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Re: Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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Post by bagels »

nico wrote: post #32
bagels wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it's mostly a critique of those threads as a source. There's no forum to discuss them though. Not here, and the threads discourage feedback about the format. I think folks know there's downward pressure, but I'd rather not anyone have to waste time engaging with employers offering minimum wage for software engineers.

Love the idea of having comments on job listings! It would be amazing! Companies might hate it? Hehe

The Who's Hiring threads do allow you to ask questions, but the YC companies posting jobs threads do not.

Re: Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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azophy_2 wrote: post #40

would be interesting to turn this into something like `npx commandjobs` or `ssh commandjobs.com` so you wouldn't even need to install new software

Love the ideas, especially the ssh one, it's something that I had been fantasizing about

My first year of college, the school had a Telnet-based application to request classes, it would be amazing to build something like that

Any pointers on how to build the npx installer?

Re: Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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Post by nico »

jordinl wrote: post #38
joablen wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve used GPT to estimate compensation for jobs before and got pretty good estimates. I think adding said estimate to the prompt on this app shouldn’t be hard at all and might help

How do you use GPT to estimate salaries?

Not who you were replying to, but

I know of two options:

1) the simplest, is to ask GPT to tell me an estimate for a certain role, at a certain company, at a certain location/area - with the right prompt, and if it can find additional info online, it gives pretty decent guesses

2) if you are willing to code it in multiple checks and steps, you can have GPT help you navigate and scrape listings. For example, the listings in Ask HN usually have very little detail, and no ranges, but a lot of them have links to somewhere else with detailed info, including ranges - or they don't have links, but you can still find the info and ranges their careers page or some other platform

In the second case there's a lot of trial and error, for which GPT could be helpful in navigating with less supervision

Re: Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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Post by cookiemonsieur »

azophy_2 wrote: post #40

would be interesting to turn this into something like `npx commandjobs` or `ssh commandjobs.com` so you wouldn't even need to install new software

I've always wondered how to build SSH based applications. If anyone has any pointers I'd be extremely grateful.

Re: Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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Post by nico »

jordinl wrote: post #39
RyanShook wrote: post #25

This is awesome. I've been looking for a way to scrape Who's Hiring for my site https://200kjobs.com , thanks for sharing.

I'm the author of hnhiring.com, I see you mentioned in another comment. You don't need to scrape Hacker News. You can query Algolia instead: First search for the "Who is hiring post?": https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?query=hiring&re... Note the ID of the first (latest) post and then get the comments: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/39562986

Excellent tip, thank you!

hnhiring.com looks super cool, I'm curious if you have any stats or infographics about the data

have you played with the data and LLMs to try to get some insights?

Re: Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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Post by nico »

cookiemonsieur wrote: post #44
azophy_2 wrote: post #40

would be interesting to turn this into something like `npx commandjobs` or `ssh commandjobs.com` so you wouldn't even need to install new software

I've always wondered how to build SSH based applications. If anyone has any pointers I'd be extremely grateful.

My uninformed understanding, is that you allow people to login into an actual user account within the system, but then you replace their shell (usually you change something like /bin/sh to /usr/bin/ssh_application in the entry for that account within the /etc/passwd file), so when someone logs into that account, instead of running an "open" shell, they get the application instead, and when the application exits, the session ends

So essentially you should be able to create an ssh application with just a shell script

Re: Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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Post by nico »

mfiro wrote: post #45

Very nice project. Thanks for sharing it here. I saw you used beautifulsoup to scrape, but HN has a public API which works great and it doesn't need any token or auth. I recently wrote a minimal wrapper for that: https://github.com/mfiro/hnconnector

Really appreciate it

Super cool wrapper, love the methods that make it super easy to get the content

What would be the best way to for example, get the latest Ask HN: who's hiring page and all it's top level comments?

Thank you

Re: Show HN: Tech jobs on the command line

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Post by jordinl »

nico wrote: post #47
jordinl wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm the author of hnhiring.com, I see you mentioned in another comment. You don't need to scrape Hacker News. You can query Algolia instead: First search for the "Who is hiring post?": https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?query=hiring&re... Note the ID of the first (latest) post and then get the comments: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/39562986

Excellent tip, thank you! hnhiring.com looks super cool, I'm curious if you have any stats or infographics about the data have you played with the data and LLMs to try to get some insights?

There is a trends page at https://hnhiring.com/trends

I only use regexes to extract info. Haven't tried LLMs but that could be useful

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