Wow, this guy designed some of the algorithms that informed much of my taste in music. I’ve discovered so many new artists, bands and genres thanks to those daily mixes.<p>There’s something so wrong with this that someone so foundational to the success of the project was allowed to be let go in a mass layoff.
I think it's really representative of how much the audience of hacker news has changed in the last 3 years (negatively), that the original posts about Every Noise got a lot of fanfare, but the news of it's closure gets almost no interest.