Hacker News hiring trends
HN job seekers 1.78 per job ad, last good reading Oct 2026. HN job seekers per job post. Hacker News hiring trends and the other weird recession indicators are on one page, each with its latest reading.
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Each month Hacker News posts two threads: "Who is hiring?" (one comment per job ad) and "Who wants to be hired?" (one per person). This divides the comments on the second by the comments on the first.
Counts include replies, so they are rough. Threads keep growing for a few weeks, so the headline uses the newest month whose threads are at least 7 days old. Source: the HN Algolia search API.
Source: HN Algolia. Last good reading Oct 2026.