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- HN Match Maker is an AI matchmaking service that pairs Hacker News 'Who is Hiring' job postings with 'Who Wants to Be Hired' posts, pre-scoring every match and explaining it by individual signals.
- As of September 2026, the platform lists 105 jobs, 130 candidates, and 580 total matches drawn from the HN monthly threads.
- Featured employers span startups to major tech firms, including Uncountable ($130k–$220k full-stack), Fastly, Sourcegraph, Boom Supersonic ($180k–$225k), Quobyte, and Discord.
- Salary ranges vary sharply across postings, from Quobyte's $50k–$100k for systems engineering in Berlin to Discord's $280k–$330k for a Senior Application Security engineer in San Francisco, with Amplify Renewables topping out at $200k–$375k for a quantitative researcher.
- The listings are heavily weighted toward AI/ML hiring, including Tufalabs (LLM pre/post-training in Zurich), Yahoo! Search (ML engineers, engineering managers), Runway, Chariot Claims, and Brilliant.org's AI tutoring infrastructure.
- Mission-driven and frontier-tech employers also surface, including Wikimedia Foundation (remote Lead Product Manager, Security), Oklo (advanced nuclear fission software), Apex Space (spacecraft engineering in LA), and Monumental (autonomous construction robotics in Amsterdam).
- Roles cover remote, hybrid, and onsite work across the US (NYC, SF, Denver, Brooklyn), Europe (Berlin, Amsterdam, Zurich, Stockholm, Netherlands), and remote-US/EU positions, spanning junior through principal levels.
Why it matters: HN's monthly hiring threads are notoriously noisy — hundreds of posts that job-seekers must skim by hand. By pre-scoring every job-candidate pair and showing the signal breakdown, HN Match Maker compresses that manual filtering into a ranked shortlist, with the highest-value opportunity for senior AI/ML and security candidates where salaries reach $280k–$375k.
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