Why “Unemployment” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Right. And this unemployment will also cascade, because small businesses will go bankrupt after loosing their customers.
by sedan_baklazhan · Oct 27, 2026
Yeah unemployment famously doesn’t include those who’ve given up… I fear there are many more than we’re willing to admit
by hyperadvanced · Oct 27, 2026
> We can't even have a conversation about extended unemployment benefits, retraining credits or lamplighters transitioning to utility workers, which is what happened with the "b…
by lelanthran · Oct 27, 2026
Coincides with an EMNLP keynote sharing a tweet saying “big lab people now ignore NeurIPS/iclr/ etc papers and regard them as full of lies”. Well, AI research outside…
by Der_Einzige · Oct 27, 2026
The unemployment rate is misleading; it is harder than any time before 2008 to get a new job: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UEMPMEAN
by noahbp · Oct 27, 2026
That works out to $31k. That’s not a lot for a software engineer at Microsoft. Levels.fyi pegs entry level at $170k. So that’s like 2 months of pay. The buyout offer certainly w…
by dpark · Oct 27, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "unemployment" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "unemployment" over time.
Unemployment is the state of not being in paid employment or self-employment but rather currently available for work. Unemployment is measured by the unemployment rate, which is the number of people who are unemployed as a percentage of the labour force during the reference period. Read more on Wikipedia