jon_north

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by jon_north 16d ago
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total yea
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by jon_north 16d ago
Location: USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Maybe Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com&#x
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2026)
7 points by jon_north 16d ago|23 comments
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by jon_north 2mo ago
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total yea
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by jon_north 2mo ago
Location: USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Maybe Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com&#x
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2026)
4 points by jon_north 2mo ago|15 comments
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by jon_north 3mo ago
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total yea
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by jon_north 3mo ago
Location: USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Maybe Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com&#x
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2026)
7 points by jon_north 3mo ago|20 comments
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by jon_north 4mo ago
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total yea
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by jon_north 4mo ago
Location: USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Maybe Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com&#x
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2026)
13 points by jon_north 4mo ago|33 comments
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by jon_north 5mo ago
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total yea
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by jon_north 5mo ago
Location: USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Maybe Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com&#x
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2026)
6 points by jon_north 5mo ago|19 comments
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by jon_north 6mo ago
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total yea
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by jon_north 6mo ago
Location: USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Maybe Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com&#x
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2026)
7 points by jon_north 6mo ago|18 comments
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by jon_north 7mo ago
This seems like a very good idea, not just because of the desire to do human archaeology at times, but also to let further agentic exploration occur. It would be best if it became a separate section of the commit that could just be blank o
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by jon_north 7mo ago
SEEKING WORK - Contract, Remote, USA, backend engineer I am a backend expert, having built and maintained mission critical, low latency and highly available systems for many companies over the last 10 years, in addition to over 20 total yea
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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2026)
5 points by jon_north 7mo ago|25 comments
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by jon_north 7mo ago
Location: USA Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Maybe Expert backend developer primarily focused on data engineering, mission critical/low latency/highly available systems, and AWS (certs: https://www.credly.com&#x
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by jon_north 7mo ago
Yup. I judge by results too. I'm still waiting for that too. I see a whole lot of software created by smart people - as far as I can tell, about the same amount of software they would have created on their own. Open to being wrong! B
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by jon_north 7mo ago
massively underrated comment detected.
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by jon_north 7mo ago
100%. To me the real question is whether all the bother getting the agents to not waste time nets out to real gains, or perceived gains (while possibly even losing efficiency). It's not at all clear to me which is true given the level
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by jon_north 7mo ago
We're talking about people who work really high paying jobs deciding if a tool is worth their time. Why would anyone discuss whether or not people who don't work those jobs should be using those tools, when that isn't part of
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by jon_north 7mo ago
And yet, the average salary of an IT worker in the US is somewhere between 104 and 110k. Since we're discussing coders here, and IT workers tend to be at the lower end of that, maybe there is some context you didn't consider?
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by jon_north 7mo ago
If you make 10k/mo -- which is not that much!, $500 is 5% of revenue. All else held equal, if that helps you go 20% faster, it's an absolute no brainer. The question is.. does it actually help you do that, or do you go 0% faster?
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by jon_north 7mo ago
How could the author write all of that and not talk about actual time savings versus the prior method? I mean, what is the point of change if not to improve? I don't mean "I felt I was more efficient." Feelings aren't
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by jon_north 8mo ago
as a further note, people continue to post to this thread because they want to. Maybe it's worth taking a hint and letting things happen instead of obsessively needing to control them, hm?

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