Only YC companies are allowed to post jobs on HN.
You could imagine that HN is a direct solution to what many people consider that hardest problem startups have to solve: hiring good engineers.
You could imagine that HN is a direct solution to what many people consider that hardest problem startups have to solve: hiring good engineers.
That's factually incorrect. Only YC companies are allowed to post job ads at any time and as separate threads. But once per month any company can post job ads on HN, the 'who is hiring' threads on the first of the month.
Only YC companies are available on the "jobs" tab at the top of this, and every, HN page. Only YC companies can be the original post, instead of a comment. YC job postings are the only links that are not subject to comments/criticism.
The original point is that HN serves a very useful purpose for YC companies that it doesn't serve for non-YC companies.