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Company blog · pex.com/blogdataai
Pex is the company blog at pex.com, writing about data and ai. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 107 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-26, and you can follow it by feed.
107mentions?
7HN people?
2017–2025first – last linked?
Too few sampled comments (23) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked mostly in 'Who is hiring' job posts for Pex, a digital rights company with content recognition and licensing technology. A few comments mention it as a similar service or a former employer.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 23 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The most advanced Music Recognition Technology (MRT) for fraud prevention, commercial licensing, black box royalties, and AI song detection.
Most-linked posts?
What Hacker News says?
We [0] index YouTube actively and see way over 5.5B videos [1] at this point. We catch a lot of unlisted videos and we did try to figure out how is that possible in the past. It seems that a lot of users will upload video which is by default published with the default settings and thus is visible from the outside. Even if they change the settings fairly quickly, automated systems like ours will already know about th…
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on “YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views”Submitted Reading is good. Reading in order to discuss is better as a story · 38 points
HN discussionWe built service [0] to cover the Copyright Infringement and other forms including CSAM and IBSA. While in US DMCA is enough, EU has new law [1] that goes way beyond the requirements of the previous law (E-commerce Directive, which is analogous to the DMCA). [0] https://pex.com [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_on_Copyright_in_the_...
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on “You either die an MVP or live long enough to build content moderation”Submitted Counting distinct values across rolling windows in BigQuery using HyperLogLog++ as a story · 12 points
HN discussionPex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME |Salary $100k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is a search engine for music and video, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search just for video/music with some more features built at top of the technology). To the moment we've indexed more than 5.6B videos with daily addition of ~60M. We operate a massive stack ( h…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted MFCCs: Engineering Features from Sound as a story · 9 points
HN discussionYou are right. This bill is a disaster for smaller platforms. My company [0] built business around Content ID-like technology, so we should be celebrating, but we don't. We are going to announce, that our services will be provided to all impacted platforms free of charge. We are hoping to facilitate licensing deal between rights holders and the platforms, preferably on pay-per-play basis, instead of completely block…
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on “European parliament committee approves vote on ‘disastrous’ copyright bill”Submitted Building Attribution Engine: How R&D fuels our groundbreaking products as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPex | DTLA, Los Angeles, CA | Full-time | ONSITE | https://pex.com We're building video and music search engine used by the majors in both movie and music industry. We're running a massive stack of servers processing over 70PB of data each month, with existing index with over 5B videos and songs. We're hiring developers across the board. We're based in the Perching square right on the metro stop, easy access from mo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Why YouTube’s copyright lawsuit redefines safe harbor eligibility for platforms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME |Salary $100k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is a search engine for music and video, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search just for video/music with some more features built at top of the technology). To date we've indexed more than 6.3B videos with daily addition of ~60M. We operate a massive stack ( https:/…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Which Grammy winners fared best on social media? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionDisclaimer: I'm biased as I built business around similar regulations [0]. Here is my take on the situation and the most likely outcome. European Court of Justice just cleared similar law in Europe and give it a final stamp of validity [1]. Similarly like GDPR, this law will take precedent in most settings because it applies earlier in the life of content than the current US law, DMCA [2]. What I mean by that, Artic…
on “Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act””Submitted Real or fake: Identifying AI-generated music and voices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is a audio-visual search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale, which was captured in a recent post published by the Google Cloud team (it's not very technical) https://cloud.google.com/customers/pex/ We're looking for…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Pex | Multiple positions | REMOTE (US and EU), FULL-TIME | https://angel.co/pexeso/jobs Pex is building VISA for digital rights. Our Attribution Engine ( https://pex.com/attribution-engine.html ) is being deployed on most of the UGC platforms enabling any creator to be paid for their content, and be able to freely mix and remix already copyrighted content without worrying about takedowns. We're looking for senior en…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $100k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is a video & music search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search just for audiovisual content, with some more features built at top of the technology). To date we've indexed more than 8B videos with a daily addition of ~25M. We operate a massive stack ( htt…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE & REMOTE, FULL-TIME | Salary $100k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is a search engine for music and video, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search just for video/music, with some more features built at top of the technology). To date we've indexed more than 7B videos with daily addition of ~60M. We operate a massive stack…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is a audio-visual search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale, which was captured in a recent post published by the Google Cloud team (it's not very technical) https://cloud.google.com/customers/pex/ We're looking for…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://pex.com Pex is a search engine for music and video, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search just for video/music with some more features built at top of the technology). To the moment we've indexed more than 5.6B videos with daily addition of ~60M. We operate a massive stack ( https://news.ycombinator.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Pex | Senior JavaScript Engineer | Downtown, Los Angeles | REMOTE or ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is an audio-visual reverse search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale with some fun stack ( https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/22/video-search... ). We're looking for senior front-end devel…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Pex | Senior JavaScript Engineer | Downtown, Los Angeles | REMOTE or ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is an audio-visual reverse search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale with some fun stack ( https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/22/video-search... ). We're looking for senior engineers for position…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $100k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is a search engine for music and video, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search just for video/music, with some more features built at top of the technology). To date we've indexed more than 7B videos with a daily addition of ~60M. We operate a massive stack ( https…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is an audio-visual reverse search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale with some fun stack ( https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/22/video-search... ). We're looking for skilled senior developers (C/C++, Go, Ja…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”Pex | Multiple positions | REMOTE (US and EU), FULL-TIME | https://jobs.lever.co/pex Pex is building VISA for digital rights. Our Attribution Engine is being deployed on most of the UGC platforms enabling any creator to be paid for their content, and be able to freely mix and remix already copyrighted content without worrying about takedowns. We're looking for senior engineers for positions listed bellow: - Front-En…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is an audio-visual search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale ( https://cloud.google.com/customers/pex/ & https://www.citusdata.com/customers/pex ) We're looking for skilled senior developers (C/C++, Go, Java), machin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is an audio-visual reverse search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale with some fun stack ( https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/22/video-search... ). We're looking for skilled senior developers (C/C++, Go, Ja…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Pex | Multiple positions | REMOTE (United States, Canada, and Europe), FULL-TIME | https://pex.com/careers/ Pex is on a mission to democratize digital rights for everyone. We are the team behind the Attribution Engine, a licensing infrastructure for the Internet enabling fair compensation and increased access to content. With its advanced identification technology, Attribution Engine ensures compliance and safety fo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”Pex | Multiple positions | REMOTE (US and EU), FULL-TIME | https://jobs.lever.co/pex Pex is building VISA for digital rights. Our Attribution Engine ( https://pex.com/attribution-engine.html ) is being deployed on most of the UGC platforms enabling any creator to be paid for their content, and be able to freely mix and remix already copyrighted content without worrying about takedowns. We're looking for senior engin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Pex | Multiple Positions | Downtown, Los Angeles | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ & Equity | https://pex.com Pex is an audio-visual reverse search engine, that uses the content as a base for its search (think of Google Image Search). We operate at a pretty large scale with some fun stack ( https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/06/22/video-search... ). We're looking for skilled senior developers (C/C++, Go, Ja…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)”