Show HN: Who is hiring? data since first Covid infection

Curious if we could predict a recession, and without ChatGPT’s assistance, I compiled total comments from HN&#x27;s who is hiring? threads since November 2019. According to Wikipedia, Chinese gov’t records suggest the first COVID infection occurred then.<p>Numbers are total comments and estimate is &gt;90% of comments are job posts. Summary: February 2023 comments are less than half of the peak in 2021 when several months had &gt;1000 comments.<p>2023: 2&#x2F;23 = 465, 1&#x2F;23 = 533<p>2022: 12&#x2F;22 = 576, 11&#x2F;22 = 635, 10&#x2F;22 = 560, 9&#x2F;22 = 618, 8&#x2F;22 = 761, 7&#x2F;22 = 617, 6&#x2F;22 = 852, 5&#x2F;22 = 844, 4&#x2F;22 = 798, 3&#x2F;22 = 869, 2&#x2F;22 = 883, 1&#x2F;22 = 766<p>2021: 12&#x2F;21 = 832, 11&#x2F;21 = 1019, 10&#x2F;21 = 852, 9&#x2F;21 = 968, 8&#x2F;21 = 907, 7&#x2F;21 = 987, 6&#x2F;21 = 1041, 5&#x2F;21 = 925, 4&#x2F;21 = 970, 3&#x2F;21 = 964, 2&#x2F;21 = 1052, 1&#x2F;21 = 848<p>2020: 12&#x2F;20 = 767, 11&#x2F;20 = 808, 10&#x2F;20 = 811, 9&#x2F;20 = 698, 8&#x2F;20 = 828, 7&#x2F;20 = 681, 6&#x2F;20 = 659, 5&#x2F;20 = 686, 4&#x2F;20 = 601, 3&#x2F;23&#x2F;20 = 786, 3&#x2F;20 = 776, 2&#x2F;20 = 677, 1&#x2F;20 = 697<p>2019: 12&#x2F;19 = 673, 11&#x2F;19 = 742<p>OpenAI employees, watch for this flood of ChatGPT prompts: how to gamble on stocks with HN hiring data?