Hacker News 'Who is Hiring?' Jobs Parser

Every job post from the monthly Hacker News "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" threads, parsed into structured fields: company, roles, location, remote / onsite / hybrid, visa sponsorship, salary range, technologies and links — plus the full post text.

Uses the official Hacker News Algolia API. Email addresses and phone numbers in posts are redacted; the hiring company's own links are kept so candidates can apply through official channels.

Use cases

• Job seekers: filter hundreds of startup jobs by rust, remote, Berlin…
• Recruiters / founders: salary & tech-stack trends across months
• Job boards & newsletters: fresh startup jobs each month
• Market research: which technologies startups hire for

Quick start

Press Start with the default input. It parses every post in the latest monthly Ask HN: Who is hiring? thread (usually 200-600 posts) in a few seconds.

Example input:

{
  "months": 3,
  "keywords": ["python", "machine learning"],
  "remoteOnly": true,
  "locations": [],
  "includeFreelancer": false,
  "maxItems": 500,
  "maxCostUsd": 0.5
}

Input

• months – how many monthly threads (1 = latest)
• keywords, locations, remoteOnly
• includeFreelancer – also parse "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" threads
• maxItems
• maxCostUsd – optional spend cap for this run

Output (one item per job post)

{
  "threadTitle": "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)",
  "threadId": "49922569",
  "postId": "49922584",
  "postedAt": "2026-10-01T15:02:37.000Z",
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922584",
  "company": "PrairieLearn (Remote US)",
  "headerLine": "PrairieLearn (Remote US) — Full-Stack Software Engineer — TypeScript / Postgres / React / AI",
  "roles": [
    "Full-Stack Software Engineer"
  ],
  "locationText": "TypeScript / Postgres / React / AI",
  "isRemote": true,
  "isOnsite": false,
  "isHybrid": false,
  "visaSponsorship": null,
  "salaryText": "$100k-$180k",
  "technologies": [
    "ai",
    "aws",
    "llm",
    "node",
    "postgres",
    "react",
    "typescript"
  ],
  "links": [
    "https://www.prairielearn.com",
    "https://github.com/PrairieLearn/PrairieLearn",
    "https://www.prairielearn.com/jobs-ashby?utm_source=YeEJ5MAKk..."
  ],
  "text": "PrairieLearn (Remote US) — Full-Stack Software Engineer — TypeScript / Postgres / React / AI\n\nPrairieLearn (https://www.prairielearn.com) is an open-source assessment platform used by universities across the US (Berkeley, Princeton, Michigan, Illinois, and others). We power mastery-based learning an…",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-22T04:08:59.118924+00:00"
}

Pricing & cost control

• Pay per result: you are charged one post event per post saved to the dataset. The current price per post is shown on the Actor's Pricing tab; platform usage (compute) is included in that price.
• Hard caps, so a run can never surprise you:
  • maxItems stops after N job posts.
  • maxCostUsd (optional) stops cleanly once that many dollars have been charged in this run.
  • Apify's own Maximum cost per run (Run options) is also respected; the Actor stops cleanly and keeps everything saved so far.
• Results that fail (errors, blocked pages, empty inputs) are not charged.

FAQ & limits

• Where does the data come from? The public Hacker News / Algolia API. No login is needed.
• Parsing accuracy: company, roles, location and salary are parsed from the free-text header line, which every poster writes differently. Always keep the text field for anything critical.
• Comments that are replies or were deleted are skipped.
• months goes back one monthly thread per month.