You people are ridiculous. Peroni has been around on Hacker News for a very long time and has helped numerous - dozens! - of our community out. Stop being so rude. If people are so offended at the parent comment, they'll down vote it.

You know what, even though I've had a lot of positive responses, this will be my first & last 'Who's Hiring' post.

It's generated more noise than I had anticipated and it's taking from the purpose of the thread and that's the last thing I wanted.

It's too late to edit or delete my comment but I assure you it will be my last.

What's wrong with recruiters?

I'm assuming you wouldn't have a problem if someone mentioned that their employer was hiring (ie. non-primary posting in general)

I've actually used "Who's hiring" in the past. Two things made it very useful to me:

1.) It tells me something about the company. At the very least, it tells me that at least one founder/employee/etc. is reading HN.

2.) I can leisurely check out what the company does without making any sort of commitment (even just a phone call/screen).

Both of those advantages go out the window when recruiters are involved.

And BTW, I have nothing against recruiters. I just wish there was one jobs related page on the internet that didn't have them.

Fair enough.

Postive reactions: 9

Negative: 2

I think you will garner significantly different reaction if you give some sense of who you are as a recruiter in your posts, and why you aren't a scumbag (i've read some of your threads/comments).

Disclosure that you're a recruiter is fine if you can articulate how you are going recruiting differently. Link to your blog, talk about your dev experience, etc.

Have a look at my submissions. The last three have adressed exactly that and have had a huge amount of attention here and 99% of the feedback has been incredibly positive.

As for my dev experience, I was highly average and never built anything worth talking about here although a friend & I are working on something pretty cool at the moment that I mentioned briefly in the past. I will be doing a post soon talking about that particular product.

10.