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I do this every single month. Even though I am not looking for a job.

Every time, the "valuation" outweighs the salary ranges by 10 to 1.

Same here. I hacked together a quick script to parse just the first line of each post. Currently, out of 428 job posts only 44 have salary information.

Now +24hrs and it is at 79 / 801.

When a salary range is given it's because the budget is constrained.

Jobs without a salary range listed typically pay the best.

I really hope you are joking.

That is the opposite of how things work.

Companies that won't post salaries are fucking always lower than they should be.

I don't know about that. Why would you want to advertise a low salary?

Companies most willing to pay large salaries won't hide it. If you want the best developers and have the money to pay them, there's no reason to obfuscate what you can offer.

If you're interested in doing this automatically, I wrote a script that will upvote all posts containing a salary range:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16284369