Open Source, Streaming, Audio/Video, Cloud Storage

78 points by wwoessi 13 days ago | 33 comments

I'm Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn't Still Better Than Streaming Digital (gizmodo.com)
Holiday season 2024 solidified it: we really need to stop going along with the lie that streaming is better than physical media.

Streaming, Physical Media, Digital Media, Entertainment, Opinion

18 points by rntn 22 days ago | 14 comments

38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming (media.ccc.de)
38C3: Illegal Instructions Streaming

Streaming, Hackers, Conferences

18 points by ruik 22 days ago | 1 comments

Netflix will never beat outdoor cinema in Australia (theconversation.com)
In December 1916, as war raged in Europe, an entrepreneurial pearl diver took a chance on some bleeding-edge technology and installed an outdoor cinema in one of the country’s most isolated towns – Broome, Western Australia.

Entertainment, Australia, History, Streaming

20 points by billybuckwheat 22 days ago | 3 comments

Speedrunner Accused of Cheating Live on Stream with Audio Analysis [video] (youtube.com)

Speedrunning, Gaming, Cheating, Video Games, Streaming

7 points by minimaxir 22 days ago | 1 comments

In China, revenue from short video drama (1-2 minute eps) has surpassed movies (twitter.com)

China, Entertainment, Short-Form Video, Movies, Streaming

4 points by mintone 37 days ago | 0 comments

PBS Retro (roku.com)

Streaming, Television, Retro, PBS

10 points by bookofjoe 44 days ago | 1 comments

Keyset cursors, not offsets, for Postgres pagination (sequinstream.com)
We're building Sequin, a Postgres CDC tool to streams and queues like Kafka, SQS, HTTP endpoints, and more. Efficient, correct pagination is paramount for our backfill process, so we use keyset cursors extensively.

Databases, Pagination, Postgres, Software Development, Streaming

66 points by todsacerdoti 44 days ago | 7 comments

Show HN: Automate your studio – mute a mixer channel to turn your PTZ camera (github.com/KopiasCsaba)
OSCBridge is a tool to help automate operations with audio/streaming gear.

Automation, Audio Engineering, Streaming, Software, Open Source

84 points by kcsaba2 46 days ago | 30 comments

Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month (bleepingcomputer.com)
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide and made €250 million ($263M) per month.

Cybercrime, Piracy, Streaming, Law Enforcement

88 points by woldemariam 47 days ago | 166 comments

Broadcastarr: Stream web content through your Jellyfin instance (github.com/Billos)
Broadcastarr is a service that allows you to broadcast media content retrieved from web pages.

Streaming, Media, Software, Jellyfin

66 points by thunderbong 57 days ago | 38 comments

Kid Executes $30K Rug Pull with Gen Z Quant Token He Created During Live Stream (insidebitcoins.com)
A young streamer executed a $30K rug pull with a meme coin by the name of Gen Z Quant (QUANT).

Cryptocurrency, Scams, Streaming, Meme Coins

3 points by clwg 57 days ago | 2 comments

SOYO – Stream on Your Own (github.com/fal3n-4ngel)

Streaming, Software, Open Source

40 points by jason1610 58 days ago | 1 comments

Apple TV+ Will License Its Movies to Other Services to Reduce Billions in Losses (bloomberg.com)
Brian Robbins has guided Paramount through the pandemic, two strikes and a sale. Now he’s facing the wicked witch of the west.

Streaming, Media, Business, Finance

23 points by m463 59 days ago | 12 comments

Apple TV+ spent $20B on original content. If only people watched (arstechnica.com)
Apple TV+ launched in 2019. Since then, the company has spent over $20 billion to build an impressive library of original content, Bloomberg reported earlier this year. Yet, despite a highly regarded library of shows and movies with big names in acting and directing, Apple TV+ only garnered 0.3 percent of US screen viewing time in June 2024, per Nielsen.

Streaming, Apple, Television, Content

9 points by asplake 59 days ago | 2 comments

Software-defined (Internet) radio with Liquidsoap (2023) (yossarian.net)
This is going to be another short “how-to” blog post on music management, this time on declarative Internet radio streaming with Liquidsoap. I couldn’t find a ton of great examples of Liquidsoap online while defining my own radio stream (besides the project’s own excellent docs), so I figured I’d write one.

Software, Music, Streaming, Radio, Tutorials

59 points by walterbell 60 days ago | 9 comments

Netflix streaming issues leaving Mike Tyson-Jake Paul viewers livid (nypost.com)
Netflix isn’t built for it.

Streaming, Entertainment, Sports, Celebrity

25 points by ra0x3 63 days ago | 4 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 63 days ago | 2 comments

Tyson vs. Paul: Netflix suffers significant issues on fight night (usatoday.com)
With all eyes on the much-anticipated fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, fans took to social media to share their reaction and widespread frustration with Netflix's first boxing event.

Sports, Streaming, Social Media

7 points by alach11 63 days ago | 4 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 63 days ago | 925 comments

Ask HNs: Is Tyson vs. Paul Crashing Netflix? (ycombinator.com)
I thought Netflix paid their engineers well. Their service is absolutely not doing well under this kind of load.

Sports, Streaming, Technology, Business

27 points by magic_man 63 days ago | 19 comments

Jepsen: Bufstream 0.1 (jepsen.io)
Bufstream is a Kafka-compatible streaming system which stores records directly in an object storage service like S3. We found three safety and two liveness issues in Bufstream, including stuck consumers and producers, spurious zero offsets, and the loss of acknowledged writes in healthy clusters. These problems were resolved by version 0.1.3.

Distributed Systems, Streaming, Kafka, Object Storage, Bug Fixes

224 points by aphyr 67 days ago | 85 comments

Differential Dataflow for the Masses (github.com/brurucy)
This library provides an implementation of the DBSP language for incremental streaming computations.

Data Processing, Programming, Software, Big Data, Streaming

42 points by rebanevapustus 70 days ago | 11 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 74 days ago | 77 comments

Superstreamer – OSS streaming toolkit from video source to player (github.com/matvp91)
Superstreamer is a self hostable platform that aims to simplify the complexities of video delivery. Transcode and package your media for online streaming with simple API calls and sane defaults, or craft dynamic HLS playlists on the fly with bumpers, ads and filters.

Open Source, Streaming, Video, Media, Software

158 points by thunderbong 77 days ago | 11 comments

Everyone Got Lost in Netflix's Endless Library (nytimes.com)
Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture.

Streaming, Television, Culture, Media

5 points by gmays 89 days ago | 2 comments