How to filter Hacker News Who Is Hiring for $100k+ remote jobs
To find $100k+ remote software jobs in Hacker News's Who Is Hiring threads, check each role against four requirements: software work, fully remote from your location, a published salary, and a minimum of $100,000 USD per year.
Searching for REMOTE helps you find candidates for your shortlist. It does not tell you which ones meet all four requirements. A post can advertise several roles with different salaries and locations: DualEntry's August 2026 comment, for example, included both an onsite engineering manager position and a remote mobile engineering position. See the original post.
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Start with the right thread—and the specific role
Open the Ask HN: Who is hiring? thread for the month you are searching. Check the date before saving a role from a search result.
HN's posting rules ask for one post per company, not one post per vacancy. Read employer posts rather than treating every comment or reply as another job. The August 2026 thread shows the format.
Evaluate each role separately. Do not assign the highest salary or the most flexible location in a company's comment to every opening it mentions.
The four checks for $100k+ remote software jobs
1. Is it the software role you are looking for?
Start with the work: backend, frontend, full-stack, mobile, infrastructure, or another engineering specialty that fits your search.
Check the individual job description, not just the company name or the word "engineer." Keep management and other non-coding roles separate when your goal is a hands-on development job.
2. Is it fully remote from your location?
Exclude jobs that require recurring office attendance. Then check where the employer accepts remote candidates.
A US-only remote role does not qualify for a search based in Germany. But a requirement to overlap with Pacific working hours does not, by itself, mean US-only hiring. Country eligibility and working hours are different questions.
Record both. When a post does not name eligible countries, mark the location as unconfirmed, not worldwide.
3. Does the HN post disclose the salary?
For this filter, the number must appear in the employer's HN post. "Competitive," "depending on experience," and a link to a careers page are not salary ranges.
That is a search rule, not a judgment about the employer. A role without published pay might meet your budget, but you cannot establish that from the comment.
Use the employer's current job page to check details before applying. Do not silently fill a missing HN salary with an estimate.
4. Does the salary start at $100,000 USD?
Compare your minimum with the bottom of the advertised annual base-salary range, not the top.
A hypothetical $90,000-$150,000 USD range fails a $100,000 minimum. A $100,000-$140,000 USD range passes the salary check. A package worth $150,000 including equity does not establish a $100,000 base salary.
Confirm the currency and pay period. Do not assume every dollar sign means USD, or turn an hourly rate into guaranteed annual earnings without confirmed hours.
The range must also apply to your location. When a post says pay is adjusted by country, a US salary does not establish the same minimum elsewhere. Seeq's August post makes this distinction explicitly. Read Seeq's salary qualification.
Real examples from the August 2026 thread
These are historical examples of how to read the posts, not a claim that the positions are still open. The salary column preserves the advertised figures; it does not establish that the same pay is available in every country.
| Role and original HN post | Advertised salary | Remote conditions | Filtering decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chronograph - Platform Engineer | $175,000-$215,000 USD | US remote | Meets the four checks for a US-based search. |
| DuckDuckGo - Senior Backend Engineer | $178,500 USD, plus equity | Remote; the comment does not specify eligible countries for this role | Meets the salary check. Confirm country eligibility rather than assuming worldwide. |
| Seeq - Staff/Principal Backend Engineer | $170,000-$205,000 for US-based candidates | Remote, with some Pacific-time overlap | The US range clears the minimum. Pay in other countries is adjusted and needs checking. |
| Normal - Senior Backend Engineer | $100,000-$140,000 USD | Remote, with Pacific/Eastern working hours | Meets the salary check. The post does not establish country eligibility. |
| CodeWeavers - macOS developers | Not stated in the HN comment | Remote applicants in the US and internationally | Exclude from this salary-disclosed shortlist. The post does not establish a pay floor. |
The distinction matters: a salary match is not automatically a location match. Keep roles that meet every requirement separate from roles that need an answer from the employer.
Before you apply, confirm the details that affect you
Open the employer's current listing using the link in its HN comment. Check that the role is still available and that the salary, location, and remote arrangement have not changed.
When pay or working hours are unclear, ask a specific question:
Is this annual base-salary range available to someone working from [country], and what daily working-hour overlap do you require?
Do not use "remote" as a substitute for checking meeting expectations and required hours. Those details determine whether the job fits your schedule.
Follow the application instructions in the post, too. Normal's August comment specifically asked candidates to use its form and said direct emails would be ignored. Read the application instructions.
Keep a shortlist you can check again
Save each role with its salary and currency, eligible locations, required hours, original HN link, and the date you checked it. Label missing details as unconfirmed.
Count distinct roles in your shortlist, not comments. Preserve the source links so you can revisit a salary qualification or application instruction without searching the whole thread again.
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