Hacker News with Generative AI: Streaming

Twitch caps streamers' storage at 100 hours of highlights and uploads (techcrunch.com)
Twitch on Wednesday announced it will begin limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads, and will delete content if a channel exceeds the limit.

Streaming, Twitch, Content Management, Video

4 points by el_duderino 1 day ago | 0 comments

Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System (jellyfin.org)
Jellyfin is the volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media.

Free Software, Media, Streaming, Open Source, Self-Hosting

486 points by doener 6 days ago | 284 comments

Show HN: Fluvio 38.8x faster than Kafka (infinyon.com)
At InfinyOn for the past 6 years we have obsessed over developer ergonomics, functionality, and reliability of Fluvio and Stateful DataFlow. It’s not trivial to build a distributed streaming engine from the ground up.

Software, Streaming, Performance, Comparisons, Open Source

10 points by debadyutirc 9 days ago | 2 comments

YouTube CEO:TV surpassed Mobile as primary device for YouTube viewing in the US (youtube)
This year marks YouTube’s 20th birthday. In two decades, YouTube has transformed culture through video and built a thriving creative economy.

YouTube, Streaming, Television, Digital Media, Culture

22 points by smgit 9 days ago | 11 comments

More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile (engadget.com)
YouTube has officially been around for two decades and a lot has changed over the years — including how people watch it. Now, a new report from YouTube claims TV has overtaken mobile to become the primary device for viewing content in the US.

YouTube, Streaming, Television, Mobile

64 points by mikece 10 days ago | 87 comments

Physical media is officially back (embedded.substack.com)
“Those movies and TV shows that you're watching on Netflix and Amazon, they're going to disappear,” Allison NB says.

Streaming, Entertainment, Media, Physical Media

16 points by herbertl 15 days ago | 12 comments

Disney+ loses 700k subscribers following price increase (macrumors.com)
Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers worldwide in recent months, according to Disney's earnings results for the first quarter of 2025.

Streaming, Disney, Business, Price Increases

75 points by mgh2 15 days ago | 77 comments

Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube? (tedium.co)
In recent years, we’ve complained a lot about Warner Bros. Discovery, in part because their decision-making has seemed almost toxic and damaging to the creative community.

Streaming, Media, Entertainment, Business

641 points by shortformblog 16 days ago | 473 comments

Spotify Paid $10B to the Music Industry in 2024, $1B More Than Last Year (variety.com)
Spotify paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024 — some $1 billion more than last year, the previous record — making its total around $60 billion since it was founded in 2006. The company made the announcement in a blog post Tuesday morning.

Music Industry, Streaming, Business, Spotify, Finance

37 points by ilamont 17 days ago | 79 comments

FOSDEM 2025: Streaming Schedule (fosdem.org)
Links to the live streaming in each room will appear on this page during the conference.

FOSDEM 2025, Conferences, Streaming, Technology

147 points by torvald 20 days ago | 27 comments

Airflow – Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices (airflow.app)
Airflow is different We're not cutting any corners. This is not yet another FFmpeg wrapper like you might have seen elsewhere. Don't get us wrong, we love FFmpeg and use many of its parts under the hood, but our custom built video processing pipeline goes way beyond wrapping FFmpeg and calling it a day. We've been working on it for years it and it lets us do things that other similar software simply can't.

macOS, Streaming, Video Processing, AirPlay, Media

222 points by tiagod 23 days ago | 79 comments

NTS Radio: ad-free, 24/7 radio that plays an eclectic range of music (nts.live)

Music, Radio, Streaming, Entertainment

3 points by thunderbong 29 days ago | 0 comments

Media over QUIC and the Future of High-Quality, Low-Latency Streaming (streamingmedia.com)
Much of today’s internet video content has settled into a dichotomy of delivery methods: the cost-effective but slightly lagging HTTP adaptive streaming and the ultra-responsive but expensive infrastructure of WebRTC-based video- conferencing.

Streaming, Video, WebRTC, Internet, Technology

6 points by zfg 35 days ago | 0 comments

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 40 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 43 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 43 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 46 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 48 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 56 days ago | 14 comments

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

Streaming, Hackers, Conferences

18 points by ruik 56 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 57 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 57 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 72 days ago | 0 comments

PBS Retro (roku.com)

Streaming, Television, Retro, PBS

10 points by bookofjoe 79 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 79 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 81 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 82 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 92 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).