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ukd1

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9 Mothers, P26. Former Rainforest QA, S12.

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ukd1··on iPhone Duo
$1999
ukd1··on My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini
if you like this style and want more r/LocalLLaMA and r/homelabs have a bunch
ukd1··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
I've used gitlab and gitea; gitea is faster, and easier to manage and does everything I actually need though, is less feature complete.
ukd1··on ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days
even just reading the article the left-lean/bias is clear here.
ukd1··on Zed DeltaDB
Zed used to be good, now it hogs CPU for no reason and they don't bother fixing it.
ukd1··on Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity
This won't work. Just do air-conditioning whilst power is being produced? LOL, you know it's hot in someplaces outside of that?
ukd1··on How to hide from killer drones
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··on How to hide from killer drones
This. See https://9mothers.com
ukd1··on Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
ds4 is pretty optimized for this btw - https://github.com/antirez/ds4
ukd1··on Grok 4.3
btw copy pasted your idea in to supergrok, and learnt about Niri! Great use case, thanks!
ukd1··on Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
Why: bipedal maybe not, but non-flying can usually carry more.
ukd1··on Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture
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··on Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't
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··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)
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··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
Cool! Are you interested in defense? If so, we're based in Austin, TX and in the current YC batch.
ukd1··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)
Are you interested in more robotics / defense?
ukd1··on Scaling Karpathy's Autoresearch: What Happens When the Agent Gets a GPU Cluster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding lol
ukd1··on MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max
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··on Lessons learned building a web application crawler
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··on New YC homepage
So good!
ukd1··on Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions
Gitea. Gitlab (ish?).
ukd1··on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
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··on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction
Unfortunately this actually is believable. SMH.
ukd1··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
We love them both...
ukd1··on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
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··on From 400 Mbps to 1.7 Gbps: A WiFi 7 Debugging Journey
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.
ukd1··on Waymo runs over beloved neighborhood cat in Mission District
Hitting a pet / animal should be treated the same as hitting a child? No.
ukd1··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
dedicated
ukd1··on MinIO stops distributing free Docker images
It's different as a) they did offer it for free and b) have to maintain it for the closed version.

However, this is also a classic move, so shouldn't be unexpected behavior these days...

ukd1··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
My last co runs hundreds of servers with Hetzner for a semi-stateless workload. With AWS, the pricing let alone the performance wouldn't be viable. At some point we also used Heroku for the application (more recently EKS); the combo drove folks nuts as, it was "weird".
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