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Reval

Design Engineer (San Francisco)

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$140K - $220K/yr

The client has raised a $10M seed round from top investors and has been featured on the All In Podcast, front page of Hacker News, and voted a top 5 product on Product Hunt. The client believes the ...

Nuon

Sales Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

Are active and prolific on X and Hacker News about technical content * Have been a full-stack engineer before getting into sales About Nuon Nuon is an infrastructure platform that enables software ...

Greptile

Developer Advocate

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $160K/yr

Familiarity with developer platforms like GitHub, Twitter, and Hacker News, and how their cultures work. * Experience contributing to open source, building developer tooling, or doing community work ...

Sent, Inc

Developer Advocate

New York, NY · On-site

$155K - $215K/yr

Hacker News, X, Reddit, Discord servers, GitHub. You'll write the tutorial that ranks for "how to send WhatsApp from Node.js." You'll attend events, conferences, hackathons, and host some in-house.

Imbue

Founding Product Marketer

San Francisco, CA · On-site +1

$250/day

Draw good insights about which channels audiences spend time, whether that's Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, X, developer newsletters, partnerships, or places we haven't considered yet. * Expand beyond ...

Imbue

Founding Product Marketer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$250/day

Draw good insights about which channels audiences spend time, whether that's Reddit, Hacker News, YouTube, X, developer newsletters, partnerships, or places we haven't considered yet. * Expand beyond ...

Blacksmith Software Inc

Brand Designer

New York, NY · On-site

$180K - $220K/yr

Work directly with the founders and with engineering on launch narratives, from the shape of the story down to the assets that carry it on Hacker News, X, and the blog. * Ship fast and iterate in ...

Anthropic

Communications Lead, Platform

New York, NY · On-site

$265K - $295K/yr

Are very online: you follow the right channels, know what's moving through Hacker News and developer social chatter, and catch things early The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

Nuon

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$67.25 - $89.25/hr

Are active and prolific on X and Hacker News about technical content About Nuon Nuon is an infrastructure platform that enables software vendors to deploy and manage their applications directly into ...

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How much do hacker news jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 5, 2026, the average hourly pay for hacker news in the United States is $22.12, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $18.51 and $23.08 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the Hacker News position?

To thrive as a Hacker News moderator or content curator, you need strong analytical skills, a keen interest in technology and startups, and excellent written communication, typically supported by experience in online community management or journalism. Familiarity with content management systems, web analytics tools, and moderation platforms such as Discourse or custom site backends is valuable. Outstanding soft skills include diplomacy, critical thinking, and the ability to remain objective and fair when reviewing user submissions. These abilities are crucial for maintaining a high-quality, respectful community and keeping content relevant and engaging for the audience.

What are the daily responsibilities of someone working on the Hacker News moderation or content curation team?

Daily responsibilities often include reviewing new story and comment submissions to ensure they adhere to community guidelines, moderating discussions for civility and relevance, and troubleshooting user or technical issues within the platform. Team members also monitor trending topics in technology and startups to surface high-quality content and foster meaningful conversations. Collaboration with other moderators and the technical team is common to address escalations, improve site features, or refine moderation policies. This role is dynamic and requires staying updated with the latest industry news to keep the community valuable and engaging.

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Technical Storyteller

Blacksmith Software Inc

New York, NY • On-site

$150K - $180K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 4 days ago

Job description

About Blacksmith
  • We started by building infrastructure to run CI workloads really fast. Our first product helps companies run GitHub Actions substantially faster and cheaper by owning and operating our own global fleet of bare-metal machines rather than renting generic cloud VMs.
  • Today, we orchestrate tens of millions of Firecracker VMs each week, running CI for 5,000+ companies and hitting ~$50M in ARR in 2.5 years. We've more than 5x'd our revenue since the start of 2026.
  • We operate thousands of bare-metal machines across multiple regions, regularly schedule 100k+ vCPUs concurrently, and run a petabyte-scale Ceph cluster that we manage ourselves.
  • We've raised $58.5M from Seed to Series B, led by Google Ventures (GV) & Peak XV Partners, and we're intentionally building a small, but exceptional team.
  • Blacksmith was founded by a team with deep systems and scaling experience, including building search/ads infrastructure at Faire, and operating large distributed systems at Cockroach Labs. Our GTM is led by Jon Boyer, formerly Head of Sales at Zapier.
  • We're now extending the same CI infrastructure into a broader platform: running agent sandboxes at scale and building our own background coding agent on top of it.

What you'll do
  • Build and run the content engine. We are constantly working on complex infrastructure problems and have a lot of features to launch this year, but there's no machinery yet for turning launches and engineering work into content on a reliable cadence. Today that overhead falls on engineers and founders, which means it often doesn't happen at all. You'll build the machine and own the cadence, so a regular stream of high-quality technical content ships.
  • Design how we launch. We're shipping several 0-to-1 products and features this year and each needs a narrative: the announcement, the docs-adjacent explainers, the demos. You'll work closely with the Product team to build up this playbook and reduce the overhead with every launch.
  • Turn customers into stories. We have engineering teams who cut their CI times by an order of magnitude. Find those stories, interview these teams and write compelling content that other engineers will naturally draw parallels to in their own work.
  • Set the bar for technical content in this category. Deep dives, benchmarks, teardowns, comparisons, the occasional argumentative essay. Things that get to the front page of Hacker News on merit.
  • Extend past the blog. Video, YouTube, docs, changelog, conference talks, the company account. Whatever format the story actually needs.

You're a good fit if you
  • Have 5+ years writing for a technical audience - developer media, technical content marketing, DevRel, or engineering-adjacent journalism.
  • Have published work that traveled: pieces that hit the front page of Hacker News, threads that got quoted, posts engineers send each other, or an audience you built yourself. We will ask for links to get to better know your style of writing.
  • Understand technical concepts deeply enough to present them credibly. You don't need to be an engineer, but you're genuinely curious about what we're building and the wider market.
  • Can pull a story out of engineers who don't think of themselves as storytellers. You can read a design doc or a pull request and come out with a thesis, and you ask questions to build a content piece.
  • Write with a point of view. We'd rather publish something arguable than something safe.
  • Are very online: you follow the right channels, know what's moving through Hacker News, X, and developer social chatter, and catch things early. You have instincts about what will work and what won't.
  • Work with autonomy. There's no manager, no brief, no existing calendar. You'll decide what's worth writing.

Compensation and benefits
  • Medical, Vision, and Dental insurance.
  • Competitive base + equity.
  • 401k match.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Annual offsite.
  • Early-exercise stock options
  • 12 weeks fully paid parental leave (US)

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