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Show HN: Search Job Openings on the Fediverse
Hey, HN. I've written a bot[1] that eats all submissions to the fediverse (mastodon et.al.) and indexes all that it considers job openings, for a search page.
People can interact with the bot but that's unstable still, so not publicly announced yet.
Please let me know what you think.
[1] https://github.com/Flockingbird/hunter2/ https://github.com/Flockingbird/hunter2/
- berkes 4y agoI think the biggest challenge is to determine what is "a post about a job opening" from "a post asking if anyone knows a job opening". I guess some neural net (BERT) could be trained to figure this out. Or maybe a more classical "bayesian filter": its just a ranking after all (likelyhood of this being a job opening). For now, I chose the most simple solution: just check for certain hashtags. It works surprisingly well. Though it does catch some 20% "false positives": people looking for jobs, and not job openings. I'm also surprised by the amount of cool jobs there. I guess that's mostly due to the niche of people posting on mastodon or the fediverse, though.