GoKawiilHacker News runs October 2026 'Who wants to be hired?' thread
Hacker News posted its recurring monthly 'Ask HN' thread for job-seeking developers and tech professionals to list their location, remote preferences, skills, and contact details. The post restricts participation to individuals personally seeking work, explicitly excluding recruiters, agencies, and job boards. It also points readers to two third-party tools, nthesis.ai and wantstobehired.com, that aggregate past postings for searching.
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These recurring threads function as an informal, community-moderated job board that bypasses traditional recruiting channels, giving engineers direct visibility to hiring managers browsing Hacker News. The emergence of dedicated search tools built around this format suggests demand for easier ways to mine these crowdsourced listings has grown enough to justify separate products.
- Hacker News hosts a monthly thread for job seekers to self-post qualifications and contact info.
- Recruiters and agencies are explicitly barred from participating in the thread.
- Third-party sites now exist specifically to search archives of these hiring threads.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, 2026-10-01
Published there as: “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)”
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