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Seeing this month's "who is hiring" post on HN, I had a fun idea to visualize the data points over the years as I expected them to be a nice visualization of the current market in tech. Earlier this year was the first month ever in which less people posted jobs than wanted to be hired 🫠

Nik Gadermann

@nik.digital

1 July

I do want to highlight that this data might be a bit misleading. The comment counts are obviously very dependent on HN usage itself, so more offers/seekers could just be because more people were using HN. That said, the chart timelines do match the tech sector changes, so make of it what you will.

Nik Gadermann

@nik.digital

The ratio would be "immune" to this, so I think that's the more interesting metric compared to the absolute values (which don't say much). This is just a fun experiment, I'm not a data science wiz :)

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Nik Gadermann

@nik.digital

1 July

Oh and finally, of course I managed to share the wrong image 💀 In 2011 there was a month where there were two who's hiring posts because the automatic script HN used broke, and the chart shows the official (but "wrong") data post. This is the one with the canonical post as a source: