My last post counted the demand side of Hacker News hiring threads: native iOS and Android mentions fell by about two thirds between 2023 and 2026. The first post left one question open: what happened on the other side. Hacker News runs a second monthly thread, "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired?", where people post what they do and what they look for. If hiring posts shrank, did seekers shrink with them?

They did not. I counted both threads for the same 46 months. Same caveat as before: keyword mentions are not roles, and HN is one corner of the market.

What the counts say

Average top-level posts per thread that mention each term, 2023 H1 (six threads) against 2026 H2 so far (four threads, July to October).…