I found the same - market is actually getting worse (if HN is representative of the market). This month there were more job seekers on HN than jobs for the first time since 2014.
This site I think counts only top-level comments, and the streams have been crossed since ~April 2023: https://www.hnhiringtrends.com/ . The overall trend is the same though - the market seems pretty historically bad.
daemonologist|1 year ago
There's also Indeed postings data, which unfortunately only goes back to 2020 but is similarly bleak: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE