Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
- ID
- 31190
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 01 Oct 2026, 11:02 PM
- Fetched
- 02 Oct 2026, 11:50 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49922569
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 4.0
- Created
- 02 Oct 2026, 11:51 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersai_ml_learners
What happened
The October 2026 'Ask HN: Who is hiring?' thread (238 points, 232 comments, posted 2026-10-01) is Hacker News' monthly job-post roundup, with rules requiring posters to state location, mark REMOTE or ONSITE, and post only if they personally work at the hiring company. Visible listings include Fredrin, an 'AI software factory' that runs many coding agents in parallel from one Kanban board (each ticket getting its own branch, worktree, and agent session), hiring Forward Deployed Engineers in Los Angeles with REMOTE at $150k-$250k and requiring TypeScript, deep Git/worktree knowledge, and hands-on AI coding agent experience; and Estee Lauder Companies hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer in Long Island City, NY on a hybrid, full-time basis. The post also lists third-party mirrors and search tools for the thread, including hnwork.app, nthesis.ai/public/hn-who-is-hiring, and dheerajck.github.io/hnwhoishiring.
Why it matters
This is a job feed, not news, so the useful action is filtering: read the REMOTE tags literally, because Fredrin's post says plain REMOTE while other posters write REMOTE (US) or similar when the country is restricted, which is the difference between a role you can apply to and one you cannot. The skill bar in the top listing is also a signal worth noting — it asks for Git worktrees and multi-agent session handling rather than ML research, so if you've been running coding agents on side projects, that experience is now an explicit hiring requirement. Nothing in this text is Malaysia-specific; treat it as a general remote-role pool.
Discussion angle
Pull up two or three posts from the thread live and compare what they actually ask for — does 'hands-on experience with AI coding agents' plus 'deep practical knowledge of Git and worktrees' describe work you've done, and what would you have to build in public this month to be credible for it?