Hacker News hosts its monthly "Who wants to be hired?" thread for July 2026, where job-seeking individuals can post their location, remote preference, relocation willingness, technologies, résumé, and email. Readers may email posters only for work opportunities, while agencies, recruiters, and job boards are off-topic.
Background
This is a recurring monthly thread on Hacker News (HN), the Y Combinator-owned tech forum. Since the early 2010s, HN has run parallel "Who wants to be hired?" and "Who is hiring?" threads — usually on the 1st of each month. They are a grassroots job market for the tech industry, distinct from LinkedIn or formal job boards. HN threads are famously text-only, self-moderated by community norms, and have no algorithmic ranking. The two third-party search sites linked in the post (nthesis.ai and wantstobehired.com) are unofficial scrapers built to make the raw thread text searchable, since HN's own interface does not index comment bodies well. Y Combinator is the startup accelerator that also created HN; the thread's presence signals that this is a venue favored by startup-minded engineers and employers.