Tool
Tech Hiring Radar
A scraper that reads Hacker News' monthly "Who is hiring?" threads and turns hundreds of unstructured job postings into a live snapshot of what the market is actually asking for.
What it does
Every month, Hacker News runs an "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread where companies post openings as top-level comments. This tool fetches that thread, parses every posting, and aggregates it into hiring-market signals — refreshed every 6 hours.
- •Pulls the latest 'Who is hiring?' thread straight from Hacker News (Algolia HN Search API)
- •Parses every top-level posting out of the comment tree — no manual copy-paste
- •Ranks the most-mentioned technologies by share of postings, not raw keyword count
- •Flags remote-friendly and visa-sponsorship postings
- •Tracks posting volume across the last 6 months to show hiring momentum
Stack
Latest thread: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
261
Postings
56%
Remote-friendly
7%
Visa sponsorship
6
Threads analyzed
Most in-demand technologies
Share of postings mentioning each technology, this thread
Posting volume, last 6 months
Source: Hacker News "Who is hiring?" threads, fetched via the public Algolia HN Search API. Technology mentions are matched with a curated keyword list, so niche or misspelled stacks may be undercounted.