8 years of "Who's Hiring?" in charts (hiring boom, bust, and AI trends)
Strong launch
Beat 79% of Show HN launches that day
#32 of 188 on Nov 3
#2 of 2 HR, Jobs & Recruiting launches on Show HN on Nov 3. 9.1% of HR, Jobs & Recruiting launches (1 of 11) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See HR, Jobs & Recruiting →
points · traction gained Nov 9, 10:27 UTC → Nov 10, 10:45 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+
Traction frozen — tracking ended at 163h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.
comments
listed Nov 3, 16:07 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 4points
- Comments
- 1
- Rank in HIRE this week
- —not listed in the last 7 days
- Rank overall this week
- —
- Sector hit rate
- 9.1%1/11 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 4Nov 4, 21:23 UTC
- Last reading
- 4Nov 10, 10:45 UTC
- Readings
- 7over 163h
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Top on Nov 3 · 188 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1HackerTVHN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels488 points
- #2Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News475 points
- #3Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie127 points
- #4KairosOpen-source risk and fraud decisioning platform107 points
- #5I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands72 points
More in HR, Jobs & Recruiting · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- Every Job in the Observability Space8 points0
- Software Job Title Family Tree2 points0
- IIoTjobA job board for industrial automation, OT, and IIoT2 points▲ +2
- We built an async interview engine to get published on HackerNoon1 points0
- 37% of open jobs on company career sites were posted over 3+ months ago1 points0
Grades · each graded against other HR, Jobs & Recruiting launches from the same source
Momentum
——
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Not re-read in the latest run, so no recent gain
Velocity
A0.08 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 81% · vs 51 HR, Jobs & Recruiting · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
——
Comments per 10 points
Needs 10+ points; below that the ratio is mostly noise
Staying Power
——
Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Needs 10+ points and readings from two runs
Launch-day race · #32 of 188 Show HN launches on 2026-11-03
- #30Confetti5 points
- #31DrawDB5 points
- #328 years of "Who's Hiring?" in charts (hiring boom, bust, and AI trends)4 points
- #33How to Disable Google AI Overview4 points
- #34Rigorix, Execution governance for AI agents, open-source engine4 points
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