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Last.fm
Company blog · blog.last.fmprogrammingbusiness
Last.fm is the company blog at blog.last.fm, writing about programming and business. Since 2007, 36 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription”. The last post was in 2014, but the archive is still widely read.
Most-linked posts?
- Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-03-24
- Last.fm Blog: Quality Control4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2008-08-01
- Mapreduce Bash Script4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-04-06
- Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2009-02-23
- Last.fm Blog: Library and streaming services outage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-07-18
What Hacker News says?
http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit Perfect example.
Comment linking /2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit
on “Ron Conway Drops A Nuclear Bomb On The Super Angels”Submitted Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit" as a story · 413 points
HN discussionThis may be of interest to you, http://blog.last.fm/2009/04/06/mapreduce-bash-script
Comment linking /2009/04/06/mapreduce-bash-script
on “Unix Commands I Abuse Every Day”Submitted Last.fm founders quit as a story · 139 points
HN discussionLast.fm has (or had) something similar and quite sexy as well: http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/01/quality-control
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on “The Panic Status Board”Submitted Last.fm Blog: Quality Control as a story · 85 points
HN discussionhttp://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement "In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month."
Comment linking /2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement
on “43M passwords hacked in Last.fm breach”Submitted SSD Streaming at Last.fm as a story · 79 points
HN discussion- nl · 2011-09-08
They published a story they got from a source, which turned out to be (mostly) wrong. References: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/20/did-lastfm-just-hand-ov... http://blog.last.fm/2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/22/deny-this-lastfm/ I don't see how that is Arrington's " need to interject himself into the stories "
Comment linking /2009/02/23/techcrunch-are-full-of-shit
on “Arrington out at AOL (for real this time)” Submitted Python + Hadoop = Dumbo as a story · 73 points
HN discussionYou're missing living in (or proxying to) the UK, US or Germany, where it's still free. http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement
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on “Spotify vs the US Competition”Submitted Mapreduce Bash Script as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSince the originally submitted link was deleted from last.fm's forums, here's the replacement, and a link to their blog: http://blog.last.fm/2011/07/18/library-and-streaming-service... http://www.last.fm/forum/21713/_/756231
Comment linking /2011/07/18/library-and-streaming-services-outage
on “Last.fm web site primary and failover down”Submitted Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription as a story · 44 points
HN discussionlast.fm has some cool systems as well: http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/01/quality-control i especially like the build status bears :)
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on “Panic-inspired: Round up of business dashboards”Submitted Last.fm makes music free to listen to as a story · 27 points
HN discussionIt's the former, sort of... See the comment on the post titled "Joost, HodgeStar, et al": (I can't find a permalink) " These are the countries in which we have the most resources to support an ad sales organization, which is how we earn money to pay artists and labels for their music. " Edit: Found the permalink: http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement#c00...
Comment linking /2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement
on “Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription”Submitted Last.fm launches crowdsourcing experiment for tempo (BPM) detection as a story · 26 points
HN discussion"last.fm is still 100% free." Except in other countries than the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement
Comment linking /2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement
on “Pandora: From near-death to profitability in a year”Submitted Last.fm Xbox Launch War Room as a story · 23 points
HN discussionA good list of hadoop alternatives: http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-promising-open-source-alt... my personal favorite is BashReduce (~120 lines shell script vs ~600k lines of java code in hadoop): http://blog.last.fm/2009/04/06/mapreduce-bash-script If you're in bioinformatics you might be interested in this talk on handling ridiculous amounts of data (PyCon 2011): http://blip.tv/pycon-us-videos-2009-2010-2011/py…
Comment linking /2009/04/06/mapreduce-bash-script
on “Democratizing Big Data - Is Hadoop Our Only Hope?”Submitted Mining Valentine's Day listening trends as a story · 14 points
HN discussionFun, but I think I still prefer the angry red test failure bear: http://blog.last.fm/2008/08/01/quality-control
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on “The Git Bell: post-commit → ruby → arduino → bell”Submitted Hadoop User Group UK as a story · 8 points
HN discussionthe original article: http://blog.last.fm/2009/04/06/mapreduce-bash-script
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on “Bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce”Submitted Lyric clouds, genre maps and distinctive words as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI have some suggestions. Now, I'm a bit of an audiophile and also I'm willing to deal with amounts of jank that others find intolerable. YMMV. I use Deezer as a music service. It's $15/month for HiFi comparable to Tidal's HiFi subscription. Tidal, however, has DRM that does not allow it to play on Linux as a webapp nor does it have a Linux desktop app. Tidal's out. Now, here's the interesting thing: I never use Deez…
Comment linking /2012/01/06/scrobble-with-deezer
on “Ask HN: Why is Spotify playing so many covers?”Submitted Last.fm radio subscriptions as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSome more info: This is from Last.fm developers, esp. RJ (Richard Jones), mxcl (Max Howell; the guy behind Homebrew) and others. The current source is written in Erlang. https://github.com/RJ/playdar-core There is some old abandoned source written in C++: https://github.com/RJ/playdar I found this while searching for the Boffin source code. Something about Boffin: * http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/11/introducing-boffin-…
Comment linking /2009/03/11/introducing-boffin-lastfms-music-knowledge-meets-your-mp3-collection
on “Playdar - music content resolver service”Submitted Last.fm launches Android player as a story · 6 points
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