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Mux Blog
Company blog · mux.com/blogprogrammingwebsystems
Mux Blog is the company blog at mux.com, writing about programming, web and systems. Since 2016, 82 different Hacker News readers have linked it 260 times, most often “Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly cite mux.com blog posts as sources on video streaming: buffering and watch time, LL-HLS, multi-CDN delivery, and viewer tolerance of video quality. Most mentions are job posts or product references.
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.
Mux helps teams ship high-performance and cost-effective video in minutes, not months. Build better video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows.
Most-linked posts?
- /9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2017-02-17
- Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2017-01-02
- Everything I wish I knew before moving 50k LOC to React Server Components5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-08-03
- Your browser and my browser see different colors3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-08-13
- Mux Video: Manipulate Videos via URLs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-11-14
- Scaling data processing with an embedded key-value store3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-07
- If someone can watch it, they can steal it: securing video content on the web3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-03
- /jobs2 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2019-05-01
- Triggering Video Playback with Bots and Crawlers2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-06-27
- Different browsers see different colors2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-29
What Hacker News says?
I'm actually working on a blog post on the state of streaming live from a browser! WebRTC is...a bit of a monster, especially if you want to broadcast one-to-many. I've been hacking around with using the MediaRecorder API and piping that through WebSockets to a server that publishes via RTMP. It's definitely rough, and browsers de-prioritizing requestAnimationFrame callbacks when the tab isn't in focus kills things,…
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on “OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming”Submitted You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation as a story · 834 points
HN discussionMux | Various engineering | Full-time | Onsite | San Francisco, CA At Mux, we’re building the future of online video infrastructure. Think "Stripe for video" and a real-time analytics dashboard used by Fox while streaming the Super Bowl. You’ll be joining an amazing team from places like Google/YouTube, Twitch and Brightcove. Our founders previously started (and sold) Zencoder, an early leader in cloud video technol…
Comment linking /blog/dylan-jhaveri-why-i-joined-mux/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Different browsers see different colors as a story · 209 points
HN discussionThe Blue Yeti is an okay mic, but is a little pricey for what you get and also buys you into some other stuff you may not want to spend the money on, like a bit of a heavier-weight arm, etc. to be close to one's mouth. It's also a little sensitive for spoken word and while it can sound great in a treated room it's not great for conferences or untrained users due to its habit of picking up a lot of ambient noise thro…
Comment linking /blog/zoom-like-you-mean-it-1/
on “Higher quality audio makes people sound smarter”Submitted Apple’s Low Latency HLS differs from the community-developed solution as a story · 178 points
HN discussionAny sort of delay or buffering can affect you very negatively (see: https://mux.com/blog/buffering-reduces-video-watch-time-by-4... and https://mux.com/blog/rebuffering-the-most-frustrating-and-fr... )especially now that most YouTube users no longer are used to it. Sure, you could do something like you mentioned, but doing this for every single video is not likely to go well. But very clever! And helpful, I'm sure.…
Comment linking /blog/rebuffering-the-most-frustrating-and-frequent-problem-for-video-consumers/
on “YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]”Submitted We improved Tensorflow Serving performance by over 70% as a story · 172 points
HN discussionExactly, reliably streaming video is much more complicated and expensive than given credit for. YouTube being $0 does not actually mean it's free, it just means the creator/publisher isn't paying for it directly in money, but in skimmed traffic. The viewer pays by exchanging personal data on what they watch and are interested in, as well as their time in watching commercials. All of these costs are much higher than…
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on “YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]”Submitted In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000) as a story · 141 points
HN discussion> I was expecting a video streaming CDN so anyone could build a Youtube/Twitch competitor without having to deal with storing, transcoding and (live)streaming video. I vaguely remember AWS offering something like this. Not sure how much money there is in this market but definitely sounds like a great product fit for someone like Cloudflare. There's Cloudflare-stream[1] and also Mux[2] [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/…
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on “Cloudflare TV”Submitted Facebook just updated its relationship status with Web Components as a story · 134 points
HN discussionMux ( https://mux.com ) | San Francisco | Front-End Developer | Full-time | Onsite Mux is building the future of online video infrastructure. Our first product is analytics and monitoring - think “NewRelic for Video”. We’re solving a real need in a fast-growing industry, and customers love our product: we’re monitoring hundreds of millions of video streams for companies like PBS, Funny or Die, IGN, and Wistia, and w…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Submitted The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019 as a story · 134 points
HN discussionPrices appear to be a bit steep, no? What's your experience? https://mux.com/pricing
Comment linking /pricing
on “DIY Video Hosting”Submitted How ClickHouse saved our data (2020) as a story · 128 points
HN discussionMy usecase involves sharing private video with access control for my sports club. For that I use https://mux.com/ which take care of hosting, CDN and all the conversion shenanigans. On top of that I've build a Django app which uses video.js as a player.
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on “DIY Video Hosting”Submitted Show HN: Mux Video, a simple API to powerful video streaming as a story · 124 points
HN discussionMux | All sorts of roles across the organization | SF, London | Full-time | https://mux.com/jobs Just going to drop in the blurb on our jobs page, but the tl;dr is we build cool video infrastructure. Our stack is mostly Elixir, TypeScript (React/Redux), Go. The first product we launched was analytics and performance monitoring - think “NewRelic for Video” - used by major video streaming companies like PBS, Vimeo, CB…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted PHP is the new JavaScript? as a story · 84 points
HN discussionMux (YC W16) | SF, London, REMOTE | Full-Time | Elixir, Golang, TypeScript/React | https://mux.com/jobs Mux is how developers build online video. With Mux Video, developers gain access to a powerful API for video streaming--think Stripe for Video. You don't have to have strong feelings about ffmpeg settings, you just go . And with Mux Data, developers realize incredible insights into how their videos perform from pl…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Discovering Anomalies in Real-Time with Apache Flink as a story · 81 points
HN discussionMux wrote a blog post about this too: https://mux.com/blog/how-we-used-machine-learning-to-predict... Using machine learning to parse text helps, but it's still not a perfect solution.
Comment linking /blog/how-we-used-machine-learning-to-predict-hq-trivia-answers/
on “Show HN: Hacking slot machines with a buttonhole camera and brute-force search”Submitted Why the Creators of Zencoder and Video.js Started Mux as a story · 57 points
HN discussionMux (YC W16) | SF, London, REMOTE (US, CAN, and UK) | Full-Time | Elixir, Golang, TypeScript/React | https://mux.com/jobs Mux is how developers build online video. With Mux Video, developers gain access to a powerful API for video streaming--think Stripe for Video. You don't have to have strong feelings about ffmpeg settings, you just go. And with Mux Data, developers realize incredible insights into how their video…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted How We Used Machine Learning to win at HQ Trivia as a story · 49 points
HN discussionMux (YC W16) | SF, London, REMOTE (US, CAN, and UK) | Full-Time | Elixir, Golang, TypeScript/React | https://mux.com/jobs Mux is how developers build online video. With Mux Video, developers gain access to a powerful API for video streaming--think Stripe for Video. A dev doesn't need to have strong feelings about ffmpeg settings to get started; teams can focus on building your actual product instead of bolting toget…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted React 19 lets you write impossible components as a story · 44 points
HN discussionMux (YC W16) | SF, London, REMOTE (US, CAN, and UK) | Full-Time | Elixir, Golang, TypeScript/React | https://mux.com/jobs Mux is how developers build online video. With Mux Video, developers gain access to a powerful API for video streaming--think Stripe for Video. A dev doesn't need to have strong feelings about ffmpeg settings to get started; teams can focus on building your actual product instead of bolting toget…
Comment linking /jobs
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted Triggering Video Playback with Bots and Crawlers as a story · 42 points
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