Hey HN, I'm a dev who's been job hunting recently.
Hey HN, I'm a dev who's been job hunting recently. Got ghosted multiple times, wasted hours on "urgent roles" that went nowhere, and talked to a recruiter who later turned out to be running some kind of scam. I kept thinking — why is there no way to check if a recruiter is legit before responding to their LinkedIn message? So I built Wreckruiter ( https://www.wreckruiter.com ). Look up a recruiter, see if others got ghosted or scammed, leave your own review. Classic chicken-and-egg problem. But I figured I'd throw it out here and see if this resonates or if I'm solving a problem nobody actually cares enough to act on. One thing I've been thinking about: good recruiters should actually want this. Transparency helps them stand out from the bad actors ruining their industry. Maybe there's something to build on that side too — verified placements, response rate stats, who knows. Built it in Elixir/Phoenix if anyone cares about the stack. Roast away. Is this useful? Would you actually check it before responding to a recruiter? What's missing?
Posted by ohMoshko on Jan 1, 2026, 7:37 PM
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The biggest problem with MOND is that it was hand-crafted with additional parameters simply to fit the data.
(My comment is about detached houses).
The biggest problem with this is that I can't run my company's own internal benchmarks against this API, because they will be trained int...
> steer Claude away from over-engineering parts of the system in response to hypothetical concerns.
Why is there no comparison with FLUX 3 Image?
> our Git monorepo was developing an annoying problem Sentences like this are so common from people using monorepos that I am convinced ...
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Hey HN, I'm a dev who's been job hunting recently.
Hey HN, I'm a dev who's been job hunting recently. Got ghosted multiple times, wasted hours on "urgent roles" that went nowhere, and talked to a recruiter who later turned out to be running some kind of scam. I kept thinking — why is there no way to check if a recruiter is legit before responding to their LinkedIn message? So I built Wreckruiter ( https://www.wreckruiter.com ). Look up a recruiter, see if others got ghosted or scammed, leave your own review. Classic chicken-and-egg problem. But I figured I'd throw it out here and see if this resonates or if I'm solving a problem nobody actually cares enough to act on. One thing I've been thinking about: good recruiters should actually want this. Transparency helps them stand out from the bad actors ruining their industry. Maybe there's something to build on that side too — verified placements, response rate stats, who knows. Built it in Elixir/Phoenix if anyone cares about the stack. Roast away. Is this useful? Would you actually check it before responding to a recruiter? What's missing?
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