benoau20 minutes ago
What is the point of combining "wants to be hired" + "is hiring" into a singular line chart in the first chart?
The bottom chart is dismal, number of jobs declining, number of job searchers growing like crazy, and out of alignment pretty much this whole decade.
- seizethecheese19 minutes ago
  It's a ratio of job seekers to jobs available. This is super relevant to estimate "tightness" of job market. (Obviously this is a simplification because HN isn't a self-contained universe, but it's interesting to see the chart spike so hard.)
seizethecheese25 minutes ago
Higher in the index means more people looking for jobs than job posts.
Pandemic effect is nothing compared to agentic coding.
Blog post on this: https://micjm.com/blog/hn-hiring-index-agent-duel/