It was posted at 10am last month. The hour shift might be accounted for by the fact that DST started in the US between the March and April posts.

Well, 10:01. Shall I ?

Posted.

Yeah, between

whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

and

_whoishiring https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=_whoishiring

I'm not sure who to follow.

I think that the original account is having DST confusion. It was an hour late last month.

If it doesn't show up in 28 minutes, I'll post the thread.

PS. Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?

It probably warrants it by now. As I understand it, access to the automated script and account has been sent through though before dang took on his role: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828

It would be great if the mods could take this over, it's a really useful part of hacker news.

If you need to summon the mods, you can write to hn@ycombinator.com . They usually see most of the threads, but it's impossible to real all of them all the time. So the reply to the email is faster.

> PS. Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?

Isn't it already (semi-)official?

> An account named whoishiring is the only one allowed to submit the regular threads. This prevents a race to post them first.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?

Yup. I love that whoishiring started as a user's creation and that it lasted so long as the most informal possible thing, but people have come to depend on these posts.

the _whoishiring was a fill in last month since the normal bot didn't come alive for whatever reason.

It did post last month, but late (by US time), and it skipped the who-is-hiring thread because the fill-in was already heavily used by that time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Notice it posts three things every month. In April, it posted two as to not create confusion.

It's ability to skip one of the three posts seems pretty human to me.

Seemed worthwhile to post so people sitting there hitting refresh could take a break