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iHeartRadio Tech
Company blog · tech.iheart.comprogrammingsystemsweb
iHeartRadio Tech is the company blog at tech.iheart.com, writing about programming, systems and web. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 44 times, most often “Why Functional Programming? It’s the Composition”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-05-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on music tech, such as mapping songs by genre and mood with deep neural networks, and on functional programming, such as category theory for Scala. No comment judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Functional Programming? It’s the Composition3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-07-10
- Load balancing services using Consul and IPTables2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-19
- Mapping the World of Music Using Machine Learning: Part 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-11
What Hacker News says?
iHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, Mobile, Android, iOS, Data Science, Program Management iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even fast…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Why category theory matters in programming as a story · 129 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, Mobile, Android, iOS, Data Science, Program Management iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even fast…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted Mapping the World of Music Using Machine Learning: Part 1 as a story · 108 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NewYork | Full-Time | OnSite Come work with a fast paced, high energy team helping reshape the future of music streaming and internet radio by solving some large scale problems. We reached our first 20 million users faster than any digital service and our first 80 million faster than any other digital music service. FrontEnd Engineer - React, Flux, Redux, NodeJS - Working on a reactive realtime archite…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Real-Time music recommendations for new users with Amazon SageMaker as a story · 19 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, Mobile, Android, iOS, Data Science, Program Management iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even fast…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Submitted A generative model for music track playlists as a story · 19 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, Mobile, Android, iOS, Data Science, Program Management iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even fast…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted Using Scala in Amazon Lambda for Processing Fastly Logs as a story · 16 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, Mobile, Android, iOS, Data Science, SRE iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even faster than Faceboo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted Targeted Marketing with Collaborative Filtering at iHeartRadio as a story · 9 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, Mobile, Android, iOS, Data Science, SRE iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even faster than Faceboo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Submitted Hack Week iHeartRadio as a story · 9 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Mobile, Program Management iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even faster than Facebook. We are seeking pas…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Reusing iOS code for OS X as a story · 8 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Mobile, Android, iOS, Program Management iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even faster than Facebook. We a…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)”Submitted Why we picked AKKA cluster as our microservice framework as a story · 8 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio/ Tribeca, NYC/ ONSITE In NYC, iHeartRadio is hiring within our Technology and Development team. We have roles open across mobile, front end engineering, and Software Engineers in Test. If you have an interest in technology, music, and want to help innovate streaming music, check us out! For more info on our tech stack and team, stop by our Tech Blog: https://tech.iheart.com/ Job descriptions can be found…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted Adding Content in Real-time at iHeartRadio as a story · 7 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, Mobile, Android, iOS, Data Science, Program Management iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even fast…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Make your service more resilient with Kanaloa – an Akka based lib as a story · 7 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, Mobile, Android, iOS, Data Science, Program Management iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even fast…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)”Submitted Making android applications null pointer and exception free as a story · 6 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, SRE, Data, Spark, EMR, Redshift iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even faster than Facebook. We ar…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted Swagger spec generator for Play applications as a story · 4 points
HN discussioniHeartRadio | NYC | OnSite | Full-Time Scala, React, Node, Data Eng, Python, Mobile, Android, iOS, Data Science, SRE iHeartRadio is the No. 1 all-in-one digital audio service with over 800 million downloads; it reached its first 20 million registered users faster than any digital service in Internet history and reached 80 million users faster than any other radio or digital music service and even faster than Faceboo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted Why Functional Programming? It's the Composition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou may already know this part, but for anyone who doesn't know: vector space models very often use cosine distance to make comparisons, instead of Euclidean distance. In this model, you can visualize your vectors as points on a unit hypersphere, where the distance between two vectors is how far apart they are on the sphere. x+y finds the point between them, x-y finds the point between x and the antipode of y (or, p…
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on “King – man + woman is queen; but why?”Submitted Why Functional Programming? It’s the Composition as a story · 3 points
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