using Llama 3.1 70B, FP16**
We extended Tamer Çomcuoğlu's initial analysis of Ask HN “Who is hiring” by examining data from 2011 to August 2024. Our goal was to uncover long-term trends and provide deeper insights into the job market dynamics within the Hacker News community.
Disclaimer: we are co-founders of EXXA and performed this case study to both provide valuable insights into the tech job market and demonstrate the value of our solution. At EXXA we provide a batch inference API at a 50-90% discount compared to other providers leveraging unused GPUs from data centers during off-peak hours.
After peaking between 2018 and 2021, job postings on HackerNews have decreased by ~54%, averaging around 320 jobs posted per month in 2024.
In 2024, 79% of job offerings are either remote or hybrid, underscoring a lasting shift in work arrangements since COVID-19. However, the share of remote positions has decreased since 2022 in favor of hybrid role.
Job offerings that include visa sponsorship declined from around 10% before 2020 to about 6% since 2021.
Companies have never been more open about salary ranges (see more here).
Who’s winning the tech battles? We analyzed mentions of various technologies to see which are on the rise and which are fading (find out below who is winning)
🥊 React vs. Angular vs. vue vs. svelte
🥊 Pytorch vs. Tensorflow
🥊 SQL vs. noSQL
🥊 And many more “battles”