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Ask HN: Don't paginate Who's Hiring thread
Can we turn off pagination on the Who's Hiring post? It makes search much less useful. The search tool linked from the post only searches a single page.
- detaro 9y agoSince no user can change this, its best to e-mail those that could: > Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Instead, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com. (from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
- cottonseed 9y agoThanks for pointing this out. Emailed.
- cottonseed 9y agoI got the following reply from hn@ycombinator.com: > Unfortunately those are the threads where we need pagination most because they overwhelm the server otherwise. It's temporary, though—we're working on a long term fix for this. In the meantime HN runs on a single core, so we have to use every trick we can. Sorry for the inconvenience - I know it's annoying!
- otp124 9y agoI’m impressed that it runs so well on a single core. Has HN posted traffic stats in the past?
- rsyring 9y agoVery helpful post, even if it was done wrongly. I was just wondering why I couldn't find my comment on this months thread. Didn't realize it was paginated.
- thesmallestcat 9y agoRelated, Here's a script I wrote a year ago when I was looking for a position pretty aggressively. Used like `python hiring.py [-l LOC] [-s SKILL] [-o OTHER] *.html`, where you've saved each page to your cwd. It outputs the comments that have at least one of the specified skills, locations, and others, which is really just a dumb substring test for each. Specify however many of each. Thoughtbot and the guy who demands a format for his job site (don't know if he's still here) are excluded by hardcoded `EXCLUDED`. Sorted by date descending. You have to paginate quickly when saving the HTML files of course, so that time/votes don't shift the pages. It's not pretty, especially robust, or meant to impress anybody; I wrote it in a hurry. Requires Python 2.6-2.7 (haven't tested in Python 3) and lxml. https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2cc6184ede4348a7233052d10e922274 https://gist.github.com/anonymous/2cc6184ede4348a7233052d10e...
- ISL 9y agoAgreed. I always forget the pagination and simply ctrl+F for "physics" and "Seattle" and act accordingly. If there are no hits of interest, then I move on.
- cutcss 9y agoI just created this JavaScript script that you can paste in your browser console (F12) to fetch all comments from all pages (using AJAX); just execute it before the search script. Cheers. https://gist.github.com/Ivanca/ba60581bdd2c9023a7ea1ecdaef366cc https://gist.github.com/Ivanca/ba60581bdd2c9023a7ea1ecdaef36...
- cortesoft 9y agoThe 'whose hiring' thread already includes instructions on how to search the whole thing in the post body.
- reustle 9y agoIf you're really interested in digging into the Who's Hiring posts on HN, check out https://whoishiring.io https://whoishiring.io It scrapes the HN whos hiring posts and makes it easier to sift through.
- spraak 9y agoIt's not really easier, though. It makes it really hard to scan visually for key words because only the title/company/location is visible, until you click the box to reveal the post detail. In the 'native' HN view, I can scan the whole post quickly and decide if I want to move on or investigate further.