GetHNJobs

GetHNJobs is a search engine for Hacker News Who Is Hiring threads. Every month, Hacker News runs a pinned thread where companies post open positions, and within days it accumulates hundreds or thousands of comments. Finding the right role in that wall of text means scrolling through everything, using browser search, and hoping you don't miss the one post that actually fits. GetHNJobs pulls those threads apart, structures the data into a searchable database, and lets you filter down to what you actually want in about a minute. If you've ever wasted an hour scrolling through a hiring thread and still felt like you might have missed something, this is the tool that fixes that problem. It does the extraction work you'd otherwise have to do manually.

The database currently indexes over 139,000 posts across roughly 1,400 hiring threads spanning years of monthly postings. Updates happen regularly, with the most recent sync adding dozens of new positions from the latest thread. That depth means you can search not just the current month but years of historical posts. If you're researching salary trends, tracking which companies hire often, or looking for niche roles that don't appear every month, having access to the full archive is useful. You can see patterns that wouldn't be visible from a single thread. It's the kind of historical data that would take hours to compile manually if you tried to do it yourself.

Filtering is where the value shows up. You can narrow by role type, technology stack, remote policy, compensation range, location, visa sponsorship, employment type, and whether equity is offered. If you're a backend engineer looking for fully remote positions at startups that use Python and pay above 150 thousand dollars, you can get that exact list without scanning comments manually. Technology filters cover more than twenty stacks including AI, Rust, Go, React, Kubernetes, and others that show up frequently in Hacker News job posts. The filtering isn't fuzzy either. Results match your criteria directly rather than surfacing adjacent listings you didn't ask for. If you specify a technology, you get jobs that actually mention it.

For passive job seekers, the site offers daily alerts. You save a custom query, and GetHNJobs monitors new threads for posts that match. When something appears, you get an email. The system explicitly promises no spam, just a notification when a fresh listing fits your criteria. You can pause alerts anytime without losing your saved query. That makes it useful for people who aren't actively applying every day but want to know when the right opportunity shows up without having to check manually or remember to revisit the site each month. The alert goes out when there's something new, not on a fixed schedule that sends empty updates.

Each result links back to the original Hacker News comment, so you can see the full context and reply directly if the company accepts applications that way. The site doesn't sit between you and the employer. It surfaces what's already public in the threads and saves you the extraction work. If a listing includes an email address or application link, you follow that directly. There's no application tracking or intermediary layer, just a faster way to find listings. You're still applying the same way you would if you found the post by scrolling, you just found it faster.

The target audience is tech job seekers who already pay attention to Hacker News and trust the quality of companies that post there. That tends to mean startups, smaller engineering teams, and companies with a developer focused culture. It's a narrower scope than LinkedIn or Indeed, but for the right searcher, that's a feature. The quality of job postings on Hacker News tends to be higher because the community filters out generic listings, and GetHNJobs inherits that quality by indexing only those threads. Category pages exist for specific slices like AI and ML roles, remote first positions, and visa friendly employers, making it easy to jump straight to a relevant subset without building the filter yourself.

Pricing isn't disclosed prominently, but the search and filter tools work without an account or payment. Alerts may have usage limits for free users, though that's not specified on the homepage. The site has been running long enough to accumulate a substantial archive, which suggests stability. For anyone who has scrolled through a Who Is Hiring thread and wished they could just filter it like a real job board, GetHNJobs does exactly that. It turns an unstructured wall of text into a searchable, filterable resource that respects your time and surfaces jobs you'd otherwise miss.