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tech.buzzfeed.com is the company blog at tech.buzzfeed.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2017, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Deploy with Haste: BuzzFeed's story about a faster path to production”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link BuzzFeed's tech blog as examples of what its engineers publish, such as NLP work on trending topics and quiz topic clustering, plus posts on its open-sourced SSO and deployment.
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?
- Deploy with Haste: BuzzFeed's story about a faster path to production4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-05-02
- Checklists: an operational gift4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-05-18
- How We Tagged 14, 000 BuzzFeed Quizzes Using K-Means Clustering2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-27
- Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-08-23
What Hacker News says?
> What does a data scientist do at a company like that? BuzzFeed publishes a few things about that on the tech blog: https://tech.buzzfeed.com/ For example, a few NLP tasks such as identifying trending topics ( https://tech.buzzfeed.com/identifying-trending-topics-for-bu... ) and topic clustering ( https://tech.buzzfeed.com/how-we-tagged-14-000-buzzfeed-quiz... ). I haven't written any posts for the blog (due to tim…
Comment linking /how-we-tagged-14-000-buzzfeed-quizzes-using-k-means-clustering-95fc46bc6daf
on “BuzzFeed to Cut 15% of Its Workforce”Submitted Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO as a story · 166 points
HN discussionHey, there were a few reasons behind this. - ease of migration was a big one, we had 100+ instances of bitly's oauth2_proxy, and were able to seamlessly migrate them to this, without any changes to the services being protected. - ease of deployment was also important. Our solution doesn't have any datastore dependencies, and is stateless, so was straightforward to deploy into our PaaS ( https://tech.buzzfeed.com/dep…
Comment linking /deploy-with-haste-the-story-of-rig-ca9a58b5719a
on “Show HN: BuzzFeed open source SSO”Submitted Deploy with Haste: BuzzFeed's story about a faster path to production as a story · 7 points
HN discussionsso-auth allows you to authenticate against Google once, and then any other requests that come to it can be redirect back to the calling application without first hitting Google. If you registered each new app directly with Google, every time the user visited a new app, they would be redirect to Google to provide permission to the app to log them in, and then be redirected back. This is described in: https://tech.bu…
Comment linking /unleashing-the-a6a1a5da39d6
on “The process of open-sourcing BuzzFeed’s single sign-on experience”Submitted BuzzFeed’s Tech Team Helps Journalists Report on Technology with Authority as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThis is a reminder that account karma on Reddit and Hacker News doesn't really mean anything and doesn't make your posts more valuable, or give it any additional benefit in the algorithms. (I say that as someone with 153k Reddit karma and a user ranked #57 on the HN leaderboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders ) Going truly viral on Reddit/HN is still ultimately random as well, which is why reposting (within r…
Comment linking /how-were-building-superpowers-for-social-publishers-at-buzzfeed-ac24fad5ae11
on “I got 10k post karma on Reddit with (and without) fast.ai”Submitted Continuous Deployments at BuzzFeed as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you like this, Buzzfeed had something similar recently: https://tech.buzzfeed.com/deploy-with-haste-the-story-of-rig...
Comment linking /deploy-with-haste-the-story-of-rig-ca9a58b5719a
on “How Etsy Ships Apps”Submitted Checklists: an operational gift as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons Learned Building Products Powered by Generative AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Made Your AI-Generated Lover with a GAN as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Checklists: an operational gift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Checklists: an operational gift as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted BuzzFeed Scalable Request Handling: An Odyssey (Part 3) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted BuzzFeed Scalable Request Handling: An Odyssey (Part 2) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How We Tagged 14, 000 BuzzFeed Quizzes Using K-Means Clustering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lettuce Evaluate Some Recipe Word Embeddings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What it’s like to interview with BuzzFeed Engineering as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploy with haste: the story of rig – BuzzFeed Tech as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Operational Checklists, why you need one as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploy with haste: the story of rig as a story · 1 points
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