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AI vs Crypto: Which Hype Cycle Actually Created Jobs on Hacker News?

The AI/ML hiring wave versus the blockchain/crypto wave on Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts, each bucket as one bar, charted by share since 2011, with the real listings.

Compare Machine Learning / Deep learning / LLM / Generative ai / NLP vs Blockchain / Crypto / Web3 in the Who Is Hiring? tool
Machine Learning / Deep learning / LLM / Generative ai / NLPBlockchain / Crypto / Web3
14,341
2,871
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Job postings

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Each calendar month since 2011 as one bar. Switch to share % to stack the bands to 100% and see each side’s slice of the Who is hiring? postings, narrow the window, or click any month to read the postings behind the bar.

How the lead changes hands

Here are the two great hype cycles head to head, each gathered into one bucket: AI, machine learning and LLM on one side; blockchain, crypto and web3 on the other. The relative bands show their very different shapes - crypto's sharp spike and fade against AI's steady build and post-2022 surge - answering which wave actually became durable hiring. Read the sample postings behind each bucket to see how the roles differed.

The real postings behind each

Machine Learning / Deep learning / LLM / Generative ai / NLP14,341 postings · peak Apr 2018
  1. …I've spent the last 18 months iterating on Phrasing, a language learning app for polyglots. It's finally reached a stable point, and we're starting to get Daily Active Users. I've been using it every day for over a month now to learn over a dozen languages, and have been blown…

  2. …Beam, Spark, dbt, BigQuery Experience in healthtech, pregnancy care, machine learning, and design are all valuable as well! See all four postings here, which include some details on comp & benefits: https: www.delfina.com careers

  3. …https: www.l2labs.ai L2 Labs is a brand new applied AI lab building machine intelligence for data integration and interoperability. We're fast growing: we closed a pre-seed funding round, established partnerships with Cornell and NYU, and secured a large enterprise customer in…

Blockchain / Crypto / Web32,871 postings · peak May 2018
  1. …users (4M+ in the last 8 months alone) onto products built with blockchain infra and distributed systems. We believe that when users own cryptographic keys, we shift the status quo so that users control more of their data and assets online. Privacy is fundamentally about…

  2. Chorus One | https: chorus.one careers | Platforms Engineer | REMOTE (Switzerland ± 6 hours) Chorus One operates validators on many proof-of-stake blockchains (the ones where security is based on a Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithm rather than wasting energy). We are…

  3. …innovative products safe. We are looking for GoLang Engineers and Blockchain Engineers to join our team. The full job description and how to apply can be found here ( https: jobs.ashbyhq.com quantstamp ).

Two hype cycles head to head: the AI/ML bucket versus the blockchain/crypto bucket.

Each on its own

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