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ukd1

2,209 karmajoined 15 years ago
9 Mothers, P26. Former Rainforest QA, S12.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/russ; my proof: https://keybase.io/russ/sigs/7g3mDIVY_ZiVUo30Nf1-3OWwXuD2KoDIoJsEU_M3wts ]

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Lessons learned building a web application crawler

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10 points·by ukd1·5 months ago·1 comments

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ukd1
·5 hours ago·discuss
Ya, things always evolve, and can't always be perfect, especially against adapting enemies. Strobes; ya - would be interesting to see what these do vs us, not tried.
ukd1
·5 hours ago·discuss
This. See https://9mothers.com
ukd1
·9 hours ago·discuss
ds4 is pretty optimized for this btw - https://github.com/antirez/ds4
ukd1
·2 months ago·discuss
btw copy pasted your idea in to supergrok, and learnt about Niri! Great use case, thanks!
ukd1
·3 months ago·discuss
Why: bipedal maybe not, but non-flying can usually carry more.
ukd1
·3 months ago·discuss
Well humanoid / non-flying robotic weapons are already being used, and have been for a while. e.g. Zelenskyy https://x.com/KaterynaLis/status/2043827043863863404?s=20 talking about their successful use recently.
ukd1
·3 months ago·discuss
I get 10g symmetric in Austin for $150/m. I had Cox before, and it was $180ish for 1g down and ~50mb up. Things are improving!
ukd1
·3 months ago·discuss
9 Mothers YC P26 | Robotics / Software Engineering | Austin, ONSITE | $150-400k + equity + benefits | 9mothers.com

I'm Russ, one of the founders of 9 Mothers. We're making AI weapon systems out of Austin, TX. Our first product is for stopping group 1 suicide drones. We started in 2025 - still a small team under 20 people. We're hiring for a lot of roles, but mostly in software and robotics.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers
ukd1
·3 months ago·discuss
Cool! Are you interested in defense? If so, we're based in Austin, TX and in the current YC batch.
ukd1
·3 months ago·discuss
Are you interested in more robotics / defense?
ukd1
·4 months ago·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding lol
ukd1
·4 months ago·discuss
Ditto. Though, I fixed my M1. I have an M4 max for work; the nano screen is a win. The perf is better, but it's really marginal unless actually doing stuff with the GPU, then it's super slow compared to a decent GPU anyway (i.e. h100, gb etc)
ukd1
·5 months ago·discuss
One of our engineers built a web-app crawler from scratch (why? enable users to quickly build a QA test plan). Jiri researched existing crawlers first and found nothing: he wrote about why build from scratch, plus technical challenges he ran into.
ukd1
·6 months ago·discuss
So good!
ukd1
·7 months ago·discuss
Gitea. Gitlab (ish?).
ukd1
·7 months ago·discuss
Is that true? There is obviously some creative work in connector design - optimizing for looks, robustness to damage, dirt, easy of use, reliability technically, etc.
ukd1
·7 months ago·discuss
Unfortunately this actually is believable. SMH.
ukd1
·7 months ago·discuss
We love them both...
ukd1
·8 months ago·discuss
Some customers (e.g. DoD, gov) basically exclusively use it, so you'd have to if you ever interacted with them. This is a win.
ukd1
·8 months ago·discuss
I get consistently ~1.3-1.6gbps on fast.com with similar setup (10g fiber, UDM Pro, E7, etc). I think where I live there are very few / zero folks on 6ghz...so, win.