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Company blog · otto.de/jobs/technology/techblog · on HN as gsteinackerprogrammingdata
OTTO Techblog RSS đź”” is the company blog at otto.de, writing about programming and data. Since 2016, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The feed is OTTO's engineering blog. The comments link to the otto.de retail shop and discuss the company's webshop, jobs and GitHub, not any of its tech blog posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
OTTO Online-Shop » Viele Marken ✓ Tolle Angebote ✓ Top Service » Ratenkauf ✓ Kauf auf Rechnung ✓ Altgeräte-Mitnahme ✓ Aufbauservice ✓ Jetzt shoppen!
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-08-18
What Hacker News says?
I have stopped using Amazon all together >1 year ago. Prime Video is as shitty as it gets and most stuff ordered on Amazon is Chinese shovelware in the same rankings as Temu. I give exactly zero shit about same day delivery in 99,99% of the cases. Amazon shines in customer support though. Search & categorization is entirely broken, the webshop experience is absolutely abysmal. Just order from better online stores. I…
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on “Go European: Discover European products and services”Submitted Learning to Rank with Clojure – how we run our ML pipelines reliably as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere is a notable exception to this role: Germany's e-commerce giant Otto [1] has transitioned from order by catalogue to webstore pretty well and they are doing some nice things techwise. Maybe exception to the rule but definitely an example of not being stuck in the past and it's a LARGE corporation. [1] https://www.otto.de/
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on “Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS”- dhaitz · 2024-10-01
Submitted Developer Hacks – Modern Command Line Tools and Advanced Git Commands as a story · 2 points
HN discussion Regarding the battery meter — Casio just updated much of the classic g-shock line with the 5xxxU versions. They have many much requested features including a battery indicator. Example: https://www.otto.de/p/casio-g-shock-funk-multifunktionsuhr-g...
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on “More Casio Watch Mods”Submitted Data Mapping DSL with Scala Parser Combinators as a story · 2 points
HN discussion- TheLML · 2016-08-18
Otto [1] is the world largest mail order company[2], so not really a good name to pick anyway [1] https://www.otto.de/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_GmbH
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on “Otto joins Uber” Submitted Scaling Agile Otto as a story · 1 points
HN discussion- morsch · 2022-08-26
No, these are much larger fridges. https://www.otto.de/p/samsung-kuehl-gefrierkombination-bespo... 273l fridge plus 114l freezer, modeled power draw 134kWh. This is a premium product, a less expensive model (similar capacity) takes 166kWh. https://www.otto.de/p/samsung-kuehl-gefrierkombination-rl36t...
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on “German digital signage ban prompts confusion” Literally the first result on the site I checked [0], solid wood table on sale for 339 €. Do you want to move the goalposts even further? [0]: https://www.otto.de/p/gozos-esstisch-scots-pine-series-essti...
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on “I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals”As a German the self driving company Otto is really confusing. It doesn't only have the same name but also almost exactly the same logo as Otto, the decades old and second largest online retailer in Germany: https://www.otto.de/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_(company)
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on “Has Uber killed off its self-driving trucks?”I checked out the profile by their main software architect Guido Steinacker [1], their job offerings on otto.de [2], their github (they have repos for classic Java EE patterns, like their Wicket component tester and HAL stuff, which is a default in spring data) [3], and their stepstone, which mostly shows spring and java jobs [4]. There is no single asp.net job listed and they also don’t have anything asp.net relate…
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on “Ask HN: What companies are embracing “HTML over the wire”?”