Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026)

  Location: USA - San Antonio
  Remote: Yes | Hybrid
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Azure, AWS, Linux, TypeScript, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, C#, MySQL, Java, Groovy, Postgres, React, VueJS, etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregzapp/
  Email: greg.zapp@gmail.com

My most recent role was Principal Engineer at HungerRush where I delivered a number of high impact projects, including most recently their next-gen conversational voice AI ordering platform (OrderAI).

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends. Maybe.

Technologies: Python, AI/LLM/MCP, Grafana, N8n, GitHub Workflows, Okta, Terraform, some Ruby and some Crystal

Résumé/CV: https://hxii.github.io or https://0xff.nu

Email: cv [at] glushak.net

Recently picked up model benchmarking and training for fun (and personal profit) – https://0xff.nu/hexbench

I spent a decade in support, slowly automating myself out of every role until the tools I built became more valuable than the tickets I closed (at least to me). Now I write Python, creating internal tooling, LLM integrations and automations.

Current projects: hex (https://0xff.nu/hex), an AI executive assistant that manages my calendar, tasks, and Obsidian vault because my ADHD brain certainly won't, and sixwhyo (https://6yo.dev), a code reviewer powered by a 6-year-old's logic. Now also exploring iOS development to create an app I’ve been dreaming about.

I like simple and robust solutions over overly clever architecture, and am looking for a remote-first engineering role, not a support role with "engineer" in the title.

I do not trust what I have not verified, including my own code.

Full-stack dev, 5+ years, last year building LLM products rather than demos. Everything below is something I found by auditing my own work, not by reading about it.

intent-gate — https://www.npmjs.com/package/intent-gate A job posting with hidden instructions got my CV pipeline to write ten years of Kubernetes into my resume. Technology I have never touched. The system prompt told it to use only what was in my facts file and it obeyed the posting instead. What stopped it was a deterministic validator comparing every named technology against ground truth, no model in the loop. A prompt is a request. A check is a guarantee. I published the routing pattern as a library.

job-hunter — https://github.com/ale-aguirre/claude-job-hunter Autonomous job search agent running on my own search. It taught me that my own verifier was lying to me. It counted a URL redirect as a successful application. Aggregate confirmation sat at 78 percent and looked healthy, until I graded per channel and found four integrations at 100 percent and one at zero out of sixty, silently dead for months. The average was hiding it. That number was on my CV and I removed it.

DocUnify — production, private Document comparison SaaS running at an Argentine auto parts manufacturer, 72 employees, in a domain audited against IATF 16949 and ISO 9001. Two people there use it for their actual work. The part I would defend under questioning is the semantic reclassification after the LLM call, because the model kept flagging paraphrases as real differences and embeddings catch that.

This week — https://github.com/theam/facility/pull/242 Merged a fix into an open source AI SDLC project and filed two issues, one about an agent being able to write the field that marks its own check as platform verified. I reproduced the bug on my own machine first and my first repro was a false negative, because bash was eating the backslashes in my test payload.

English C1 written, B2 spoken. Open to full-time or contract.

    Location: USA
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No
    Technologies: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Ruby, Rails, Django, Express, Next.js, React, Vercel, PostgreSQL, Linux, Bash, AWS, HTML, CSS, Claude Code, LLMs, agentic.
    Resume/CV: 20 years experience as a full-stack engineer (web, native, frontend/backend, firmware, devops). Contact for resume.
    Email: ptx2 at-sign ptx2 dot net

Recent technical write-up and open-source project I made that reached #1 on HackerNews: https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi

Some things I've designed/built/launched/maintained professionally: high-traffic web frontend/backends, realtime interactive graphics apps, data visualizations, computer vision apps, firmware, reverse engineering, video/image processing, apis, api integrations (payments/social/data), distributed systems, linux sysadmin, refactoring/maintaining legacy systems, managing small engineering teams, remote work, customer facing work.

Some areas of interest: the outdoors, health and fitness, art, music, environment, games, human computer interaction, product design, ui/ux, embedded/iot devices, privacy, security, networking, optimization, unusual companies/products, web, linux.

Looking for interesting software engineer or tech co-founder/director/advisor opportunities!