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Full report:
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Engineering was 60% of postings, up from 56%. Data and ML were 14.5%, down from 16.5%. Junior roles went from 7 to 23.
The October update will be out in early November.
Remote was 49.2% of roles that listed a location, down from 50.0% in August. Hybrid and onsite were about 25% each.
The US was 60.1% of roles with a region, down from 62.1%. (5/6)
Python is still #1 with 38 mentions, down from 43. TypeScript went from 38 to 30 and PostgreSQL from 33 to 24.
Docker and CI/CD went up a lot in percentage terms, but the actual numbers are small: 11 to 16 and 7 to 11. (4/6)
Median pay was $195k, up 2.6% from August. The record is $200k, from March.
The lower end of posted salaries went from around $150k to around $170k. 147 postings listed a salary this month, up from 145. (3/6)
September 2026 Hacker News Hiring Index:
539 job postings in September. That's 25% more than August (430) and 25% fewer than September last year (722). The 12-month average is 700.
Median pay went up to $195k. (1/6)
Adam Tal 🚀 retweeted
In the next version of Kai, the reviewer works like a teammate.
You can talk it through a finding. On this PR the author showed Kai the git history, and Kai said "Fair. Dropping the finding."
You can also ask it to fix things. It makes the fix itself instead of handing it off to someone else.
Adam Tal 🚀 retweeted
😘 Saw tons of complaints about the top AI code reviewers.
🌞 Took all the top complaints solved them in @kaicontextdev.
🤩 Now @kaicontextdev scores higher on benchmarks and solves biggest complaints.