Hacker News job trends

In plain words

Hacker News job trends is a tool that analyzes job postings from Hacker News to identify hiring patterns and market demand. It tracks which skills, technologies, and roles are most sought after by employers in the tech industry. The tool is designed for job seekers wanting to understand market trends, career planners evaluating skill relevance, and researchers studying the tech labor market. It provides data-driven insights into what employers are actively hiring for.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

• AO
  Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts2018 · letstalkalgorithms.com · ▲301
• HN
  Hacker News Trends2020 · eliot-jones.com · ▲137
• 
  I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of commentsJun 2026 · hackernewstrends.com · ▲822

  Search 18 years of Hacker News and chart how any topic, tool, or person trended. Overlay terms to compare their rise and fall across 45M posts and comments.

• HT
  HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net · ▲355
• WS
  “Who's Hiring” Trends2014 · austinhutchison.com · ▲11
• 
  A site that lets you search and subscribe to “Who is hiring?”2018 · whoishiring.me · ▲255

  Search trough and subscribe to Hacker News

• 
  /dev/null▲472

  a social network for devs

  Dev tools · 2d ago · dev-null.sh

• 
  Whiteboard (YC W26) – an open-source IDE for thoughtful software design▲423

  open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com

• 
  Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things▲411

  Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 25d ago · github.com

• 
  OpenBot▲362

  Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer

  Dev tools · 22d ago · openbot.run

• 
  Talanoa▲340

  Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…

  Dev tools · 20d ago · talanoa.email

• 
  CoreSpeed▲332

  One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools

  Dev tools · 27d ago · corespeed.io

• 
  Browsh – A modern, text-based browser▲967

  A fully interactive, realtime and modern browser rendered to TTY

  Life & fun · 2018 · brow.sh

• 
  Preview Hunt▲921

  🔎Preview and prepare your Product Hunt submission

  Growth · 2018 · previewhunt.com

• 
  Makers by Product Hunt▲816

  A place for Makers to share, connect, and reach their goals

  Work · 2018

• 
  Termtosvg – Record terminal sessions as SVG animations▲767

  Record terminal sessions as SVG animations. Contribute to nbedos/termtosvg development by creating an account on GitHub.

  Dev tools · 2018 · github.com

• 
  Slab▲747

  Modern knowledge base & wiki for teams

  Work · 2018 · slab.com

• 
  Transistor.fm▲644

  Your podcast's hosting and analytics platform 🎙️

  Growth · 2018 · transistor.fm