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Kadoa | Software & Data Engineers | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com

Kadoa is the web data layer for finance. We use coding agents to build, monitor, and repair deterministic data pipelines for investment firms, so they can make faster and better decisions.

All founders have spent years in the trenches writing web scraping and ETL code and still do it almost every single day. We are growing fast, have a drama-free and distraction-light environment, and try to minimize the distance between the code & data you ship and the customers who use it.

We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, data, and AI. We're a lean remote team and are looking for low-ego generalists with high agency that can help us build a platform that combines the most intuitive UX with world-class accuracy and performance.

Open roles:

- Web Scraping Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/web-scraping-engineer

- Senior Software Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/senior-software-engineer

If that sounds like you, please email me at (adrian at kadoa dot com) and mention HN in the subject line. Please include any relevant Github projects.

It's great to see money made in one of the few remaining unregulated fields like math and software applied to problems in the heavily regulated healthcare industry. There is an asymmetry in healthcare innovation that nobody ever got fired for blocking a good thing, but you can lose your job for approving a bad one.

I'm also following the very inspirational journey of the former Gitlab CEO who battles cancer by founding companies with his own money [0].

[0] https://sytse.com/cancer/

Kadoa | Web Scraping / Software Engineer | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com

Kadoa is the web data layer for finance. We use the best coding agents to produce the most accurate web datasets, so the leading investment firms can make faster and better decisions.

All founders have spent years in the trenches writing web scraping and ETL code and still do it almost every single day. We are growing fast, have a drama-free and distraction-light environment, and try to minimize the distance between the code & data you ship and the customers who use it.

We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, web data, and AI.

Open roles:

- Web Scraping Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/web-scraping-engineer

- Senior Software Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/senior-software-engineer

If that sounds like you, please email me at (adrian at kadoa dot com) and mention HN in the subject line.

With SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, we're likely to see 3 of the largest IPOs ever (by a wide margin) this year. Will existing institutional investors trim other positions to allocate a lot of capital for these mega listings or is this not a concern?

At least it's not disclosed in any of his 278-T transactions (1,391 trades, which is not the full picture)

The data pipelines need some more work to be OS ready, but it's on my list.

Just updated my HN Wrapped project with it and it does well on my totally unscientific LLM humor benchmark: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com

It's rare in history that a software product can be so unreliable without any negative business impact because it's the category leader and demand only keeps growing.

Reminds me of the early days of World of Warcraft, when servers went down frequently because Blizzard couldn't keep up with all the load. Everyone was frustrated but of course nobody stopped playing.

Love the idea. Let me get to this over the weekend and open-source it, then ping you via email.

Appreciate the feedback, just updated the title to be more clear.

In a separate email, they note:

For affected deployments created during this window, any requests served until 21:10 UTC did not execute Middleware. The issue has been fully remediated and no redeployment is required.

If, for authentication, authorization, or access control, you are exclusively relying upon Middleware, this incident may have allowed requests to bypass Middleware logic that would normally run. We recommend that you analyze your logs for the period between 11:20 UTC and 21:10 UTC on March 6, 2026, for any potential unauthorized access or activity.

It's working pretty well for generating an xkcd comic for your HN profile: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/

Previous nano banana frequently made speech attribution errors, the new one seems a lot more consistent.

Anybody else not seeing it available in Codex app or CLI yet (with Plus)?

Kadoa | Multiple roles | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com

Web scraping hasn't changed in decades: engineers still write brittle scripts that constantly break. Kadoa automates the entire web data pipeline with AI agents that build, maintain, and validate scraper code themselves.

All 3 founders have spent years in the trenches writing web scraping and ETL software and still do it almost every single day. We’re making sure every team member can do the best work of their career at Kadoa.

We are growing fast, have a drama-free and distraction-light environment, and try to minimize the distance between the code you ship and the customers who use it.

We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, web scraping, and AI.

Open roles:

- Senior Frontend Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/frontend-engineer

- Senior Software Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/senior-software-engineer

If that sounds like you, please email me at (adrian at kadoa dot com) and mention HN in the subject line.

I recently met a European space startup founder and was surprised to learn how much space innovation is happening in Europe with ESA. Europe wants to become less depended on SpaceX and NASA, and is heavily investing there. More funding + strong aerospace programs at universities like TU Munich has led to companies like ISAR Aerospace (SpaceX competitor), which is great to see.

dang's explanation sums it up nicely:

It's human nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias. Everyone does it, but we perceive other people as doing it more than we do, which is itself a variation of the bias. You can even see it in the title of the OP, in the word "overwhelmingly". That's excessive: the negative bias is noticeable, but if you look closely, it's not overwhelming. (To make up some numbers, it's more like 60-40, not 90-10.)

However, it often feels as if it is overwhelming; in fact, one or two datapoints, plus negativity bias, are enough to create just such a feeling. The feeling gets expressed in ways that trigger similar feelings in other people, so we end up with a positive* feedback loop.

The interesting question is, what factors mitigate this? how do we dampen negativity bias? or, how do we get negative feedback into our positive feedback loop of negative affect? That must also be happening all the time, or we'd be in a "war of all against all", which isn't the case, though (again) it may feel like it.

* ['positive' in the sense of increasing; a positive loop of negative affect!]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40430263

Politics aside: If this is all true and was a snatch and grab, it will go down as one of the most impressive military operations in the 21st century.

Kadoa | Multiple roles | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com

We’re on a mission to give humans and LLMs reliable and fast access to web data.

Web scraping used to be the same for decades (brittle scripts that break constantly). We're automating that end-to-end with LLMs that build and maintain data pipelines. We're also heavily focused on making ethical scraping the default (robots.txt checks, rate limiting, etc.).

All 3 founders have spent years in the trenches writing web scraping and ETL software and still do it almost every single day. We’re making sure every team member can do the best work of their career at Kadoa.

We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, data, and AI.

We are growing fast, have a no-bullshit culture, and try to minimize the distance between the code you write and the customers who use it.

We have openings for:

- Senior Frontend Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/frontend-engineer

- Senior Software Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/senior-software-engineer

If that sounds like you, please email me at (adrian at kadoa dot com) and mention HN in the subject line. AI slop applications will be filtered out immediately ;)

Merry Christmas HN! You're one of the few constants among the many variables in my life, please never change :)

"The Thinking Game" is an absolutely fascinating and inspirational documentary about DeepMind and Demis Hassabis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ

Makes you really optimistic about the future of humanity :)

Would love to learn more about how this is built. I remember a similar project from 4 years ago[0] that used a classic BERT model for NER on HN comments.

I assume this one uses a few-shot LLM approach instead, which is slower and more expensive at inference, but so much faster to build since there's no tedious labeling needed.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28596207

Thanks. I now run a two-step process: first pass reads through all posts and comments to extract patterns, second pass uses those to generate the content. Should be much more representative of your full year now :)

Ah, I've found the issue. Turns out I didn't account for case-insensitive HN usernames like yours :) should be fixed, love your current xkcd :D

Appreciate the feedback, will try to iterate it to greatness further. It's still a bit hit or miss, but I've made a few improvements:

- improved prompts with your feedback

- added post/comment shuffling to remove recency bias

- tried to fix the speech attribution errors in the xkcd

Thanks, you got a great tagline!

The xkcd should be saved and cached once generated, I'll look into the issue.

How would you improve saving?

Server is melting a bit, looking into it.

EDIT: a retry worked. Enjoy: https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/jaggs

The salt race condition comic made me laugh :D

You can get your HN profile analyzed and roasted by it. It's pretty funny :) https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com

No gemini-3-flash yet, right? Any ETA on that mentioned? 2.5-flash has been amazing in terms of cost/value ratio.

Kadoa | Web Scraping/Software Engineer | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com

We’re automating web scraping at scale with AI. Web scraping used to be the same for decades (writing and maintaining rule-based scripts for each source), and we're fully automating that process with LLMs. We're also heavily focused on making ethical scraping the default (robots.txt checks, rate limiting, any custom compliance rules).

But we can't do it alone. We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, data, and AI. We are growing fast, have a “no-bullshit” policy, and try to minimize the distance between the code you write and the customers who use it. We iterate to greatness :)

We're currently looking for a senior web scraping engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/web-scraping-engineer

If that sounds like you, please email me at (adrian at kadoa dot com) and mention HN in the subject line. Ideally you include an ETL or scraping project you've been working on in the past.