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bytes.grubhub.com is the company blog at bytes.grubhub.com, writing about programming and data. Since 2017, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Why Grubhub uses crypto when generating coupon codes at scale”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

32mentions?
10HN people?
2017–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 17 in 2018

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

Why HN links it

Grubhub's engineering blog, linked in a Sqids discussion for a post on why it uses cryptography when generating IDs. The only comment links to it while asking whether the Sqids author checked for patents.

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. Why Grubhub uses crypto when generating coupon codes at scale
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-04-08
  2. Cloud infrastructure at Grubhub
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-07-26
  3. Disabling Safari AutoFill for a single line address input (2019)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-04
  4. How to manage changing requirements for a high availability service
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-27

What Hacker News says?

  1. Interestingly, it seems there might have been independent invention of the same idea[0]. Have you checked for any patents in the space? [0] https://bytes.grubhub.com/why-we-use-crypto-when-generating-...

    Comment linking /why-we-use-crypto-when-generating-coupon-codes-at-scale-44dc737a52c9

    on “Sqids – Generate Short Unique IDs from Numbers”
  2. Submitted Lombok makes Java cool again as a story · 187 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Query2vec: Search query expansion with query embeddings as a story · 81 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Disabling Safari AutoFill for a single line address input (2019) as a story · 26 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Angular Conversion Part 4: What We Couldn’t Automate as a story · 13 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How we build services fast: A look at the Grubhub service framework as a story · 12 points

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  7. Submitted How to manage changing requirements for a high availability service as a story · 12 points

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  8. Submitted Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft: how image recognition APIs stack up as a story · 4 points

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  9. Submitted Why Grubhub uses crypto when generating coupon codes at scale as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted Cloud infrastructure at Grubhub as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Zero Downtime Cloud Infrastructure at Grubhub as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Learn PySpark locally without an AWS cluster as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Cloud infrastructure at Grubhub as a story · 3 points

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  14. Submitted SOA: Traffic Routing and Control – Grubhub Bytes as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted Why Grubhub uses crypto when generating coupon codes at scale as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted How to manage changing requirements for a high availability service as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted Angular is coming: Preparing the upgrade as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted How I Learned to Stop AngularJS and Love the Angular as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Using Functional Programming in Java with a Producer-Consumer as a story · 1 points

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  20. Submitted Optimizing for the Mobile Web: Moving from Angular to Preact as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted Guaranteeing critical microservice actions at Grubhub as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Using redux-loop to make tacos at Grubhub as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted Disabling Safari AutoFill for a single line address input as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted How to stay productive as a remote employee as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Data migration strategies for making a “Seamless” transition as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Scaling ETL: How data pipelines evolve as your business grows as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted Decisions are first class citizens (an intro to decision engineering) as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted How Grubhub automated the conversion of their web app from AngularJS to Angular as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Running premortem analysis – imagining failure to ensure success as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Managing dependencies and artifacts in PySpark as a story · 1 points

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