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Where do people that visit Hacker News go to search for jobs?

I realize we're in a community of entrepreneurs but better access to the talent that hangs out around here would be a tremendous resource for hiring managers.

Written out of frustration after spending 2 weeks sifting through bad resumes and monotonous interviews.

https://www.google.com/adplanner/#siteSearch?identifier=news.ycombinator.com&geo=US&trait_type=1&lp=false

Another interesting statistic: 100% of us all went to "some college" or beyond?

Despite 33.8% of HN following @fredwilson http://searchyc.com/fred+wilson shows up only 302 results, in contrast with searching for "invest" - 24919 and "venture capital" - 1164, "angel" - 3856 or "37 Signals" - 2763.

Does hackers really get their most followed VC? If not, why?

Links http://jmillerinc.com/2010/07/28/twitter-users-most-followed-by-readers-of-hacker-news/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1555866

I was just tweeting about how I would like recommendations for academic papers to read, and thought it would certainly have been a previous topic here at HN [1]. The problem was actually finding it.

Then it hit me. There's no real way to browse Hacker News archives. Hacker News is a great resource for entrepreneurs and people with a curious brain - every day there's brilliant insight inside these posts. Insight that will certainly be lost if ways to index/browse/search the archives aren't implemented. Google isn't a big help here either, because it doesn't index content based on relevance (which could theoretically be internally extracted from post attention data and votes).

I'm quite sure I'm not the only one missing this piece of "functionality", and I'd like to see a discussion around finding old topics. How could a HN archive be implemented? Would there be interest?

[1] - Turns out it really was a topic, for the curious: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059478

I often don't del.icio.us stuff I read on Hacker News because I know where I read it and it pops into my "saved stories" page. However, after being here for a while it's getting increasingly hard to find stuff I want later.

Any chance of a search within your saved stories?

For the past 6 months, I completely abandoned Delicious for Hacker News. I figured the history of my upvotes was basically a replacement for what Delicious was offering me. Someday I figured I would write an app to search my HN history for good material. However, I just realized that I only have access to the past 7 pages' worth of upvotes (210 in total).

I have been losing links I thought were saved! I wrote this mashup extension as a quick solution that enables me to keep a permanent record of links I like here on Hacker News.

The extension works by popping up a save form every time you upvote. I plan to make it more subtle over time, but in the spirit of lean product design, I plan to live with this for a few days and decide what to do later on.

It is only about 15 LoC. Fork it on Github if it's useful to you!

http://github.com/paulrosania/hacker_sync

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/cdlbaeiklbcclmbibhedlihcaeocidhj

I'm looking for a simple web app that allows anybody to create a cause. Once you've created the cause, you can send out a link that allows people to automatically contact their congressman via email and/or through an auto-VOIP-call -- all to support the cause. So it's a platform to allows leaders to more easily lead and followers to easily follow.

Does this exist? I've searched through LifeHacker, Hacker News archives, Sunlight Labs, and google -- no luck. Anybody know of something like this? I want to use it to stir up action against the anti-angel Dodd bill.

I'm looking for a simple web app that allows anybody to create a cause. Once you've created the cause, you can send out a link that allows people to automatically contact their congressman via email and/or through an auto-VOIP-call -- all to support the cause. So it's a platform to allows leaders to more easily lead and followers to easily follow.

Does this exist? I've searched through LifeHacker, Hacker News archives, Sunlight Labs, and google -- no luck. Anybody know of something like this? I want to use it for the anti-angel Dodd bill awareness.

I'm looking for a simple web app that allows anybody to create a cause. Once you've created the cause, you can send out a link that allows people to automatically contact their congressman via email and/or through an auto-VOIP-call -- all to support the cause. So it's a platform to allows leaders to more easily lead and followers to easily follow.

Does this exist? I've searched through LifeHacker, Hacker News archives, Sunlight Labs, and google -- no luck. Anybody know of something like this? I want to use it for the anti-angel Dodd bill awareness.

Why not link to HN submissions instead (e.g., from your twitter account, home page, etc.) and rely on Google to rank HN submissions?

The HN front page could be obtained using something like this:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&esrch=FT1&tbo=1&tbs=qdr:d&q=site:news.ycombinator.com+%2Bhacker&aq=f

P.S. It seems that PageRank is not used in Google site queries unless they also include a keyword.