Hacker News: nmacias

New comment by nmacias in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

nmacias — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:12:04 +0000

GOOG-411 was "competing" with a strong company (1-800-FREE411) by serving no ads in a category worth ~$3.5B at the time. It was inexplicable at the time, but they did this to get voice samples, way back when. For reasons like that, I expect that this category of training is baked — but I don't have current domain knowledge fwiw.

New comment by nmacias in "DoorDash Tasks"

nmacias — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:37:08 +0000

So, Quri (2009, now part of Trax), which was the startup copy of Proctor & Gamble's retail intelligence operations. But now like a sponge for any AI budgets not earmarked for hardware.

New comment by nmacias in "Let's talk about animation quality"

nmacias — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 21:13:04 +0000

most audio and video schemes support streaming, in the case of MP3 we are talking about frame-based compression

I guess to restate my curiosity: are things like Animation Pose Compression in Unity or equivalents in other engines remotely as good as audio techniques with hardware support? The main work on this seems to be here and I didn't see any references to audio codecs in the issue history fwiw. https://github.com/nfrechette/acl

New comment by nmacias in "Let's talk about animation quality"

nmacias — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:47:24 +0000

the shoulder rotation plotted at various frequencies sparked for me: is there an "MP3" of character animation data? The way that we have compression optimized for auditory perception… it feels like we might be missing an open standard for compressing this kind of animation data?

edit: Claude is thinking MP3 could work directly: pack 180Hz animation channels into a higher frequency audio signal with some scheme like Frequency Division / Time Division Multiplexing, or Amplitude Modulation. Boom, high compression with commonplace hardware support.

New comment by nmacias in "Differential Transformer"

nmacias — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:39:59 +0000

AdderaLLM was right there

New comment by nmacias in "YouTube's search function is atrocious now [video]"

nmacias — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:06:17 +0000

Has anyone tried to make a Yahoo! Directory vision of YouTube/web video?

This isn’t going to get better on behalf of YT product teams, and Sora et al are going to ratchet up the stakes

New comment by nmacias in "Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England"

nmacias — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:01:43 +0000

Based on the polished rib bone / leatherwork precedent, I am going to presume these were fabric-softening dryer balls.

New comment by nmacias in "United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections"

nmacias — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:23:56 +0000

this site, yikes. In summary, we don’t know what happened yet, but you assume it’s the direct and obvious outcome of ? And that ?

In that’s the game, then, I suspect the Spotify team was onsite to record a behind the scenes at Boeing podcast, and in the process replaced the locking nuts with Joe Rogan stickers.

New comment by nmacias in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)"

nmacias — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 06:53:10 +0000

Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: design, browser-oriented code, GIFs

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ho5lIt8UubFM8HELmqb0I6Ub-Ut...

Email: linked from portfolio (https://rockinghelvetica.com)

I’m a designer with a couple of decades’ worth of practice across the entire space of creating & nurturing digital products. I like fuzzy problems. Pretty good at naming things.

Remote is viable. For initial teams and cofounder-shaped opportunities, I’d prefer to work in-person in SF.

New comment by nmacias in "An inorganic user engine driving ad campaigns on major websites and podcasts"

nmacias — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:52:37 +0000

I get that idealists will be up in arms about user-agent based self-censorship and still feel this way. It’s reversible immediately if it was proven to be harmful.

New comment by nmacias in "An inorganic user engine driving ad campaigns on major websites and podcasts"

nmacias — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:48:34 +0000

I think that Apple should insist that webviews used this way identify themselves via JS as monetization containers, with clear definitions for when and why subject to App Store review. Done.

New comment by nmacias in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)"

nmacias — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 15:30:25 +0000

San Francisco

IGN is hiring in many departments, but here are a few that might particularly interest the HN reader. Shipped in 1996, we're not a startup, but most of that code is gone now, and we're keeping things interesting with work spanning desktop (ign.com), mobile web, iOS, Android, and consoles (Xbox One & PS4 native apps).

I'd never thought of it as a value before joining 4 years ago, but there's a lot of happiness derived from a strong common ground (e.g. a passion for games & entertainment) that's not directly related to roles across the company.

Good hunting.

Lead Software Engineer https://social.icims.com/job/Lead-Software-Engineer-Job-US-C...

Product Manager - Video https://social.icims.com/job/Product-Manager-Video-Job-US-CA...

Product Manager - Advertising/Monetization https://social.icims.com/job/Advertising-Product-Manager-Job...

Frontend Software Engineer https://social.icims.com/job/Front-End-Software-Engineer-Job...

Infrastructure Engineer https://social.icims.com/job/Infrastructure-Engineer-Job-US-...