I think job boards are pretty boring ... they seem to be the fallback business plan these days for any site where adsense doesn't make enough...

I agree but it seems clear that HN could use some way of letting its like-minded visitors connect.

pg has built a singular and impressive user base, one which benefits from talking to and meeting each other.

I do agree a traditional jobs board would a lame add-on which would exist orthogonally to the stories/comments. Very soon it would be filled by stale jobs (startups move fast), recruiters and people who come just for the jobs section.

The current method of putting up a job post when it seems to be of most utility works, but just barely.

I just don't know if there's any feature you can add which would not feel like a cheap add-on but rather work within the current user-centric community.

bad idea, it'll get spammed by recruiters and big companies...like all job boards are.

I think the more personal "is anyone looking" is a much better idea.

Seems to me putting a karma requirement on posting, and requiring X up-votes before it gets to the main job page would solve that problem.

And create a new problem of more people trying to game the karma system. I think it's best to leave jobs (no pun intended) out of this place.

Does a site do this? This sounds like a great approach to that sector.

I'm not entirely sure if this is the right approach, but a job site that works as well as job postings on HN is definitely in demand

We could make it like doostang, so you need to have somebody invite you in order to make an account

The "is anyone looking" approach doesn't work well here. Unlike regular forum threads, HN posts will disappear from the front page very quickly even if people are still replying to it.

Maybe someone can solve that hard problem while they're at it?

Leverage whatever's keeping HN relatively spam-free.

You could charge companies $350 per posting and $1000/month to search CVs and finance HN like this. Applicants would be rated by karma, and employers by the 'PG test', which would check whether they use Lisp, have source control, etc. It's a proven model!

http://jobs.stackoverflow.com/default.asp?pg=pgEmployers

Or we can start a company and have have YC invest in it :D

Not HackerJobs, but perhaps http://job4dev.com/jobs ?

Free to post listings, as long as the there is information about the company that is hiring. People can browse companies and listings by tags. Just put a "ycombinator" or "startup" tag there, and I'll approve it quickly.

Users that would like to get more details before applying can do so by registering and letting a comment on the listing page.

... you wouldn't happen to work on that, by any chance?

I do. What other disclaimer besides "I'll approve it quickly" would be needed?

Hmm, would anyone object to another 'who's hiring' thread right now? It's been about 2.5 months since the last one ...

It seems like no one is objecting, although I thought it was going to happen once every 3 months

I'll stick with tradition and wait a few more weeks then ;-)

Isn't that called Startuply.com?