Disclosure: I built the Apify Actor linked at the end and charge per result. The raw endpoints below are free and need no key.

Every month a "Who is hiring?" thread appears on Hacker News, with hundreds of job comments. Algolia's public HN API lets you search inside one.

1. Find the latest thread

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date?query=%22Ask%20HN%3A%20Who%20is%20hiring%22&tags=story,author_whoishiring&hitsPerPage=3"

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Checked 2026-10-31: the newest hit was "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)", objectID 49922569.

2. Search its comments

curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=comment,story_49922569&query=remote%20python&hitsPerPage=20"

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Each hit has comment_text (HTML), author , created_at and objectID .

Gotchas

Replace the story id with the one from step 1 each month.

comment_text is HTML; strip tags before display.

Use &page=1 , 2 ...…