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Show HN: What people watched on Netflix since 2023

Hacker News - Mon, 08/03/2026 - 9:13am

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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Benford's Law of First Digits

Hacker News - Mon, 08/03/2026 - 9:10am
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River Bank Says Hackers Deleted Data Stolen in Ransomware Attack

Security Week - Mon, 08/03/2026 - 9:02am

The bank holding company was hacked in June, but the investigation into the incident continues.

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Horizon3 Raises $250 Million to Fund Continuing Growth

Security Week - Mon, 08/03/2026 - 9:00am

Venture financing has become an essential factor in growing new business in today’s fast moving economy. Horizon3’s latest funding explains how and why.

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'AI's Decimation of Call Center Jobs Has Begun'

SlashDot - Mon, 08/03/2026 - 8:36am
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N‑able Patches Vulnerability Exploited to Hack N-central Servers

Security Week - Mon, 08/03/2026 - 8:34am

The N‑central vulnerability CVE-2026-18577 has been exploited in the wild after threat actors found a patch bypass.

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Show HN: Runthru – open-source Interactive Demos

Hacker News - Mon, 08/03/2026 - 8:23am

I was looking for a tool to create interactive demos / walkthroughs for web based software. I was amazed that many companies charge well over $1000 per month for something pretty basic.

I made this which so far works well for me. You can point it at a site and either let AI (byo OpenAI or Anthropic keys) record and polish the whole thing or do it manually yourself (or a mixture of both).

Here is an example interactive demo:

https://runnit.io/demos/i-want-you-to-create-a-demo-of-from-...

Disclaimer: This is a tool which works for me and may work for you, it's not production grade software, use at your own risk. Extend it, fork it, sell it, it's up to you.

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Augmenting Long-Term Memory

Hacker News - Mon, 08/03/2026 - 8:22am
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