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Hacker News “Who is hiring?”, measured

We ingest Hacker News “Who is hiring?” continuously and score every listing. Over the last 30 days that is 174 live listings from 174 companies. Here is what those listings actually contain — not what the board says about itself.

Last measured 5 October 2026

Will you find out what the job pays?

19.5% of listings carry pay information somewhere
0.0% put it in a field a machine can read

That ranks Hacker News “Who is hiring?” 11 of 14 boards we read. The best is Getro at 67.4%; the weakest is JustRemote at 9.4%. The median across every board is 38.3%.

The gap matters here. Hacker News “Who is hiring?” has pay information in 19.5% of listings but exposes it in a readable field only 0.0% of the time — a 19.5-point difference. The salary is usually there; it is buried in prose, so no filter can reach it and you cannot compare two roles without opening both.

Will the listing tell you what the job is?

Yes, reliably. Effectively every live Hacker News “Who is hiring?” listing arrives with a real description, so you can judge the role before spending time on an application.

How the listings score

5.2% graded A or B by our scorer
0.0% flagged as a possible ghost job
2.9% genuinely location-free

Our A–F grade reads pay transparency, description depth, freshness, remote clarity, role specificity and corroboration, minus a ghost-job penalty. Every graded listing on this site publishes its own breakdown, so you can see why any individual posting scored what it did.

Against every other board

BoardPay infoNo descriptionLive
Getro 67.4% 32.6% 43
We Work Remotely 62.4% 0.0% 258
Real Work From Anywhere 58.3% 0.0% 108
Jobicy 56.7% 0.0% 1,380
Himalayas 45.9% 0.0% 5,267
Y Combinator Jobs 45.6% 0.0% 79
The Muse 40.0% 0.0% 45
Employer career pages (direct) 36.5% 50.8% 63
RemoteOK 31.1% 0.0% 61
4 Day Week 30.1% 48.9% 1,484
Hacker News “Who is hiring?” 19.5% 0.0% 174
NoDesk 12.2% 82.9% 41
Arbeitnow 11.2% 0.0% 668
JustRemote 9.4% 0.0% 64

Method, and a disclosure

Every figure is computed from the listings themselves over a rolling 30-day window, not from board marketing. A board needs at least 40 live listings before we publish a number about it. A listing counts as having no usable description when its body is empty or boilerplate once HTML is stripped.

We run a remote job board too, built partly from these same sources. We are not a neutral party, which is exactly why the method sits next to every number instead of a verdict — you can check any of this against Hacker News “Who is hiring?” yourself.

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