Tech hiring is down 40% and nobody’s talking about it

This was posted yesterday and here's discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056210

This response on Medium offers a plausible hypothesis:

> I suspect that the decline of your job board postings are an indicator that certain kinds of job board postings are becoming less popular, rather than an indicator that the developer job market is contracting in 2016.

Sauce: https://medium.com/@_ericelliott/youre-looking-at-a-tiny-sli...

Key paragraph:

> Because previous years have been reliably consistent and because our competitors' numbers are off by similar measures, we feel confident assuming fewer jobs are available across the industry. Whether it's 40% fewer or another amount is anyone's guess.