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eBay Inc.
Company blog · ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/techprogrammingbusiness
eBay Inc. is the company blog at ebayinc.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2011, 59 different Hacker News readers have linked it 76 times, most often “WebAssembly at eBay: A Real-World Use Case”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link eBay Inc.'s newsroom and tech blog, mostly as sources for company statements, earnings and press releases, and occasionally for engineering posts on WebAssembly and GUI testing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Information and news about eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY), a global commerce leader that connects millions of buyers and sellers in more than 190 markets around the world.
Most-linked posts?
- WebAssembly at eBay: A Real-World Use Case7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-05-22
- eBay customers’ personal data was compromised in March3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-05-21
- Beam: A Distributed Knowledge Graph Store3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-05-02
- /assets/pdf/fact_sheet/2011_PayPal_DOC.pdf2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-05-27
- Faster E-commerce Search2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-01-19
- Exploring Offline Access to Enhance EBay's Mobile Experience2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-05-10
- EBay to Intermediate Payments on Its Marketplace Platform2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-02-01
What Hacker News says?
Here is the official comment https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-issues-stateme...
Comment linking /stories/news/ebay-inc-issues-statement-regarding-indictments-of-previously-terminated-employees/
on “Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign”Submitted eBay customers’ personal data was compromised in March as a story · 187 points
HN discussionOK, but that's less than half of eBay. This is just a non-serious puff piece and I have no idea why it's being voted up on HN. https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-q4-2018-results/ > In 2018, eBay enabled $95 billion of gross merchandise volume
Comment linking /stories/news/ebay-q4-2018-results/
on “Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon”Submitted EBay Inc. Sells Equity Interest in Craigslist as a story · 100 points
HN discussionAfter reading briefly through the lawsuit[1], it seems that Osama Bedier was working as a senior manager at PayPal creating a product similar to Google Wallet (referred to as a "mobile payment" point of sale). He then interviewed and left for Google (whilst PayPal and Google were in negotiations for a separate business deal), and PayPal claims that he used trade secrets from PayPal to help Google create Wallet. Step…
Comment linking /assets/pdf/fact_sheet/2011_PayPal_DOC.pdf
on “PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet”Submitted EBay Inc. Agrees to Acquire Magento as a story · 82 points
HN discussionRead the lawsuit, it says everything you need to know: http://www.ebayinc.com/assets/pdf/fact_sheet/2011_PayPal_DOC...
Comment linking /assets/pdf/fact_sheet/2011_PayPal_DOC.pdf
on “PayPal sues Google + ex-PayPal VP for Google Wallet”Submitted eBay Lays Off 9% as a story · 29 points
HN discussion>given how tightly the systems remain integrated Ebay is moving away from its tight integration with Paypal and has a deal with a new payment processor (Adyen) after it's current paypal deal ends in 2020. Between that and the fact that they're two public companies with separate freely traded ownership, it's hard for me to buy the argument that the spin off was "just for show". https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/eb…
Comment linking /stories/news/ebay-to-intermediate-payments-on-its-marketplace-platform/
on “Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Suppliers”Submitted Stepping towards a password-free world as a story · 23 points
HN discussionThey didn't know about the breach until about two weeks ago [1], though that doesn't normally excuse that they waited two weeks to go public with the knowledge. One reason to hold back this information is if going public would make their investigation harder OR if going public would increase the security risk (e.g. if the security hole used wasn't yet fixed and going public meant disclosing something about how the h…
Comment linking /in_the_news/story/ebay-inc-ask-ebay-users-change-passwords
on “Hackers raid eBay in historic breach, access 145 million records”Submitted The Expertmaker Accelerator data processing framework as a story · 15 points
HN discussionGoogle has issued a pretty tepid statement to what appears to be a highly problematic situation. In its complaint ( http://www.ebayinc.com/assets/pdf/fact_sheet/2011_PayPal_DOC... ), PayPal alleges in meticulous detail how its chief negotiator over some two years on a major deal with Google for mobile payments on Android brought the deal between the companies to within a hair of signing and then, at the end of the p…
Comment linking /assets/pdf/fact_sheet/2011_PayPal_DOC.pdf
on “Google Responds To PayPal Lawsuit: People Have The Right To Seek Better Jobs”Submitted Faster E-commerce Search as a story · 10 points
HN discussioneBay thinks so: https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/we-are-actively-removin...
Comment linking /stories/news/we-are-actively-removing-price-gouging-prohibited-items-from-ebays-marketplace/
on “Amazon Retools with Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less”Submitted Marko, EBay’s Cutting-Edge UI Tool, Is Open Source and Newly Updated as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWymer will oversee company reputation, external and employee communications, and eBay’s global impact function. Oh boy he sure delivered on that message... https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/steve-wymer-joins-ebay-...
Comment linking /stories/news/steve-wymer-joins-ebay-as-senior-vice-president-and-chief-communications-officer/
on “Couple harassed by eBay execs tell their story for the first time”Submitted eBay's Diversity Report: 42% Women Total, 28% Women Leaders as a story · 6 points
HN discussionA useful first step, since eBay is in California, is to exercise your California "right to know" right to obtain copies of all information eBay has on you.[1] Ebay has a procedure for this, as they are required to.[2][3] It doesn't require a login. That should yield more information. [1] https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa#sectionc [2] https://www.ebayinc.com/company/privacy-center/privacy-notic... [3] https://ocswf…
Comment linking /company/privacy-center/privacy-notice/state-privacy-disclosures/
on “I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended”Submitted Beam: A Distributed Knowledge Graph Store as a story · 5 points
HN discussioneBay's blog post. It's a bar code reader: https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/tech/webassembly-at-eb...
Comment linking /stories/blogs/tech/webassembly-at-ebay-a-real-world-use-case/
on “Replacing JavaScript: How eBay made a web app 50x faster by using WebAssembly”Submitted EBay Builds Own Servers, Intends to Open Source as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMy personal favorites are Ebay Engineering Blog - https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/tech/ And Toptal blog.
Comment linking /stories/blogs/tech/
on “Ask HN: Some good engineering blogs that go through the design process?”Submitted Statement by Pierre Omidyar, eBay Inc. Chairman of the Board as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThey've posted it to their corporate site: http://www.ebayinc.com/in_the_news/story/ebay-inc-ask-ebay-u...
Comment linking /in_the_news/story/ebay-inc-ask-ebay-users-change-passwords
on “EBay Inc. To Ask All eBay Users To Change Passwords”Submitted EBay Helps First Firefox OS Phone Sell Out in U.S., U.K. as a story · 4 points
HN discussionX.com is owned by eBay? It's redirecting to http://www.ebayinc.com/
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on “Ask:HN If x.com is $1.5M then how much x.net should be?”Submitted API Mindset at eBay as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor example, here's a paper from eBay, "GUI Testing Powered by Deep Learning": https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/blogs/tech/gui-testing-power... > ... writing and maintaining test suites and scripts for multiple platforms [TestNG, Selenium, Appium, IOS Driver, Selandroid, etc] take considerable time and effort and come at the risk of reducing the test scope. > Contemporary developments in DL unleashes efficiencies in…
Comment linking /stories/blogs/tech/gui-testing-powered-by-deep-learning/
on “Ask HN: Are you using machine learning to do UI testing?”Submitted WebAssembly at eBay: A Real-World Use Case as a story · 3 points
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