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dowakin··on GPT-6 Astra
So cool! I'm happy 5.6 Sol user. But for Astra, OpenAI please introduce 100x Pro plan!
dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)
9 Mothers YC P26 | Robotics | Austin, ONSITE | $150-400k + equity + benefits | 9mothers.com

I'm Roman, co-founder of 9 Mothers. We're building AI weapon systems in Austin, TX. Our first product is designed to stop group 1 suicide drones. We started in 2025 and are still a small team of fewer than 20 people.

We're hiring for a lot of roles: software, robotics, ee, perception. I'm primarily focused on robotics, so if you have a strong background in robotics, reach out to me directly at (name)@9mothers.com.

All roles are here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers

dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)
9 Mothers YC P26 | Robotics | Austin, ONSITE | $150-400k + equity + benefits | 9mothers.com

I'm Roman, co-founder of 9 Mothers. We're building AI weapon systems in Austin, TX. Our first product is designed to stop group 1 suicide drones. We started in 2025 and are still a small team of fewer than 20 people.

We're hiring for a lot of roles, but mostly in software and robotics. I'm primarily focused on robotics, so if you have a strong background in robotics, reach out to me directly at (name)@9mothers.com.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers

dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
9 Mothers Defense | Robotics Engineers | Austin TX | Full-time | ONSITE

We're a YC company building AI-driven turrets to stop hostile drones - where robotics needs F1-level speed.

We're looking for smart, T-shaped teammates: experts in some part of robotics who are happy to jump in wherever needed.

U.S. persons only.

Contact CTO directly at roman@9mothers.com with your portfolio of previously built robots

dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)
9 Mothers Defense | Robotics / Audio Engineers | Austin TX | Full-time | ONSITE

We're building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones - where robotics needs F1-level speed.

We're looking for smart, T-shaped teammates: people who are experts in one area but happy to jump in wherever needed. Our software team is small, so every member makes a real impact.

If you want to write motor control in Rust, optimize camera processing with custom CUDA kernels on Jetson, or rework a transformer-based tracker to handle small objects - you can do that here, and much more.

US persons only

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers

dowakin··on Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
The Brave is the reasons why I can tolerate iphone )
dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)
9 Mothers Defense | Robotics Engineer, Data Scientist | Austin TX | Full-time | ONSITE

We're building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones - where robotics needs F1-level speed.

We're looking for smart, T-shaped teammates: people who are experts in one area but happy to jump in wherever needed. Our software team is small, so every member makes a real impact.

If you want to write motor control in Rust, optimize camera processing with custom CUDA kernels on Jetson, or rework a transformer-based tracker to handle small objects - you can do that here, and much more.

US persons only

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers

dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
@superfist Lol, nice observation :). And "we love them both" is definitely the right answer. It really comes down to whoever dares to implement it. I love Rust for its huge ecosystem and the ability to write high-level code when needed, and I love Zig for its simplicity and how easily it works with C/C++ libraries. I honestly can't choose just one. This is just an example of a project we have sitting in the backlog.
dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)
9 Mothers Defense | Robotics / Data Scientist | Austin TX | Full-time | ONSITE

We're building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones - where robotics needs F1-level speed.

We're looking for smart, T-shaped teammates: people who are experts in one area but happy to jump in wherever needed. Our software team is small, so every member makes a real impact.

If you want to write motor control in Zig, optimize camera processing with custom CUDA kernels on Jetson, or rework a transformer-based tracker to handle small objects - you can do that here, and much more.

US persons only

Send your CV, GitHub (or any publicly visible project), and a short note to jobs@9mothers.com

dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)
9 Mothers Defense | Robotics Eng. & Computer Vision / Data Scientist | Hybrid (Austin TX) | Full-time

Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

Computer Vision / ML: detection + tracking, transformer-based visual models, TensorRT tuning on Jetson

US persons only (e.g. green-card, citizens). Shoot your résumé / GitHub and a quick note on why you're good fit to jobs@9mothers.com

dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)
9 Mothers Defense | Robotics Eng. & Computer Vision / Data Scientist | Hybrid (Austin TX) | Full-time

Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

Computer Vision / ML: detection + tracking, transformer-based visual models, TensorRT tuning on Jetson

US persons only (e.g. green-card, citizens). Shoot your résumé / GitHub and a quick note on why you're good fit to jobs@9mothers.com

dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)
9 Mothers Defense | Robotics Eng. & Computer Vision / Data Scientist | Hybrid (Austin TX) | Full-time

Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

Computer Vision / ML: detection + tracking, transformer-based visual models, TensorRT tuning on Jetson

US persons only (e.g. green-card, citizens). Shoot your résumé / GitHub and a quick note on why you're good fit to jobs@9mothers.com

dowakin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
9 Mothers Defense | Embedded Robotics Eng. & Computer Vision / ML Data Scientist | Hybrid (Austin TX) | Full-time

Building AI-driven turrets that stop hostile drones. We need sharp, hands-on engineers:

Embedded Robotics: Python on Jetson, CAN (+ EtherCAN / EtherCAT) drive buses, high-speed cameras, real-time PID/servo control, ROS, TensorRT

Computer Vision / ML: detection + tracking, transformer-based visual models, TensorRT tuning on Jetson

US persons only (e.g. green-card, citizens). Shoot your résumé / GitHub and a quick note on why you're good fit to jobs@9mothers.com

dowakin··on 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation
Haha, they see themselves as ‘good cops,’ deciding what content is acceptable and what isn’t. It’s not even about copyright—it’s about what they think is good for users and what isn’t.

And in the process of playing ‘police’ they end up taking down one of the best videos explaining how Bitcoin works.

dowakin··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
I started a mini-SaaS focused on identifying what content/scripts are blocked on websites by AdBlockers, Firefox Tracking Protection, and similar tools.

I initially aimed for an cheap monthly pricing plan and many clients, but that strategy hasn't been successful so far.

However, in the process of finding clients, I found two 'enterprise' customers. I built a custom on-premise version for them and charging $300 per month for each, which technically sums to over $500. Not sure it is what I wanted )

dowakin··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Hi, I love your YouTube channel! I watched a bunch of videos from it last year! Thank you!
dowakin··on How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me
BTW "Factorio: Space Age" was release a few days ago. Personally, I'm going to spend whole Sunday playing it :)
dowakin··on Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store
Without Gorhill's uBlock Origin, the internet would be a really awful place. Thank you, Raymond!
dowakin··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
Working on validating a startup idea I had 12 years ago. It's like Pingdom for ads, periodically checking if your ads are being blocked by AdBlockers.

I always thought the idea was somewhat weak, but not enough to discard entirely. So, along with a friend, I built a prototype over the last two weeks, and now we're trying to validate it: https://scanningfox.com/

I'm enjoying using Elixir for this project. As a long-time Erlang dev, I was initially skeptical about Elixir, but Phoenix.LiveView has changed my opinion.

dowakin··on Flock, as depicted by Apple
Funny video, but it would be much better if uBlock worked on Safari )
dowakin··on An animated introduction to Fourier series
I only got FFT after following the course `Introduction to Graduate Algorithms`( Georgia Tech) and implementing everything from the lectures in python. It is really good course:

https://edstem.org/us/courses/47529/lessons/80063/slides/440...

dowakin··on Show HN: I created automatic subtitling app to boost short videos
You could try `https://github.com/jianfch/stable-ts`, it's an improvement for OpenAI Whisper. It does pretty good job.
dowakin··on Rainforest QA CEO: What happened when we killed freemium
If you don't have X account: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1719140833931485432.html
dowakin··on MiniZinc
MiniZinc is high-level modeling language, before using it I'd suggest taking course https://www.coursera.org/learn/discrete-optimization where you could use/create different solvers.

Only after it makes sense to take https://www.coursera.org/learn/basic-modeling and https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-modeling courses.

If you want a quick start read really good tutorial on official website https://www.minizinc.org/doc-2.7.2/en/part_2_tutorial.html and play with examples at online playground https://play.disopt.com/ or locally installing MiniZincIDE.

dowakin··on Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer
If you want to train the Donut, check out this notebook on Kaggle. It trains Donut to read plots for a competition. The notebook contains full pipeline for finetuning. https://www.kaggle.com/code/nbroad/donut-train-benetech
dowakin··on Effective Spaced Repetition
Yes, I'm using for language learning. Usually via tool `https://github.com/sigoden/aichat` with different roles that I've created. For example for grammar ChatGPT generates bunch of examples for specific grammar rules, which I memorize.
dowakin··on How to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style (2021)
Check out explanation by Walter Lewin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhawwXcQsUs
dowakin··on Belarus joins Russia’s war on Ukraine
Belarus from the start of war allowed to move Russia army to Ukraine. And Belarus was helping Russia with transportation, hospitals, evacuations, etc.

Today Belarus Army joins invasion.

dowakin··on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
Just thank you so much!
dowakin··on Ukraine’s Turkish-made drones face off against advanced Russian military
Bayraktars are good against Russia. Check out the video. Bayraktar destoys "Бук" - miss advanced Russian anti air-system https://m.censor.net/ua/news/3319858/bayiraktar_znyschyv_buk...
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