HN Who wants to be hired — AI Structured Candidates
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Developer candidates from Hacker News' monthly 'Who wants to be hired?' thread, parsed by AI: role, seniority, years, location, remote/relocation, visa, tech stack, email, résumé, GitHub.
Which monthly threads to search: 'latest' (newest month with data), 'all' (every covered month), or YYYY-MM such as '2026-09'. With onePerPerson, each person appears once, from their most recent post.
[ "latest"][ "all"]Free-text filter over headline, summary and technologies (case-insensitive, matched at word start: 'engineer' matches 'Engineering', 'ML' does not match 'HTML'), e.g. 'data engineer', 'devops', 'founding'.
[ "backend", "platform"]Keep people whose tech_stack contains at least one of these. Exact name match, case-insensitive, aliases unified ('Postgres' = 'PostgreSQL', 'NextJS' = 'Next.js', 'Golang' = 'Go'). For looser search use keywords.
[ "Go", "PostgreSQL"]Matched at word start in the location line, city, country, time zone and remote line, e.g. 'Germany', 'Berlin', 'Europe', 'UTC+1', 'US'. The location line is free text, so add city or country names you care about.
[ "Germany", "Poland", "Europe"]remote_only = wants remote only; remote_or_onsite = also open to office, hybrid or relocation; onsite_only = office only. Empty = all.
[ "remote_or_onsite"]From an explicit title or stated years; many posts don't say, so include 'unspecified' to avoid missing people.
[ "senior", "staff", "unspecified"]Keep people who state at least this many years. People who don't state years (about half) are dropped when this is set.
Keep people who state at most this many years (useful for junior roles). People who don't state years are dropped when this is set.
Job family inferred from the post, e.g. 'data', 'ml_ai', 'devops_infra'.
[ "data", "ml_ai"]Keep people open to at least one of these contract types (when stated).
[ "contract", "freelance"]Keep only people who explicitly say they are willing to relocate.
Drop people who say they need visa sponsorship. People who don't mention visas are kept.
Keep only posts with an email written in plain text (about 70%). Obfuscated addresses are not decoded.
Keep only posts with a résumé/CV link.
Drop people who also posted in an earlier covered month. Keep them (default) if you want people still actively looking.
Keep posts published on or after this date: '2026-09-15' or relative like '7 days'. Applies within the selected months.
When several months are selected, return each HN user once, from their most recent post. Turn off to get every post.
For scheduled runs: return only candidates you haven't received from this Actor with the same filters. IDs are kept in a key-value store named 'hn-who-wants-to-be-hired-state' in your account. With 'latest', the last 2 months are checked.