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Show HN: What people watched on Netflix since 2023

why_only_15 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:13:38 +0000

Netflix makes reports since 2023 showing how much engagement everything in their catalog gets. This joins together all those into one report.

Most surprising to me: 1. What a mega-hit KPop Demon Hunters was. The #2-5 ranked movies got ~500M hours viewed each, KPop Demon Hunters got 1081M. 2. How big old content is. Suits from 2011 is the #2 show on Netflix. Grey's Anatomy starting in 2005 is #3. Gilmore Girls from 2000 #4. 3. The "scale effect" where releasing a new season of a show engenders massive viewing of previous seasons. Stranger Things season 5 got 880M hours of viewing in H2 2025 when it released. But it caused 1200M additional hours of viewing of seasons 1-4. 4. Massive popularity of movies I had never heard of. Leave the World Behind, a movie I had never heard of, was the #2 movie of the last three years. It got ~100 minutes of watchtime per Netflix subscriber. Of the top 10 movies I had only heard of 3.

This was vibe-coded, so could be incorrect, especially in details. I think the overall results of the report are correct in terms of # of hours watched since 2023, though. Reproduction script: girl.surgery/netflix_engagement/reproduce.py.

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New comment by why_only_15 in "Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576"

why_only_15 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:28:32 +0000

To what degree can you say something like "if the kernel doesn't have metaprogramming [or some other set of features] it's fine". When were the last bugs with a reduced feature set?

New comment by why_only_15 in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

why_only_15 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:45:16 +0000

The whole point is that these are security bugs that didn't necessarily bother people so far but could be exploited

New comment by why_only_15 in "How AST-grep Rewrote Tree-sitter in Rust and Made It 30% Faster"

why_only_15 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:24:29 +0000

I really don't like this. Don't post your AI-generated articles here. https://www.pangram.com/history/fce67fb4-4f6a-4eb4-a323-5048...

New comment by why_only_15 in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

why_only_15 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:27:45 +0000

The correct comparison is not sonnet, but qwen3.5-27b on a cloud. Alibaba's pricing [0] is $0.20/m input $1.56/m output, so $0.72 for the prompt processing or $0.22 for the generation. Yours is still cheaper but the margins are less.

My guess is that this math gets less good with MoE (because you will be limited by VRAM, but clouds won't).

[0]: https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.5-27b

New comment by why_only_15 in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

why_only_15 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:20:15 +0000

Why is the post AI-generated? If you're going to make something for us to read you pay us the courtesy of actually writing it first.

https://www.pangram.com/history/61fbc90e-180d-4d91-a85d-16ff...

New comment by why_only_15 in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

why_only_15 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:15:59 +0000

The post itself is totally AI-generated. It has tons of tells, in addition to Pangram saying so.

https://www.pangram.com/history/61fbc90e-180d-4d91-a85d-16ff...

New comment by why_only_15 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

why_only_15 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:27:50 +0000

why do you think so? they provide some evidence of this in the article, but there have been several improvements in e.g. nanogpt-speedrun or openai parameter golf made by AIs

New comment by why_only_15 in "Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?"

why_only_15 — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:57:21 +0000

Does China subsidize housing construction? Is your claim something like "China encourages/forces consumers to save at high rates which lowers interest rates and makes there be more construction"?

New comment by why_only_15 in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

why_only_15 — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:39:28 +0000

what's the origin of your $20k/vuln estimate?

New comment by why_only_15 in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

why_only_15 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:08:30 +0000

The formal Ottoman name was Kostantiniyye=Constantinople until the empire's fall in 1922. The official shift happened in 1930, with the Turkish Postal Services Law changing the name to Istanbul.

New comment by why_only_15 in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"

why_only_15 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:40:42 +0000

This is a quite old technique. The idea, as I understood it, was that lots of data at Google was stored in triplicate for reliability purposes. Instead of fetching one, you fetched all three and then took the one that arrived first. Then you sent UDP packets cancelling the other two. For something like search where you're issuing hundreds of requests that have to resolve in a few hundred milliseconds, this substantially cut down on tail latency.

New comment by why_only_15 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

why_only_15 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:07:05 +0000

I am in this world, but am not familiar with this specifically.

My guess is that they found a bug with their implementation of the model using the weights Google released. These bugs are often difficult to track down because the only indication is that the model is worse with your implementation than with someone else's.

New comment by why_only_15 in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

why_only_15 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:02:34 +0000

The point is that if DoD's supply chain restriction does what Hegseth seems to want, all contractors involved with Anthropic would have to divest. That includes Amazon and Google, who are both DoD contractors who provide massive quantities of capital and compute to Anthropic. It's irrelevant that Anthropic provides Claude through Palantir.

New comment by why_only_15 in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

why_only_15 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:53:02 +0000

This is not really possible. My guess is that the government is not willing to spend the necessary quantity of money to get e.g. Amazon or Google to divest of Anthropic and stop providing them computing resources.

New comment by why_only_15 in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

why_only_15 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:48:01 +0000

The point of the supply chain risk designation was not just to have the DoD stop using Anthropic (they could have done that by just cancelling the contract). Their intended effect was to force every company that sells to the US government, no matter how indirectly, to not use Anthropic in any way, which would effectively destroy them because almost every company is in the supply chain (for example my company is https://calaveras.ai/ because we sell to AI companies who in turn sell to DoD).

New comment by why_only_15 in "Bucketsquatting is (finally) dead"

why_only_15 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:19:00 +0000

if your bucket name is ever exposed and you later delete it, then this doesn't help you.

New comment by why_only_15 in "Why Technology Makes Us More Productive but Not Richer"

why_only_15 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:46:52 +0000

Why did you post an AI generated article (against HN rules)? https://www.pangram.com/history/0943da35-d51a-4d81-8207-fae7...

New comment by why_only_15 in "Why Technology Makes Us More Productive but Not Richer"

why_only_15 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:45:58 +0000

This seems like a really poorly thought out article. You should take more care on making sure your understanding is correct before publishing in the future.

Taking the Amazon example in Part 2:

For e-books (simpler), Amazon gets 30% for running the store, doing advertising, etc. and then authors get 70% [1].

For print books, I'm a little less clear but it appears Amazon buys the books for roughly 50% of list[2] which for Hachette in 2025 is $26.50 so Amazon pays $13.25 to the publisher and then Amazon retails the book for $14.84. So for $100 of books sold on Amazon, $89 goes to the publisher and $11 goes to Amazon. It appears that the cost to produce these books is maybe $2/book (though I'm very unsure on this, this is a guesstimate from public data) and then the rest flows back to authors, advances, etc.

Amazon.com (not AWS) has a 7% profit margin in North America (FY25), so of that $11 they get in revenue they get $0.77 in operating profit.

Ok and this also annoyed me: you say $1.7T/y is $10.5k/worker, which is accurate. but then you say for the average household it's $26k/y. This is not true. There are 134m households in the US [3] so it's $12.6k/y for the average household. Maybe you meant something else like the median household but it seems more likely you just said ~2.6 people/household and multiplied the number of people/household by cost/worker. This is obviously wrong and you should have caught errors like that earlier.

[1]: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200644210 [2]: https://www.readersfirst.org/publisher-price-watch [3]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TTLHH

New comment by why_only_15 in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

why_only_15 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:33:24 +0000

Very cool stuff! Thank you for making.