# US Job Market Visualizer by Andrej Karpathy

5 Hacker News commenters recommended US Job Market Visualizer by Andrej Karpathy and 10 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as an interactive view of US job market data that challenges the replacement narrative. Critics call the data fake or dated and the design AI slop.

## Why people recommend it

- Challenges white-collar replacement narrative (2 comments): "I enjoy that this visualization directly contradicts the mainstream narrative that white collar work is being replaced by blue collar work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401365)) "Love this. My only critique is that this perspective may lend credence to doomerism" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411753))

## What people warn about

- Looks like AI slop (4 comments): "This is an AI slop website the same as spammed on Show HN" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47400715)) "Putting aside the slop facade place atop the data" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401819)) "it's pretty much just AI slop repackaged" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401671))
- Data called fake or outdated (2 comments): "The problem is that the data it's visualizing is fake." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401401)) "It looks like this is using 2024 data so quite old?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401415))
- Weak treemap and single hierarchy (2 comments): "he doesn't even bother to show more than one-level of hierarchy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47403919)) "This is a surprisingly bad treemap" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401858))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "US Job Market Visualizer by Andrej Karpathy", https://hackerapproved.com/p/us-job-market-visualizer/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).