Someone has built a new job search tool called HN Work that makes it simpler to find tech positions posted on Hacker News Hacker News. The site currently shows 240 jobs hnwork.app.

For more than a decade, Hacker News has hosted a monthly "Who is hiring" thread where companies post open positions. The problem: it's just a long list of posts, stacked one after another with no way to filter by salary, location, or job type. Readers have to scroll through hundreds of entries or use their browser's search function to find what they want. HN Work solves this by adding simple tools like salary filters and job-type sorting—think of it as the difference between a messy pile of index cards and a properly organized filing cabinet Hacker News.

When you visit HN Work, you can search for jobs and use filters to narrow by work type (remote, in-office, hybrid) and salary. The tool pulls key details like pay and location from the original posts and highlights them so you don't have to dig through paragraphs of text. It also removes clutter—spam, posts from people looking for jobs rather than hiring, and listings that don't include contact information hnwork.app.

You can browse jobs without creating an account. If a company wants to post a job, they set up an account and fill out a form with required information like salary range. The site checks that job posters are actually from the company they claim to be from by verifying their email address Hacker News. If you create an account as a job seeker, you can comment on listings Hacker News.

The basic idea is simple and addresses a real problem. The original "Who is hiring" thread hasn't changed much in over a decade, which means it's hard to use. Other people have tried building similar tools before, but this one adds a new twist: verified company accounts and required fields like salary, rather than just scraping the raw posts from Hacker News Hacker News.

One thing to keep in mind: this tool depends entirely on Hacker News's original thread staying active and on the site allowing third-party tools to use its data. Hacker News hasn't formally promised to support tools like this, so the situation could change Hacker News. Also, it's still very new—we don't yet know if it will actually change how companies post jobs or how people search for them.

What's interesting is that a side project like this can compete with much bigger, better-funded sites like LinkedIn and Indeed. It suggests there's still room for simple, straightforward tools that organize information in ways that big platforms haven't bothered to do.