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subpar

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    Comment #49163946

    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 te…

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    Comment #48757141

    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 tea…

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    Comment #47952968

    firefly! iykyk

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    Comment #47294310

    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,…

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    Comment #47221072

    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 tea…

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    Comment #45648786

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

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    Comment #42952029

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

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    Comment #42711265

    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 i…

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    Comment #42711190

    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 sa…

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    Comment #42707797

    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 …

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    Comment #41477248

    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

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    Comment #40515559

    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…

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    Comment #39808128

    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 …

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    Comment #38382180

    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…

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    Comment #36479510

    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…

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    Comment #36345219

    email in profile if you ever want to chat

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    Comment #36345208

    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 option…

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    Comment #36345143

    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/bio…

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    Comment #36339646

    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 happen…

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    Comment #36141568

    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.

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    Comment #35540486

    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 awhi…

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    Comment #35288740

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

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    Comment #34926691

    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:…

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    Comment #34552466

    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 m…

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    Comment #33991738

    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, ther…