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Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data
Hi HN!
A few days ago I saw a graph[0] that showed the # of job postings on HN was declining. I started wondering what other trends I could glean from the data, so I created this!
You can filter through the top level comments by keyword; for example you can filter by "remote" to see the massive spike around March 2020. Another interesting thing I found is that I can compare hiring across cities.
I hope you enjoy! I made it so that the links to your search are sharable so if you have some interesting data you should be able to just link the page you're on!
[0] https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2023/the-tech-downturn-seen-through-hacker-news-comments.html https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2023/the-tech-downturn-seen-th...
- comfypotato 4y agoFiltering by “remote” shows a very different picture.
- phneutral26 4y agoIf you filter for "Remote" in both looking and hiring, you can see a decline in people looking for those Remote Jobs, whilst the Hiring front skyrocketed. Overcompensation/adaptation at its best.
- sberens 4y agoActually I just realized because the "looking" comment format includes "remote: ", filtering by "remote" doesn't do much. You should filter by "remote: yes" if you want to see people who want to be hired remote. I was thinking of preventing this using semantic search with OpenAI's embeddings, but I realized that the total size of the embedded comments would be around 2GB, which most people probably do not want to download.
- deeg 4y agoVery nice! Could you perhaps add a third data point, which is total number of comments on HN? That would help indicate how much of the variability is due to overall traffic.
- sberens 4y agoThanks! Yeah, I'm working on adding an option to normalize everything by some measure of activity around each data point.
- tombrm 4y agoAwesome project! I've been doing something similar with all "software engineer" job posts for the last 10 months: https://devquarterly.com/insights/trends https://devquarterly.com/insights/trends Interesting to see the trends on YC are pretty much the same as they are on linkedin, indeed and glassdoor.
- sberens 4y agoReally cool! FYI, the labels in the x-axis for the first two charts overlap with each other for me. https://pasteboard.co/4ts0uaUQopxJ.png https://pasteboard.co/4ts0uaUQopxJ.png
- tombrm 4y agothanks:) I'll fix it in the morning.
- gigantino 4y agoI absolutely love it! You are missing Switzerland though which probably has the most interesting programming landscape in Europe.
- agolio 4y agoVery cool project. A little feedback: Something is off with the graph when I try to use multitouch gestures. May need to adjust the call in whichever javascript library to disable zoom if that is desired, or correct some parameter. I might find it easier to read if there were fewer x major ticks, so one per year for instance. But overall very nice. Simple and to-the-point data visualisation without bloat
- sberens 4y agoAh thanks for pointing that out! I'll see if I can fix it. Edit: should be fixed!
- coding123 4y agoWe have more looking than hiring for the first time, ugh.
- soneca 4y agoWhen did you scrape March data?
- OJFord 4y agoNice! If you could make the vertical axis (at least) toggleable lin/log, I wonder if the 'hiring freelancer' overlaid on the default hiring/looking lines might be more interesting (as it is it's dwarfed by them, so appears almost y=0).
- hummus_bae 4y ago[dead]
- pcthrowaway 4y agoThe march data looks wrong? You show <400 hiring and the Who's hiring has 535 comments (though maybe it's only counting top-level by people who are actually hiring)
- sberens 4y agoYeah it only counts top level comments
- bmo333 4y agoWhy was there so many hired during Covid? I still don’t get it.