The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page

Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by modeless on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @12:41AM (#44958677)

I once got a job from a post on my blog that hit the front page. So the value to me was enormous.

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Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by jader201 on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @01:25AM (#44958883)

Relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7833251

That was over 11 years ago.

I still work there.

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Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by andreabergia on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:26AM (#44959202)

Same here! I am now actually working in compilers, which is one thing I'm really passionate about, but not something I was doing professionaly. I managed to turn a toy project and some blog posts into an actual job at almost 40, so, thank you HN!

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Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by saagarjha on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:31AM (#44959233)

If I might ask what does you employer need compiler experience for?

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Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by andreabergia on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @04:11AM (#44959812)

I work at ServiceNow, which sells an enterprise platform and a ton of products built on top of it. Internal teams and customers can extend the platform by writing JavaScript, hence we have a JS runtime in the platform (the venerable https://github.com/mozilla/rhino/), which our team works on.

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Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by saagarjha on Friday August 22, 2025 @04:10AM (#44982045)

Huh, interesting. Thanks!

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Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by anonyfox on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:31AM (#44959568)

Same here. And same day from posting to interviewing even.

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Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by leeoniya on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:22AM (#44959179)

same. except was an oss lib on github.

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Re:The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page by mooreds on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @10:30AM (#44962317)

That's amazing! Can you share more?

Did they reach out to you? What was the interview like? Was the post adjacent or directly related to the job tasks?

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