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Ask HN: When will “Who is Hiring?” be posted? It's past 9am Eastern

19 points by bayonetz 11y ago

JshWright 11y ago
It was posted at 10am last month. The hour shift might be accounted for by the fact that DST started in the US between the March and April posts.
- _whoishiring 11y ago
  Well, 10:01. Shall I ? Posted.
deleted 11y ago
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- JshWright 11y ago
  How about we give it at least an hour to see if the same thing happens as last month and the real thread is posted an hour late?
- mziel 11y ago
  Flagged? Not sure what happened.
  - gallamine 11y ago
    I think there's a "WhoIsHiring" official user and and "__WhoIsHiring" fake user.
herge 11y ago
Yeah, between whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring and _whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=_whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=_whoishiring I'm not sure who to follow.
- _whoishiring 11y ago
  I think that the original account is having DST confusion. It was an hour late last month. If it doesn't show up in 28 minutes, I'll post the thread. PS. Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?
  - herge 11y ago
    It would be great if the mods could take this over, it's a really useful part of hacker news.
  - JacobAldridge 11y ago
    It probably warrants it by now. As I understand it, access to the automated script and account has been sent through though before dang took on his role: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828
  - gus_massa 11y ago
    If you need to summon the mods, you can write to hn@ycombinator.com . They usually see most of the threads, but it's impossible to real all of them all the time. So the reply to the email is faster.
  - eatitraw 11y ago
    > PS. Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no? Isn't it already (semi-)official? > An account named whoishiring is the only one allowed to submit the regular threads. This prevents a race to post them first. From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
  - dang 11y ago
    > Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no? Yup. I love that whoishiring started as a user's creation and that it lasted so long as the most informal possible thing, but people have come to depend on these posts.
bayonetz 11y ago
the _whoishiring was a fill in last month since the normal bot didn't come alive for whatever reason.
- heliodor 11y ago
  It did post last month, but late (by US time), and it skipped the who-is-hiring thread because the fill-in was already heavily used by that time. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring Notice it posts three things every month. In April, it posted two as to not create confusion. It's ability to skip one of the three posts seems pretty human to me.
bayonetz 11y ago
Seemed worthwhile to post so people sitting there hitting refresh could take a break

19 points by bayonetz 11y ago

It was posted at 10am last month. The hour shift might be accounted for by the fact that DST started in the US between the March and April posts.

_whoishiring 11y ago
Well, 10:01. Shall I ? Posted.

deleted 11y ago

[deleted]

JshWright 11y ago
How about we give it at least an hour to see if the same thing happens as last month and the real thread is posted an hour late?
mziel 11y ago
Flagged? Not sure what happened.
- gallamine 11y ago
  I think there's a "WhoIsHiring" official user and and "__WhoIsHiring" fake user.

herge 11y ago

Yeah, between whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring and _whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=_whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=_whoishiring I'm not sure who to follow.

_whoishiring 11y ago
I think that the original account is having DST confusion. It was an hour late last month. If it doesn't show up in 28 minutes, I'll post the thread. PS. Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?
- herge 11y ago
  It would be great if the mods could take this over, it's a really useful part of hacker news.
- JacobAldridge 11y ago
  It probably warrants it by now. As I understand it, access to the automated script and account has been sent through though before dang took on his role: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828
- gus_massa 11y ago
  If you need to summon the mods, you can write to hn@ycombinator.com . They usually see most of the threads, but it's impossible to real all of them all the time. So the reply to the email is faster.
- eatitraw 11y ago
  > PS. Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no? Isn't it already (semi-)official? > An account named whoishiring is the only one allowed to submit the regular threads. This prevents a race to post them first. From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
- dang 11y ago
  > Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no? Yup. I love that whoishiring started as a user's creation and that it lasted so long as the most informal possible thing, but people have come to depend on these posts.

bayonetz 11y ago

the _whoishiring was a fill in last month since the normal bot didn't come alive for whatever reason.

heliodor 11y ago
It did post last month, but late (by US time), and it skipped the who-is-hiring thread because the fill-in was already heavily used by that time. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring Notice it posts three things every month. In April, it posted two as to not create confusion. It's ability to skip one of the three posts seems pretty human to me.

bayonetz 11y ago

Seemed worthwhile to post so people sitting there hitting refresh could take a break