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ericsson.com
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ericsson.com is the company blog at ericsson.com, writing about systems and hardware. Since 2008, 124 different Hacker News readers have linked it 158 times, most often “Inside Erlang – creator Joe Armstrong tells his story”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Ericsson's site for its 5G, mobile network and telecom publications, press releases, and company history pages, usually as sources or examples in telecom discussions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Inside Erlang – creator Joe Armstrong tells his story3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-05
- /en/blog/2020/12/5g-positioning--what-you-need-to-know2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-12-26
- Expired security certificate brings down o2 UK and Softbank JP2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-12-06
- Fighting IMSI catchers: A look at 5G cellular paging privacy2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-16
- Ericsson announces plans to form global alliance with Amazon Web Services2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-02-22
- /en/blog/2024/11/5g-advanced-positioning-in-3gpp-release-182 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-13
- /en/about-us/sustainability-and-corporate-responsibility/technology-for-good/humanitarian-response/ericsson-response2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-03
- Joint communication and sensing in 6G networks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-17
- /careers/blog/career-topics/life-at-ericsson/barryv/ericsson-software-campus-athlone-ireland/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-03-06
- Ericsson to acquire Vonage for USD 6.2B2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-25
What Hacker News says?
I totally agree that there are whole host of reasons for this. One of them I think is plainly a ton of work which was novel and custom in past is now subsumed in base infrastructure of today's world. Despite big tech and other vendor keep pushing of new things lot of people and companies are finding base level acceptable for many tasks which would need custom work in past. So no growing demand custom software for ev…
Comment linking /en/reports-and-papers/mobility-report/dataforecasts/mobile-data-traffic-growth-rate
on “AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms”Submitted O2 outage due to expired Ericsson certificate as a story · 146 points
HN discussion> I've been hearing about these use-cases for blockchain for years now ... and still waiting for actual production use. Preserving the integrity of log files and other records is a very obvious and huge use case. Enterprise products have been on the market for years and have been put into use by companies like Ericsson and Lockheed Martin. https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2014/9/ericsson-a... https://news.…
Comment linking /en/press-releases/2014/9/ericsson-and-guardtime-create-secure-cloud-and-big-data
on ““We already store data. In a database. It works well””Submitted 5G Network end-to-end demonstration by Ericsson as a story · 103 points
HN discussionIt might have been a Diavox( https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/history/products/the-te... ) clone actually, but it was mainly the Cyrillic markings on the back of it...
Comment linking /en/about-us/history/products/the-telephones/diavox-1978
on “Photos from inside a Typhoon class submarine”Submitted Open-source release of IoT app environment Calvin as a story · 48 points
HN discussionIreland (Athlone), ONSITE Senior Engineers (Core Java or JEE, or C++ or Python) ~~~~ We have a number of open positions in Ericsson Athlone for senior and experienced engineers. If you have Core Java or JEE, or C++ or Python, I'd love to hear from you. You can see all the positions here: https://jobs.ericsson.com/search/?q=&locationsearch=Athlone The positions are ONSITE, but if you are not already based here Ericss…
Comment linking /careers/blog/career-topics/life-at-ericsson/barryv/ericsson-software-campus-athlone-ireland/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Submitted Open RAN Explained as a story · 19 points
HN discussionMuch of this is fairly widely known in the telecoms sector, and is "open secrets". The sector is a pretty "closed shop" though, full of trade secrets and "proprietary" things. Underneath it all though, actually it's fairly simple once you get your head around it. If you work closely with an operator, even as a client, you'll see examples of this - the number of people brought to meetings from the vendor, versus from…
Comment linking /en/press-releases/2019/11/orange-opts-for-ericsson-operations-engine-in-managed-services-extension
on “5G: The outsourced elephant in the room”Submitted Ericsson Asks 20 Innovative Thinkers About the Year 2020 (videos) as a story · 13 points
HN discussionEspecially for vehicles this is becoming increasingly harder.[1][2][3] [1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/connected-cars-how-5g-and-iot-... [2]: https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-... [3]: https://www.ericsson.com/en/connected-vehicles
Comment linking /en/connected-vehicles
on “My dishwasher won’t start until I let it update its firmware over the WiFi”Submitted Inside Erlang – creator Joe Armstrong tells his story as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBased on the footnote I'm fairly certain it was Ellemtel, a joint venture between Ericsson and Televerket (the Swedish national telecom before it was privatised), and the project was AXE-N: The AXE-N venture was to be the most expensive industrial project in Sweden after Saab’s JAS fighter. One calculation estimates that it cost Ericsson SEK 10 billion. The project has often been described as a total failure. https:…
Comment linking /en/about-us/history/changing-the-world/big-bang/axe-n
on “Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know (2009) [pdf]”Submitted Expired security certificate brings down o2 UK and Softbank JP as a story · 4 points
HN discussionImplementations for something as "innovative" as this are bound to be spotty early on. Is there even pre-existing infrastructure/services/software support in typical networks for stunts like this or was this something they had to build? Did they need to involve their network infra suppliers? For Turkcell that's fully outsourced to Ericsson; network hardware, services implementation, ops, etc etc; pretty much everyth…
Comment linking /en/press-releases/2016/11/turkcell-selects-ericsson-as-long-term-managed-services-partner
on “Turkish GSM networks currently play a message of the President on any phone call”Submitted Open letter: Fragmented regulation means the EU risks missing out on the AI era as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEricsson | Java/JEE, C++, Python, Scrum Master, Architect, Cloud Engineers | Athlone, Ireland | Full-time | Onsite | Visa (Relocation package) | https://www.ericsson.com We build the next generation of network management, analytics and orchestration solutions for operators around the world. We're one of (if not the) largest software development sites in Ireland. See more about our campus here: https://www.ericsson.c…
Comment linking /careers/blog/career-topics/life-at-ericsson/barryv/ericsson-software-campus-athlone-ireland/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted Joint communication and sensing in 6G networks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, that sort of jerky behavior is symptomatic of bufferbloat. Multiple 4G and 5G devices have now been measured as having up 1.6 seconds of buffering in them. They are terribly bloated. It was my hope that the algorithms we used to fix wifi ( https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-h... ) - where we cut latency under load by 25x and sped up performance with a slow station present by 2.5x - would…
Comment linking /en/ericsson-technology-review/archive/2018/virtual-aqm-for-mobile-networks
on “Intel Exiting 5G Modems”Submitted Ericsson Completes Acquisition of Vonage as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEricsson absolutely still uses Erlang [1] - the vast majority, if not all, of the core Erlang/OTP team are employed by Ericsson, and that team is still very much active and constantly improving the language and runtime. [1] https://www.ericsson.com/en/news/2018/5/erlang-celebrates-20...
Comment linking /en/news/2018/5/erlang-celebrates-20-years-as-open-source
on ““No, we’re telling everyone we are using Java””Submitted Using optical beaming to power a portable 5G base station as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I don't think people really said that about telephone and telegraph A quick Google search will show that they did in fact say these things about the telephone and telegraph > In 1858, People Said the Telegraph Was 'Too Fast for the Truth' https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/in-18... > “The telephone is the instrument of the devil” https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/history/communication/h...
Comment linking /en/about-us/history/communication/how-the-telephone-changed-the-world/the-telephone-is-the-instrument-of-the-devil
on “An account was suspended”Submitted Ericsson Mobility Report – average mobile data usage exceeds 10GB per month [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPretty good points. Starlink can't do 2G/3G/4G/5G with mobile phones on the ground, ~550+ km away, of course. They should probably look into partnering with e.g. Ericsson Response ( https://www.ericsson.com/en/about-us/sustainability-and-corp... ).
Comment linking /en/about-us/sustainability-and-corporate-responsibility/digital-inclusion/humanitarian-response
on “Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing”Submitted The Bakelite Telephone 1931 as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I don't think your comment really engages with my point. I never mentioned Erlang or functional programming [...] Sorry. It was mainly a response to "JSON and XML are only 'wasteful' if you don't count developer time. Once you do, it suddenly makes a lot of sense to "waste" hardware resources. After all, programmers are expensive. Hardware is cheap." And pointing out that it really depends on what languages or typ…
Comment linking /res/docs/2015/ericsson-mobility-report-june-2015.pdf
on “A Badass Way to Connect Programs Together”Submitted Designing for the future: the 5G NR physical layer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy friend made exactly this ( https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2016/5/soundvisio... ) but it ended up not being marketable so they abandoned it and sadly never opensourced the code.
Comment linking /en/press-releases/2016/5/soundvision-wins-ericsson-innovation-awards-2016
on “Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea”Submitted Unikernels meet Network functions virtualization as a story · 3 points
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