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subparon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

Phaselaw | Product Engineer | Remote (US) or Hybrid (NYC) | 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 Product Engineer to build across the stack, with strong product sense and experience building usable, joyful, and performant frontends. You’ll report to the CTO and closely with our entire team. This is a high-ownership, high-impact, early-stage role where you’ll directly shape the future of the business.

Info/application here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Pear-VC/361caae7-d798-4603-b428-4ca... or send a note to hn@phase.law

subparon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

Phaselaw | Product Engineer | Remote (US) | 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 Product Engineer to build across the stack, with strong product sense and experience building usable, joyful, and performant frontends. You’ll report to the CTO and closely with our entire team. This is a high-ownership, high-impact, early-stage role where you’ll directly shape the future of the business.

Info/application here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Pear-VC/361caae7-d798-4603-b428-4ca...... or send a note to hn@phase.law

subparon Cursor Camp

firefly! iykyk

subparon Will Claude Code ruin our team?

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.

subparon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)

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

subparon AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

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

subparon What's happening inside the NIH and NSF

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

subparon Free music archive

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!

subparon Free music archive

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.

subparon Free music archive

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.

subparon The Beginnings of FM Radio Broadcasting (2018)

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

subparon Can music make food taste better?

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.

subparon A Surprising Advantage of Vinyl (2011)

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.

subparon We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

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.

subparon JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records

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.

subparon Bioacoustics: Finding the Voices of Other Species

email in profile if you ever want to chat

subparon Bioacoustics: Finding the Voices of Other Species

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.

subparon Bioacoustics: Finding the Voices of Other Species

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/

subparon Bioacoustics: Finding the Voices of Other Species

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.

subparon Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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.

subparon Supabase Storage v3: Resumable Uploads with support for 50GB files

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!

subparon Anime dating sim that also does your taxes

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

subparon How to date a recording using background electrical noise

If this is interesting to you or your kids, here's a less detailed but pretty accessible video [1] explaining how mains hum forensics work, complete with British accent.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY

subparon Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

https://gif.so

Every subdomain gets its own gif, so you can query by url (i.e. https://hackernews.gif.so). Anyone can change the image that loads on a given page... one day I'll make it a voting system. Useful for quickly putting a gif of an arbitrary thing in chat apps as most will unfurl the image directly. If you just want a static image, use https://jpg.so instead.

Someone else made this years ago and hosted it at jpg.to. That went down a while ago and I recreated it because it is fun and sometimes useful and not owned by Meta.

subparon Turn the radio volume down for adverts and DJs talking

Here's a great post from a post-production audio mixer explaining the many convoluted steps that go into delivering a final mix with correct loudness specs to end users. tldr, there's a lot of room for error.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AudioPost/comments/y2m1u0/comment/i...

subparon Ask HN: Is there a cloud music library that doesn't keep deleting my music?

I toss everything on the NAS and interface via Swinsian [1]. Bought a license many years ago and haven't looked back. Closest thing to "old itunes" UI and rock solid, low-latency playback and browsing across a large library over the network.

[1] https://swinsian.com/

subparon I am endlessly fascinated with content tagging systems

I've done this professionally in a couple different settings, from building topic classifiers for news events (it is sometimes hard to know when one news event should stop and another start) to creating tagging systems for audio recordings of group conversations (where topics often merge in and out of each other, often within a single sentence).

I'm currently working on classifying non-speech, non-musical sound and it can be useful to piggyback on an existing knowledge system, though they tend to be industry-specific. As an example, Google's ontology for sound identification [1] is a nice starting point for general classification, whereas the taxonomy [2] used by the audio post-production industry (sound effects, foley, etc) is structurally quite different (which isn't surprising, but it sure is fun!). From a totally different field (electro-acoustic composition), the work of Michel Chion and Pierre Schaeffer [3] add psychoacoustic elements to more traditional measurable characteristics, i.e. how the sound is perceived and comprehended is just as important as its medium of travel and its source. It is helpful to see what others have done before you so you can pick and choose elements of their work to incorporate into your own.

1: https://github.com/audioset/ontology

2: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b2UhKpcOAE-jd1edOsxC...

3: [big pdf!] https://monoskop.org/images/0/01/Chion_Michel_Guide_To_Sound...

subparon Find a good available .com domain

using zomba* domains as an example is a real missed opportunity to feature zombo.com

subparon Short URLs: Why and How

https://dvd.qa/horse checking in!

subparon Elementary Audio: a modern platform for writing high performance audio software

https://doubt.gif.so/