Arbeitnow vs Hacker News “Who is hiring?”
Short answer
They are close on quality, so it comes down to volume: Arbeitnow carries 668 live listings against 174 for Hacker News “Who is hiring?”.
Measured, side by side
Both boards read continuously over a rolling 30-day window. The bolded figure in each row is the stronger of the two for a job seeker — on description completeness and ghost rate, lower is better.
| Arbeitnow | Hacker News “Who is hiring?” | |
|---|---|---|
| Live listings (30 days) | 668 | 174 |
| Distinct companies | 406 | 174 |
| Pay info in the listing | 11.2% | 19.5% |
| …in a field a machine can read | 0.4% | 0.0% |
| No usable description | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Possible ghost jobs | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Graded A or B by us | 10.8% | 5.2% |
| Genuinely location-free | 1.8% | 2.9% |
Why the two pay columns differ
"Pay info in the listing" asks whether the salary appears anywhere in the posting. "In a field a machine can read" asks whether it sits somewhere a filter can reach. Where those diverge, the board has the number and buries it in prose — you can find it, but only by opening every listing.
We publish both because quoting only the parsed figure would report our own extraction limits as the board's failing.
Read either one on its own
Arbeitnow, measured →
Hacker News “Who is hiring?”, measured →
Other boards we measure: Himalayas, 4 Day Week, Jobicy, We Work Remotely, Real Work From Anywhere