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Expert Insights on Synthetic Data from the Tonic.ai Blog
Company blog · tonic.ai/blog · on HN as akamordataaisecurity
Expert Insights on Synthetic Data from the Tonic.ai Blog is the company blog at tonic.ai, writing about data, ai and security. Since 2018, 26 different Hacker News readers have linked it 66 times, most often “Tonic: The Fake Data Company”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tonic.ai's product and company pages for synthetic data, de-identification and RAG evaluation tools, not its blog posts. The comments do not discuss the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Accelerate development & testing with Tonic.ai. Generate realistic, production-like test data that preserves privacy & compliance in complex environments. Learn more!
Most-linked posts?
- Tonic: The Fake Data Company4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-08-18
- The Consumer Right That Makes NYPA the Toughest Privacy Act for AI2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-09-17
- Show HN: The best things in life are free, including this CSV generation tool2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-04-03
- Show HN: Improving Synthetic Data Distributions with Conditional Sampling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-14
- Show HN: Get your unstructured data AI-ready in minutes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-17
What Hacker News says?
I wonder whether something like this could be used to address the problem? https://www.tonic.ai/textual
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on “Slack AI Training with Customer Data”Submitted CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR as a story · 199 points
HN discussionTonic AI | Atlanta or SF| Software Engineer | ONSITE At Tonic we are building tools to help people create synthetic data that looks, feels, and acts like their real data, without compromising security, privacy, or regulatory compliance. Looking for a full stack engineer with a preference for someone stronger with back-end technologies. Tech Stack: dotnet core, java, react, python Learn more: https://tonic.ai E-mail…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)”Submitted Don’t be uncanny – 3 ways to nail your data driven demo as a story · 45 points
HN discussionTonic | San Francisco & Atlanta | Full-time | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://www.tonic.ai/ Tonic is a high growth, venture-backed startup with the goal of making it easier for organizations to use their data effectively while doing right by their customers, employees, and business partners. Our products automate the generation of data as credible as its source to eliminate the bottleneck of data access, enable collabora…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2020)”Submitted Show HN: Get your unstructured data AI-ready in minutes as a story · 38 points
HN discussionHi, this is Adam. I'm a founder at Tonic. As others have said, we've found a lot of smaller companies will test with production data because of their need/desire to move quickly. But we've also seen much much larger companies use production data in their dev/staging environments. Sometimes there will be production-like safeguards and security measures in place but not always. People shy away from practices that slow…
Comment linking /blog/condenser-a-database-subsetting-tool
on “CCPA Will Hit Dev Teams Harder Than GDPR”Submitted Show HN: Improving Synthetic Data Distributions with Conditional Sampling as a story · 17 points
HN discussionUse synthetic data instead? https://tonic.ai/
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on “Amnesia – High-Accuracy Data Anonymization”Submitted Prop 24 Puts Anonymized Data at Greater Risk of Re-Identification as a story · 16 points
HN discussionhttps://www.tonic.ai/products/textual offers NER models through an API or with a UI for managing projects. You can sign up for a free trial at https://textual.tonic.ai
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on “WhisperNER: Unified Open Named Entity and Speech Recognition”Submitted Using Docker to Manage Your Test Database(s) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionJust a heads up, on your Product page ( https://tonic.ai/product ) you have the same description under both "Point-and-click" and "Built-in Statistics."
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on “Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams”Submitted Dockerizing Mongo for Test and Development as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHi nagarjun. My company ( https://tonic.ai ) builds dev tools and we've noticed recently that companies with remote teams have been using our product for an unexpected use case. We are trying to investigate it further. Would you be willing to chat with me? If so, I'll drop you a way to get in touch and we can chat. quick fyi, it does not compete with OP's product.
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on “Launch HN: Dockup (YC W19) – On demand staging environments for dev teams”Submitted Reverse Engineering Your Test Data: It’s Not as Safe as You Think It Is as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThis is so unfortunate but a clear illustration of something I've been thinking about a lot when it comes to LLMs and AI. It seems like we're forgetting that we are just handing our data over to these companies on a solver platter in the form of our prompts. Disclosure that I do work for Tonic.ai and we are working on a way to automatically redact any information you send to an LLM - https://www.tonic.ai/solar
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on “38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers”Submitted Masquerade: A Postgres Proxy to Mask Data in Realtime as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAnyone know how this compares to https://www.tonic.ai/ ? Tonic lets you generate data for safe local dev/testing, and they're also open source and have some big customers.
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on “Launch HN: Synth (YC S20) – Realistic, synthetic test data for your app”Submitted How to Solve the Problem of Imbalanced Datasets: Meet Djinn by Tonic as a story · 9 points
HN discussionEddie, I think it would be neat if we could build vendor images by just supplying docker containers with maybe some type of config. At Tonic ( https://tonic.ai ) we do on-prem deploys with docker containers and docker-compose. Its seamless and would be great to use that same flow for Digital Ocean marketplace.
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on “DigitalOcean Marketplace”Submitted Extract Useful Data with JSON Path as a story · 9 points
HN discussionDisclaimer: I work at Tonic AI We have a product called Ephemeral (in some ways similar to Neon) that orchestrates a kubernetes cluster to spin up and down ephemeral databases from "snapshots" for this exact use case. We have a more well established product called Structural that does de-identification and anonymization from production data, and we have a pretty clean integration between the two products to make cre…
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on “Using short lived Postgres servers for testing”Submitted Database Subsetting Is Not a Piece of Cake, So We Baked a Project Just for You as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThanks for the shoutout, cush! And yup, our platform Tonic enables developers to realistically de-identify their data while preserving relationships and consistency across tables within their DBs, to optimize dev and test with real fake data. You can sign up for a sandbox here: https://www.tonic.ai/ We've also recently released a new platform called Djinn that is specifically designed for data science workflows. It…
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on “Generate Synthetic Data in 3 Lines of Code”Submitted Simple Foreign Key Detection – Automatically find foreign keys in your database as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHey folks. Adam here. I work at Tonic and helped developed Condenser. Happy to answer any questions and in the meantime, if you'd like to learn more you can also read more on our blog. https://www.tonic.ai/blog/condenser-a-database-subsetting-to...
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on “Show HN: Condenser – A database subsetting project”Submitted 6 Predictions for How Privacy Will Impact DevOps in 2021 as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAny comparisons to https://www.tonic.ai ? > Based on policies you define, individual fields can be encrypted/decrypted... Are the policies something like "retool" gets tokenized or faked data back, and the main app gets everything? Or is it more granular even within the main app? Like can I teach JumpWire about my app's users and our AuthZ ruleset? > or they partition the data by putting some fields in a data vault…
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on “Launch HN: JumpWire (YC W22) – Easily encrypt customer data in your databases”Submitted The Consumer Right That Makes NYPA the Toughest Privacy Act for AI as a story · 8 points
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