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New comment by subpar in "Cursor Camp"

subpar — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:13:06 +0000

firefly! iykyk

New comment by subpar in "Will Claude Code ruin our team?"

subpar — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:06:11 +0000

Being a generalist is less fun when you don't have specialist colleagues around to teach you new things and take over the tasks that require actual experience, training, intuition, etc.

New comment by subpar in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

subpar — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:28:11 +0000

Phaselaw | Support Engineer | Remote (UK) | Full-time

Phaselaw (https://phase.law) is building the AI-native eDiscovery platform for in-house legal and privacy teams. We save teams thousands of hours with tools for document review and redaction. We're seed stage but already working with some of the largest companies in the world and are more than doubling the business every quarter.

We’re looking for a Support Engineer to work with our growing customer base in the UK and Europe. You’ll report to one of our cofounders and work closely with our entire team to ensure our customers are getting the most out of our products. This is a high-ownership, high-impact, high-growth role where you’ll directly shape the future of the business and will have the opportunity to build out how we support our customers going forward. You'll touch every part of the customer lifecycle and have opportunities to grow in both customer-facing and technical directions.

Info/application here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Pear-VC/d9055e8d-b0f5-4c0d-988f-e59... or send a note to hn@phase.law

New comment by subpar in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

subpar — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:19:36 +0000

obligatory https://x.com/lintzston/status/791761626890469377

New comment by subpar in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

subpar — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:30:26 +0000

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-regulations-default...

New comment by subpar in "Free music archive"

subpar — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:40:25 +0000

Awesome! Much of the (non-technical) WFMU team who worked on this ended up landing in product and eng roles later in their careers... and I suspect working on this project was an influential experience for many of them (it certainly was for me). Thanks for your help in making it happen!

New comment by subpar in "Free music archive"

subpar — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:34:05 +0000

The Internet Archive mirrors a subset of the collection here: https://archive.org/details/freemusicarchive

IIRC this is a point in time snapshot from some years back, but likely sanitized of any tracks that may have more restrictive licenses.

New comment by subpar in "Free music archive"

subpar — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:57:26 +0000

I worked on the FMA back in the early days when it was still run out of the WFMU office.

There's some really killer stuff buried in there alongside some solid netlabel output from the teens. It was very actively curated in the beginning but it quickly became hard to find the good stuff and after a couple years of emphasis on promoting royalty-free music for film it kind of drifted away from its original mantra of "It's not just free music; it's good music".

Honestly kind of bummed with where the project landed, presumably sold for peanuts to a for-profit so they can use it for lead gen.

New comment by subpar in "The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018)"

subpar — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 00:06:42 +0000

There’s a fantastic (now out of print) biography of Edwin Armstrong that is worth picking up if you stumble across it: Man of High Fidelity by Lawrence Lessing

New comment by subpar in "Can music make food taste better?"

subpar — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:01:49 +0000

I've always wanted to start a company that does thoughtful sound design for restaurants using some of these research findings. 90% of restaurant sound is just an awful afterthought.

New comment by subpar in "A Surprising Advantage of Vinyl (2011)"

subpar — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:21:37 +0000

The conventional wisdom was that people would choose the loudest station when listening in their cars.

But also, the louder your station is the wider your FM broadcast, so you can really fill out the FCC-allowed +/- 0.15 MHz on either side of your allotted channel.

New comment by subpar in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

subpar — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:29:31 +0000

Important to note here that most large individual contributions are made through a DAF or donor-advised fund, which counts as a public source in the support test. This helps donors maximize their tax incentives and prevents the charity from tipping into private foundation status.

New comment by subpar in "JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records"

subpar — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:36:34 +0000

We're in the early days of building this over at phaselab.co. We've been taking more of a data privacy angle, but the product helps folks operationalize all of their data lifecycle / governance tasks. There are some existing players who work with email/comms, but for internal technical systems & user data most orgs are rolling their own deletion pipelines.

New comment by subpar in "Bioacoustics: Finding the Voices of Other Species"

subpar — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:18:40 +0000

email in profile if you ever want to chat

New comment by subpar in "Bioacoustics: Finding the Voices of Other Species"

subpar — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:17:58 +0000

I think plant emissions are up in the like 40-80khz range? You can get consumer specialty mics that go up into the 50s for sure, but I'm not super well-versed on the capture options in that freq range.

New comment by subpar in "Bioacoustics: Finding the Voices of Other Species"

subpar — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:12:02 +0000

The birders are super ahead of the curve. Check out this Rpi implementation of BirdNet: https://github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi

Some other options for low-cost backyard sound/biodiversity monitoring are:

https://www.openacousticdevices.info/ https://carbonrewild.com/

New comment by subpar in "Bioacoustics: Finding the Voices of Other Species"

subpar — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:42:23 +0000

I spent a couple months last year trying to figure out how to commercialize this tech and never really landed on anything that felt venture scale. There’s lots of cool stuff happening in the research space though, and I remain convinced that it is only because of our natural bias towards vision (it being our most conscious/directed sense) that this technology is slightly behind CV.

If anyone ever wants to start a machine listening company that isn’t focused on speech or music come find me and I’ll share all of my notes/competitive research/etc.

New comment by subpar in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

subpar — Wed, 31 May 2023 18:06:32 +0000

Come for the pricing info (50 million requests costs $12,000). Stay for the argument in the comments about whether or not HN users are deranged.

New comment by subpar in "Supabase Storage v3: Resumable Uploads with support for 50GB files"

subpar — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:38:43 +0000

I was trying to do the same thing (ffmpeg to do file transformations on upload) and couldn't figure it out with Supabase functions. After poking around in the Deno discord for awhile, it seems that ffmpeg.wasm for Deno just isn't much of a thing yet. I was able to get it working with Vercel functions, but it was a total nightmare and the runtime made it a non-starter. I landed where you started: just do it in Lambda!

New comment by subpar in "Anime dating sim that also does your taxes"

subpar — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:25:47 +0000

Not just any art collective, a VC-backed art collective!