tobr 6 hours ago

How does a submission with no comments, a handful of points, posted by a completely new account, linking to a barely used GitHub repo… go straight to the top of HN?

  • journal 5 hours ago

    maybe hn gives preferential treatment to key words like 'job'?

  • chistev 6 hours ago

    Luck

    • CajuM 3 hours ago

      guess you're right...

onebitwise 6 hours ago

Clever “sorry.sh” using nmcli!

  • CajuM 3 hours ago

    You can also ssh into your wireless router and if it's OpenWrt do a `ifdown wan && ifup wan`. It just happened that I own a Banana PI that used to have ArchLinux ARM on it.

babuloseo 6 hours ago

Cool will try to use it to see if I can find fraudlent companies or fake ones.

  • CajuM 3 hours ago

    If you look at the https://github.com/CajuM/jobhunt/blob/master/gh-orgs-gtek.ts... file you should see largely reputable organizations. It's still a churn to find a job as many are not companies that hire, or are just historical start-ups.

    You could Google "site:{domain_from_url} careers" and filter them that way with a script. You'll still need a sorry.sh script for that.

    • CajuM 3 hours ago

      You can then use the following prompt on ChatGPT for the top results: "are there job openings at this url: {url} answer in at most one word, either yes or no"

tombert 6 hours ago

I ended up writing a browser plugin to autofill a lot of fields in job applications. It’s extremely inelegant, just a bunch of hackey jquery stuff to automatically set fields, a few conditionals for slightly less obvious stuff, and that’s pretty much it.

I have thought about trying extend this to something like Selenium and applying to literally every software job on LinkedIn and Indeed automatically, but I can’t imagine that would actually turn out well for me.

I hate this grind. It’s exhausting, more so knowing that most of the jobs I am applying to are probably fake postings to help companies pretend they are growing to get more investor money.

I guess time is wasteable for us peons.

  • CajuM 3 hours ago

    Oh... I did not know companies did that? Even serious ones?

urbanisierung 6 hours ago

why didn't you use the github api to fetch the data?

  • CajuM 3 hours ago

    If I recall correctly the GitHub API for fetching organizations is authenticated and was worried I'd get banned. Either that or the rate limiting was more lax on the web-site.