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tech.hulu.com is the company blog at tech.hulu.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2011, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Hulu’s Recommendation System”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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18mentions?
13HN people?
2011–2016first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2013

Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Hulu's tech blog for its engineering write-ups on MapReduce, recommender systems, the RestfulGit API and a face match system.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Hulu’s Recommendation System
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-09-22

What Hacker News says?

  1. Here you go, I wrote this a little while ago: http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2014/04/10/beaconspec/ The first part covers MapReduce, the rest you can skip.

    Comment linking /blog/2014/04/10/beaconspec/

    on “Map Reduce: A simple introduction (2010)”
  2. Submitted Python and Hulu as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  3. Here are a few more applied papers/articles: + Hulu: http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2011/09/19/recommendation-system/ + Amazon: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~samir/498/Amazon-Recommendations.pdf + Spotify: http://www.slideshare.net/erikbern/collaborative-filtering-a...

    Comment linking /blog/2011/09/19/recommendation-system/

    on “Ask HN: Where can I learn how to build a recommender system?”
  4. Submitted Dominate Dragons with Git as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  5. Yeah -- it's a side project I built and deployed internally that's gotten usage in a variety of scenarios (Git tools, deployment processes, etc.). There's some more info on our blog at http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2013/09/09/restfulgit-an-open-sour... .

    Comment linking /blog/2013/09/09/restfulgit-an-open-source-web-service-for-accessing-git-data/

    on “Show HN: RestfulGit – Open-source restful API for accessing Git data”
  6. Submitted Automating System Provisioning and Application Deployment With Chef (2012) as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. A series of introduction to the face match system. More details about each component in the system: http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2014/05/03/face-match-system-face-... http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2014/05/03/face-match-system-shot-... http://tech.hulu.com/blog/2014/05/04/face-match-system-clust...

    Comment linking /blog/2014/05/04/face-match-system-clustering-recognition-and-summary/

    on “Introduction to face match system in Hulu”
  8. Submitted Dominate Dragons with Git as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Hulu’s Recommendation System as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Hulu's BeaconSpec: A domain-specific language for generating MapReduce jobs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Hulu iPad app redesign: lessons and code as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Hulu's open source statsd / metricsd aggregator as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Hulu’s Recommendation System(2011) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Creating Hulu VR as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Introduction to face match system in Hulu as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted GSAutomation — an open-source iOS test library as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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