About this project

The Hiring Index is an independent, editorial view of hiring activity derived from the monthly “Who’s Hiring?” threads on Hacker News. It is not affiliated with Y Combinator or Hacker News; it summarizes public thread content for analysis only.

Data moves in four stages: ingest (fetch threads), extract (parse posts), transform (aggregate metrics), publish (write datasets). The repository hn-jobs-pipeline owns ingestion through published JSON; this site (hn-jobs-site) is presentation only: it loads those files at build time and does not scrape or modify upstream data.

Job counts: one row per top-level job post in the monthly thread (after pipeline filtering). Sub-replies are not double-counted as separate jobs.

Compensation: derived from salary or rate text in each post where the pipeline can extract structured numbers; missing or ambiguous compensation is excluded from medians and bands.

Skills: keyword and taxonomy tagging on post text; trends compare shares of mentions month to month, not external market benchmarks.

Geography: inferred from stated location, remote policy, and visa fields when present.

Caveats: parsing can miss or misclassify noisy posts; missing fields are common; figures are descriptive of the thread, not a census of the entire industry.

This project is edited by Adam Tal. The motivation is to make long-running hiring threads easier to read in context: volume, pay, skills, and geography in one place, updated each month.

Display type is set in Fraunces. UI text uses Geist. Numeric and tabular work uses JetBrains Mono. The site is built with Next.js (static export), React, and Recharts for charts—served as static HTML/CSS/JS alongside a Jekyll blog.