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youtube-eng.blogspot.com is the company blog at youtube-eng.blogspot.com, writing about programming, systems and web. Since 2015, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets”. 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 YouTube's official engineering blog for company announcements on platform changes, such as its Flash default, HTTPS migration, and API terms. Commenters cite it as a source for these facts.
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?
- Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-10-08
- VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-06
- YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-27
What Hacker News says?
> Especially on Youtube which still uses Flash by default No since January[1]. Maybe you have an old cookie set or something? [1] http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults...
Comment linking /2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html
on “Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default”Submitted YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video as a story · 1035 points
HN discussionYoutube recently did a writeup on their long road to HTTPS: http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2016/08/youtubes-road-to-htt... I find it particularly telling that switching to HTTPS caused many streaming errors to mysteriously vanish, and I suspect ISP / proxy tampering to be part of the cause. I'd love to know more about what their engineers saw though.
Comment linking /2016/08/youtubes-road-to-https.html
on “Building fast.com”Submitted VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos as a story · 483 points
HN discussionPotentially related: Youtube updated their TOS [1][2] and posted additional documents that developers need to adhere to [3][4]. These take effect February 10, 2017, but were posted in advance on August 11, 2016. HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12409825 [1] https://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/2016/08/an-updated-terms-of... [2] https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-ter... [3] https:…
Comment linking /2016/08/an-updated-terms-of-service-and-new.html
on “Termination of YouTube Service on 2012 BRAVIA TVs”Submitted YouTube's road to HTTPS as a story · 282 points
HN discussionThese are some of the top sites' engineering blogs which I collected over a period of time - I removed those which have already been posted: Google: http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/ http://google-engtools.blogspot.com/ http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/ YouTube: http://youtube-eng.blogspot.com/ Baidu: http://usa.baidu.com/category/baidutechblog/ Yahoo: http://yahooeng.tumblr.com/ http://yahoodevelopers.tumblr.…
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on “GitHub's Engineering Blog”Submitted Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets as a story · 99 points
HN discussionYou're right, it is more complicated than I assumed. I use Chrome/Linux where nearly 100% of videos are served VP9. According to this [0] 61-69% of browsers support VP9, but I cant find a good source as to what percentage of youtube is actually served with VP9. However, in the last year 25,000,000,000 hours of VP9 video have been served on youtube [1]. Maybe this is a minority of web video, but its hardly dead. [0]…
Comment linking /2015/04/vp9-faster-better-buffer-free-youtube.html
on “AMD Launches Carrizo”Submitted Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten years of YouTube video tech in ten videos as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Smoother video in Chrome as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving YouTube video thumbnails with deep neural nets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bye-Bye, YouTube Data API v2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ten years of YouTube video tech in ten videos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Manage Comments with the YouTube Data API v3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Scaling MySQL in the cloud with Vitess and Kubernetes (by YouTube) as a story · 1 points
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