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Surge AI
Company blog · surgehq.ai/blog · on HN as echenaidata
Surge AI is the company blog at surgehq.ai, writing about ai and data. Since 2020, 41 different Hacker News readers have linked it 190 times, most often “LMArena Is a Cancer on AI”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence — curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.
Most-linked posts?
- LMArena Is a Cancer on AI4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-12-08
- ChatGPT Crushes Google on Coding Queries, and Matches It at General Information4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-12-21
- /case-studies/anthropic-claude-surgeai-rlhf-platform3 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2023-11-01
- An Introduction to Language Models in NLP (Part 1: Intuition)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-11-11
- Sudo L7 – A benchmark that measures the judgment behind good engineering3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-08
- Extracting text from a pdf broke ChatGPT3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-03
- Examples of the Importance of Context-Sensitivity in Data-Centric AI2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-11-23
- RL Environments and the Hierarchy of Agentic Capabilities2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-11-11
- Are the Spammers Winning? Failures in Gmail Spam Detection2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-24
- Unsexy AI Failures: The PDF That Broke ChatGPT2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-17
What Hacker News says?
Surge AI ( https://surgehq.ai ) | Software Engineers (full-stack, backend / infra) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | SF or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We’re building a data platform that powers AI teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and more. Reinforcement Learnin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted Three areas where Google Search lags behind competitors: code, cooking, travel as a story · 527 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai ) | Software Engineers (full-stack https://surgeai.notion.site/Full-Stack-Engineer-41537e588f5c... ) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | SF, NYC, or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We’re building a data platform that powers AI teams at OpenAI, An…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted Is Google Search Deteriorating? Measuring Google's Search Quality in 2022 as a story · 470 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai/careers ) | Software Engineers (full-stack / product https://surgeai.notion.site/Product-Engineer-4211688ff99b46d... ) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | SF, NYC, or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We operate a data platform that powers AI teams…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted 30% of Google's Emotions Dataset Is Mislabeled as a story · 334 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai ) | Software Engineers (full-stack https://surgeai.notion.site/Full-Stack-Engineer-41537e588f5c... ) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | SF, NYC, or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We’re building a data platform that powers AI teams at OpenAI, An…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)”Submitted Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments as a story · 265 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai ) | Software Engineers (full-stack or applied ML) | Full-time | SF or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure powering the next wave of AI and LLMs. We’re building a data platform that powers AI teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and more. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback is the critical technique behind the new generation of AI assistants, and…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2024)”Submitted Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels as a story · 222 points
HN discussionSurge AI | Full-Stack Engineers | Remote | Full-Time or Contract | https://surgehq.ai AI is going to change the world, but the advances of the past few years have been slow to translate into real-world impact. Our mission at Surge is to change that. We’ve been developing two products: A platform for extremely high-quality data labeling. Think Mechanical Turk 2.0, but with an elite workforce: in order to build models…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted Building a no-code toxicity classifier by talking to GitHub Copilot as a story · 212 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai ) | Software Engineers (full-stack or applied ML) | Full-time | SF or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure powering the next wave of AI and LLMs. We’re building a data platform that powers AI teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and more. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback is the critical technique behind the new generation of AI assistants, and…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)”Submitted Are popular toxicity models simply profanity detectors? as a story · 183 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai/careers ) | Software Engineers (full-stack / product) and Strategic Project Lead, and many more https://surgehq.ai/careers | Full-time | ONSITE SF or NYC | Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We operate the largest human data platform in the industry and power the AI teams at all of the top AI labs. This year, we've been…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Generating Children’s Stories Using GPT-3 and DALL·E as a story · 138 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai/careers ) | Software Engineers (full-stack / product https://surgeai.notion.site/Product-Engineer-4211688ff99b46d... ) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | ONSITE SF or NYC Hybrid Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We operate a data platform that powers AI…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)”Submitted We asked 100 humans to draw the DALL·E prompts as a story · 138 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai ) | Software Engineers (full-stack, backend / infra) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | SF or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We’re building a data platform that powers AI teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and more. Reinforcement Learnin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)”Submitted I wanted burritos. Facebook Search sent me to a dead restaurant 45m away as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai/careers ) | Software Engineers (full-stack / product https://surgeai.notion.site/Product-Engineer-4211688ff99b46d... ) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | SF, NYC, or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We’re building a data platform that powers AI t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)”Submitted SWE-Bench Failures: When Coding Agents Spiral into 693 Lines of Hallucinations as a story · 22 points
HN discussionI thought Claude used human feedback due to Surge claiming they were a customer: https://www.surgehq.ai/case-studies/anthropic-claude-surgeai...
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on “RLHF is just barely RL”Submitted Examples of the Importance of Context-Sensitivity in Data-Centric AI as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai/careers ) | Software Engineers (full-stack / product https://surgeai.notion.site/Product-Engineer-4211688ff99b46d... ) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | SF, NYC, or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We’re building a data platform that powers AI t…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)”Submitted Google Search Is Falling Behind as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai ) | Software Engineers (full-stack, backend / infra) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | SF or Remote Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure powering the next wave of AI and LLMs. We’re building a data platform that powers AI teams at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and more. Reinforcement Learn…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)”Submitted Twitter’s Egregious Content Moderation Failures as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSurge AI ( https://surgehq.ai/careers ) | Software Engineers (full-stack / product https://surgeai.notion.site/Product-Engineer-4211688ff99b46d... ) and Strategic Project Lead ( https://surgeai.notion.site/Strategic-Projects-Lead-Generati... ) | Full-time | ONSITE SF or NYC Hybrid Our mission at Surge is to build the human infrastructure behind the next wave of AI and LLMs. We operate a data platform that powers AI…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025)”Submitted Move Over, Google: The TikTokification of Next-Gen Search as a story · 13 points
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