February 2, 2026
Job boards gone wild
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
Developers crash ‘Who’s Hiring’ thread like it’s Black Friday for tech jobs
TLDR: Hacker News’ monthly hiring thread turned into a tech talent carnival, with companies pitching everything from book‑loving AI to 3D planet builders and “we’ll retrain you” offers. Commenters joked about zombie programming languages, sci‑fi job ads, and whether any of these dream roles work for true remote hermits.
The monthly “Who is hiring?” post just dropped on Hacker News, and the comments turned into a full-blown job bazaar with a side of drama. Stream kicked things off with a flex: they’re hiring everyone from senior coders to big-title directors, promising real-world scale and even a 10‑week bootcamp to retrain you in their favorite language. The vibe? “Come for the paycheck, stay for the résumé upgrade.”
But the real show is in the replies. One commenter from Prezly slides in like a smooth marketer, casually bragging they handle millions of readers and are still rocking old-school PHP, triggering the eternal “Is PHP dead or immortal?” eye-roll from the crowd. BitRipple shows up as the mysterious deep‑tech wizard, talking about super‑fast networks for artificial intelligence in language so intense it might as well say, “You’ll be talking to GPUs all day, good luck.”
Bookarang brings the wholesome energy, promising to use artificial intelligence to recommend books based on what’s actually inside them, not just what’s trendy—cue jokes about finally escaping algorithm‑approved beach reads. Blackshark AI jumps in with “we rebuild the planet in 3D,” instantly becoming the comment-section’s main character. The unspoken tension: half the crowd drooling over sci‑fi‑sounding jobs, the other half wondering if any of these companies will hire remote workers who never want to leave their couch.
Key Points
- •Stream is hiring multiple senior to principal-level Go backend engineers, including a Technical Director of Engineering and Lead Backend Developer roles, with a 10-week onboarding program for engineers from other stacks.
- •Stream operates high-traffic services such as a video SFU, chat API, moderation, and feeds using a stack including Go, CockroachDB, RocksDB, WebRTC, Raft, and Redis, serving customers like Strava, Nextdoor, Patreon, and Midjourney.
- •Prezly is a profitable, remote-first company hiring a Senior Backend Engineer and Full-Stack Engineer in Europe (±2h CET), using PHP (Symfony), PostgreSQL, React/TypeScript, and Kubernetes on AWS, and leveraging AI coding tools.
- •BitRipple is recruiting two Senior Software Engineers focused on high-performance networking and GPU/RDMA-related development to build a next-generation AI communication layer that reduces GPU idle time during LLM training, primarily remote in the USA.
- •Bookarang (part of NBD Biblion) and Blackshark AI are hiring DevOps/backend and software/platform engineers respectively, for AI-based book recommendation systems and geospatial AI infrastructure, using modern stacks including Airflow, Docker, PyTorch, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms.