Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
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#2Crazy, didn't know that React is so important! Well done!
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#3Nice work, OP. Looking at the graph, I sure hope we did not hit "Peak HN" in Q2 2023.
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#4I really like the graph at the 'what javascript frameworks are in demand?' part. Any insight to share about that?
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#5Surprised to see Redux featured so prominent in JS frameworks section, since it is so often criticized while many praise newer competitors like Zustand.
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#6I wonder how this would compare against a random sample of jobs on, say, Indeed or LinkedIn. My experience of Hacker News is that it’s a very biased group (in a good way) to the general industry.
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#7> Using Selenium, I used a script to google iteratively for strings query = f"ask hn who is hiring {month} {year}" to get the IDs of the items that represent the monthly threads.
FYI, you could've just used the hackernews API, and get all posts by the user `whoishiring`, which submits all these who is hiring posts. And then filter out only the posts where the title starts with "Ask HN: Who is hiring?", as this bot also submits the 'Who wants to be hired?' and 'Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer?' posts.
https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/whoishiring.json?...
Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
#8Nice work, OP. Looking at the graph, I sure hope we did not hit "Peak HN" in Q2 2023.
IMHO, I believe the peak was due to a combination of Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) and the pandemic, both of which have faded out this year. Elon Musk's highly publicized firing of a big part of the Twitter work force also set a precedent for lay-offs in the industry. But I am still optimistic that we will many such peaks ahead of us.
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#9I wonder how this would compare against a random sample of jobs on, say, Indeed or LinkedIn. My experience of Hacker News is that it’s a very biased group (in a good way) to the general industry.
I've heard that many of the jobs posted on general jobs boards like that are never intended to result in a hire. They are posted when the company already knows who they are going to hire, but are legally obligated to post the position, or when the company wants to manufacture evidence that "no qualified candidates" could be found locally.
Re: Insights from over 10,000 comments on "Ask HN: Who Is Hiring" using GPT-4o
#10> Using Selenium, I used a script to google iteratively for strings query = f"ask hn who is hiring {month} {year}" to get the IDs of the items that represent the monthly threads. FYI, you could've just used the hackernews API, and get all posts by the user `whoishiring`, which submits all these who is hiring posts. And then filter out only the posts where the title starts with "Ask HN: Who is hiring?", as this bot al…
This makes just so much sense and would spare me 65 lines of code. Thank you!