HN Who's Hiring AI Infrastructure Extractor

Extract AI Infrastructure, LLMOps, MLOps, GPU, Kubernetes, cloud, and platform engineering job signals from Hacker News Who's Hiring threads.

What It Does

This Actor finds recent Hacker News "Who is hiring?" threads, fetches public comments from each thread, scores each job-like comment for AI infrastructure relevance, and outputs clean structured records.

It is built for deterministic, low-cost job intelligence. It does not use browser automation, proxies, paid APIs, local LLMs, or personal-data enrichment.

Why this Actor

Generic HN scrapers return raw comments. This Actor focuses specifically on AI infrastructure, LLMOps, MLOps, GPU, Kubernetes, platform, SRE, cloud, and data-platform roles.

It extracts structured job records from unstructured HN Who's Hiring comments and adds company, role, location, remote type, seniority, salary, detected skills, role families, AI infrastructure score, confidence, and whyItMatches. The differentiation is stronger because HN Who's Hiring has fewer specialized AI-infra-focused Actors than broad job-board sources.

Who It Is For

• Recruiters and sourcers tracking AI infrastructure hiring demand.
• Founders and operators mapping LLMOps, MLOps, GPU, Kubernetes, and platform engineering markets.
• Developers searching for AI infrastructure jobs on Hacker News.
• Job board builders enriching public hiring posts with structured metadata.
• Analysts comparing role families, locations, and infrastructure skills across hiring threads.

Example Use Cases

• AI infrastructure job research.
• Recruiting and sourcing for platform, MLOps, LLMOps, GPU, and SRE roles.
• Market mapping for LLMOps and MLOps roles.
• Personal job search across recent Hacker News hiring posts.
• Job board enrichment with role families, skills, seniority, remote type, and source URLs.

Input

{
  "monthsBack": 6,
  "maxThreads": 6,
  "maxItems": 250,
  "minFitScore": 40,
  "includeGenericInfra": true,
  "includeDevOpsSre": true,
  "includeDataPlatform": true,
  "locations": [],
  "keywords": [
    "AI infrastructure",
    "LLMOps",
    "MLOps",
    "GPU",
    "CUDA",
    "Kubernetes",
    "inference",
    "model serving",
    "RAG",
    "vector database",
    "Ray",
    "vLLM",
    "Terraform",
    "platform engineer",
    "SRE"
  ]
}

Input Fields

• monthsBack: Number of recent months to search, from 1 to 36.
• maxThreads: Maximum monthly Who's Hiring threads to inspect, from 1 to 24.
• maxItems: Maximum output records, from 1 to 1000.
• minFitScore: Minimum AI infrastructure score, from 0 to 100.
• includeGenericInfra: Include broader platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure matches.
• includeDevOpsSre: Include DevOps and SRE signals.
• includeDataPlatform: Include data platform signals such as Spark, Kafka, Airflow, warehouses, and lakehouses.
• locations: Optional location filters. Leave empty to include all locations.
• keywords: Custom keywords to match alongside the built-in deterministic classifier.

Output Example

{
  "source": "hacker-news",
  "recordType": "who_is_hiring_job_comment",
  "threadId": "48747976",
  "threadTitle": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)",
  "threadUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747976",
  "commentId": "48750000",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750000",
  "author": "example_user",
  "createdAt": "2026-07-01T16:20:00Z",
  "text": "ExampleCo | Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer | Remote US | Kubernetes, GPU inference, model serving, Terraform | Salary: $170k - $230k",
  "company": "ExampleCo",
  "roleTitles": ["Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer"],
  "locationRaw": "Remote US",
  "remoteType": "remote",
  "seniority": "senior",
  "salaryRaw": "Salary: $170k - $230k",
  "detectedSkills": ["Kubernetes", "GPU", "Terraform"],
  "roleFamilies": ["ai_infrastructure", "gpu_platform", "kubernetes_platform", "cloud_infrastructure"],
  "aiInfraScore": 95,
  "confidence": "high",
  "whyItMatches": "Mentions AI infrastructure, GPU, model serving, Kubernetes, and Terraform.",
  "matchedKeywords": ["AI infrastructure", "GPU", "model serving", "Kubernetes", "Terraform"]
}

Suggested Pricing

Suggested starting price: $3 per 1,000 scored job records using Apify Pay Per Event / default dataset item pricing.

Source Freshness

This Actor depends on public Hacker News Who's Hiring threads and Hacker News Algolia availability. Output volume and freshness vary by month and by how many relevant hiring comments are present.

Suggested public tasks

• Extract AI Infrastructure Jobs from HN Who's Hiring
• Find LLMOps and MLOps Jobs on Hacker News
• Track GPU, Kubernetes, and Platform Engineering Roles on HN

Data Source And Disclaimer

This Actor is unofficial. It is not affiliated with Hacker News, Y Combinator, or Algolia.

It uses publicly accessible Hacker News search data from the public Algolia-powered Hacker News API.

Limitations

• Classification is heuristic and deterministic, not LLM-based.
• Hacker News comments are unstructured, so company, role, salary, and location extraction are best-effort.
• Not all job posts provide salary or location.
• The Actor does not perform personal-data enrichment.
• The Actor is not affiliated with Hacker News, Y Combinator, or Algolia.

Changelog

v0.1

• Initial release.