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Show HN: Got ghosted by tech companies so I built a tool to track ghost jobs

Hacker News - Sat, 05/16/2026 - 4:43pm

Last year I was looking for a new role. I sent out applications, did the prep, waited. What came back was mostly nothing. Not rejection emails, just silence. The job listings I'd applied to stayed live for weeks. Some for months.

As a software engineer, I decided to dig into it properly. I built a system to continuously track job postings across companies, logging posting dates and measuring how long roles stay open before closing or don't. After 35,000+ listings across 200+ companies, some patterns are hard to ignore. Some listings have been open for 700+ days at companies you'd recognize. Others post 90% of their open roles within a single month, a signal that's harder to fake than a press release.

I published two initial insight pages based on this work: - Which companies are posting most aggressively right now - Job listings that have been open for over a year

What I didn't expect is that the same signals useful for detecting ghost jobs also say something broader about a company's hiring momentum, recruiting intensity, pipeline health, where talent bottlenecks might exist. I'm not sure yet where this leads, but I'll keep expanding the dataset and publishing more insights as I go.

Would genuinely love feedback on the methodology, interpretation, or obvious blind spots in the data.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163604

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Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for May 17 #805

CNET Feed - Sat, 05/16/2026 - 4:01pm
Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for May 17, No. 805.
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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for May 17, #1071

CNET Feed - Sat, 05/16/2026 - 4:00pm
Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for May 17, No. 1,071.
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Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for May 17, #1793

CNET Feed - Sat, 05/16/2026 - 4:00pm
Here are hints and the answer for today's Wordle for May 17, No. 1,793.
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Cardiologist and FDA-Approved At-Home Blood Pressure Monitors

CNET Feed - Sat, 05/16/2026 - 4:00pm
Track your blood pressure easily at home with these expert recommendations.
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Show HN: Mpvc, minimal music player for controling mpv from the shell

Hacker News - Sat, 05/16/2026 - 3:51pm

mpvc has been my daily music player since COVID years, I started getting involved and forked lwillets/mpvc around 2022, as the uses of mpvc have evolved I've tried group specific functionalities under its own separate tools, so for example now there is: mpvc for the CLI, mpvc-tui for a minimal text user interface (TUI), mpvc-web for a web-based interface, and mpvc-fzf for fzf integration for searching and playing music from online streaming services, among others.

PS: The project has appeared before in Show HN, in 2022, and a year later, since the project has continued, and the Show HN was useful in raising discussion and providing feedback, I'm posting it again.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163197

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Kelvin versioning

Hacker News - Sat, 05/16/2026 - 3:39pm
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