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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @11:56AM (#49523768)
Justworks | Associate Software Engineer, Expenses | Toronto, Canada | HYBRID | Full-time | $109K–$136K CAD

Justworks helps small businesses manage payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance so they can focus on running their business.

We’re hiring an Associate Software Engineer for our Toronto Expenses pod. You’ll work alongside 3–4 senior engineers building expense submissions, approvals and reimbursements, while helping migrate services from Ruby/Rails to Go and develop AI-powered features.

We’re looking for:

  • 1+ year of professional software engineering experience
  • Experience with a modern server-side language and interest in learning Go
  • Knowledge of REST APIs, SQL, and relational data models
  • A product-minded, customer-focused approach
  • Curiosity about AI-assisted development
Our stack includes Go, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, MySQL, Kafka, AWS, Redis, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, CircleCI, and Datadog.

Apply: https://grnh.se/wlv9zr391us

Re:Ask HN: How do small teams securely share env files? on Saturday May 23, 2026 @08:24PM (#48253018)
I’ve used 1password secure note feature to share env vars.

Show HN: Agentctl, a local control plane for coding agents

https://github.com/chocks/agentctl

I’ve been building agentctl, a small Go tool that sits between coding agents and the risky actions they want to take: package installs, shell execution, secret access, file writes, outbound API calls. The design is deliberately narrow and local-first. No HTTP server, no hosted component, no repo-level config sprawl. Everything lives under ~/.agentctl/. Policy is yours, traces are yours.The...

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) on Friday May 01, 2026 @02:05PM (#47977970)
oops sorry I did not realize my about section was empty, added email to profile. thanks for the nudge
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) on Friday May 01, 2026 @12:47PM (#47976955)
Justworks | Hybrid (Toronto, CA – 3 days in office) | Full-Time | Senior Software Engineer https://www.justworks.com

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. At JustWorks, we tackle complex HR challenges so our customers don’t have to. We’re a data-driven team that’s constantly iterating and improving, and we care deeply about building meaningful products.

If you’re excited about working in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment and want to have fun while building something impactful, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/justworks/jobs/7721539?gh_j...

Feel free to DM me if you have any questions about the role or the company, happy to chat!

Re:Local LLM App by Ente on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:56AM (#47517416)
This looks amazing! As I learn and experiment more with local LLMs, I'm becoming more of a fan of local/offline LLMs. I believe there's a huge gap between local LLM based apps and commercial models like Claude/ChatGPT. Excited to see more apps leveraging local LLMs.

Show HN: Sleuther, a ohmyzsh plugin for local LLM debugging with Ollama

https://github.com/chocks/sleuther

Recently, I noticed my debugging workflow had become: copy error into ChatGPT/Claude -> go back and repeat (while being cautious not copying over sensitive stuff like paths, names etc.)So, I built Sleuther, a Oh My Zsh plugin that asks a local LLM via Ollama to explain and debug errors directly in the terminal. Right now I am using Qwen2.5-Coder.At a previous job, I used warp.dev extensively...

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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:57AM (#47440605)
Fantastic for the team, huge fan for Ruff and Uv. Hope OpenAI continues with the OSS tooling and not introduce restrictive licensing.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) on Monday March 09, 2026 @12:05PM (#47310875)
Experimenting with: https://github.com/chocks/locode Local-first AI coding CLI. Routes simple tasks to a local LLM and complex tasks to Claude.

also just posted a Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310543

Show HN: Locode, a local first CLI that routes tasks to local LLMs or Claude

https://github.com/chocks/locode

Hey HN, For the past few months, I have been working a lot with Claude code and a huge fan of the tool. When working on some tasks, I noticed Claude spending tokens for simple local tasks like find, grep etc, so I wondered: what if simple local tasks could run on a local LLM and route complex reasoning Claude?To help answer that question, I started building Locode, a open source CLI that tries...

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Re:Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project on Thursday February 19, 2026 @02:53PM (#47078299)
Nice, pretty cool site!
Heya (also from TO ), I had something similar in mind when I built https://www.producthunt.com/products/hitechjobsca , had to shut it down during covid but happy to connect and brainstorm ideas in the Hrtech space if you are up for it. Contact in profile.
Re:Show HN: SQL Noir – Learn SQL by solving crimes on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:34PM (#43042328)
This is pretty fun, I tried the two free mysteries and was fun solving them. One nit, would be nice if the SQL editor supported comments so we can comment out old queries before running new one so as keeping a history esp if we need to run the same queries again. Good stuff :)
Re:Happy New Year 2025 HN on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @12:33AM (#42564181)
Happy new year folks!
Re:Show HN: Chrome extension to create calendar events on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:44AM (#42328670)
Thanks! My dentist sends my appointments as text in email and I wanted something to add to my calendar, so I ended up building this tool :)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) on Thursday October 03, 2024 @08:30AM (#41730125)
Direct link in this post works but looks like the one linked from the careers page is broken. https://supabase.com/careers#positions titled "Site Reliability Engineer: Postgres" goes to a broken link: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/supabase/ba5e5848-0ef7-430d-b773-94...
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) on Thursday October 03, 2024 @08:23AM (#41730044)
hey Fred, just a heads up - the career page links to a greenhouse board that seems inactive. https://tandemai.com/careers/#currentopening goes to https://boards.greenhouse.io/tandemailimited which says "The board you are looking for is no longer open."
Also use safari on ios, I started typing my time zone (New York) is the search box and it pulled up and I selected it.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023) on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:45PM (#36155532)
heads up - seems like there's a typo in the url, has a %7C appended to it so can't open the link.
Re:Ask HN: Tier 1 software engineering employers in Toronto on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @07:38AM (#35355692)
There’s Amazon, Instacart, Snowflake, Doordash, Shopify
Perfectly cooked eggs every single time, bought this in 2014 still going strong: KRUPS F23070 Egg Cooker with Water Level Indicator, 7-Eggs Capacity, White https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00005KIRS/
Re:Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #9 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:48PM (#28323418)
Snowboard looks great. Congrats on the launch! At my work we currently use this open source tool https://www.amundsen.io/amundsen/ mostly to search schemas and tables. Curious to see the differences with Snowboard.
I’m genuinely curious why companies don’t do this? It seems like a great deal, many cities in US are great with decent cost of living. I used to live in Kansas before & home ownership is cheaper and time zones are usually better. Maybe the total cost of hire is still higher? idk
Hey, I’ve felt the same about missing social aspect of office during these wfh days. One thing that has worked for me is, I do virtual coffee chats with couple folks in my team and other friends at work every week and we talk about stuff of mutual interest work or non-work related.
Pretty cool! We use Airflow heavily here at Instacart. Some of our teams use a managed service from google for deployment and orchestration https://cloud.google.com/composer/ For companies wanting a standard structure of dags and self hosting their airflow deployments, your tool would be super helpful to get started. One suggestion - would be cool to add separate deployments for the different components of airflow - webserver, workers, scheduler etc. reading through the readme it looks like you deploy the single image to the Qubole Cloud? Often times deploying code to airflow is updating the dags files in airflows file system.
Re:Ask HN: How do I improve our data infrastructure? on Saturday April 20, 2019 @07:41AM (#19705987)
Sounds like you are have mix of on-perm & aws? If it is all aws, check out EMR: https://aws.amazon.com/emr/. Alternatively, a relatively easier way to build pipelines on AWS is using AWS Kinesis for event streaming to S3 and ingest S3 files to Snowflake https://www.snowflake.com/ - works relatively well for smaller workloads & easy to setup.

IMO - the best way to raise awareness is to build a scrappy prototype pipeline that can be demoed & then demo/over communicate with all the stakeholders :). Having a working demo makes it easier to visualize the pros of the new proposed system compared to the existing one.

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