US Job Market Visualizer by Andrej Karpathy
Shares rank 21 of 31 interactive visualizations by recommenders
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.
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.
15 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 10
- approval share
- 33%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Challenges white-collar replacement narrative
“I enjoy that this visualization directly contradicts the mainstream narrative that white collar work is being replaced by blue collar work.”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy” “Love this. My only critique is that this perspective may lend credence to doomerism”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Looks like AI slop
“This is an AI slop website the same as spammed on Show HN”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy” “Putting aside the slop facade place atop the data”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy” “it's pretty much just AI slop repackaged”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy” - Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy”
Data called fake or outdated
“The problem is that the data it's visualizing is fake.”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy” “It looks like this is using 2024 data so quite old?”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy” Weak treemap and single hierarchy
“he doesn't even bother to show more than one-level of hierarchy”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy” “This is a surprisingly bad treemap”
Comment from 16 Mar 2026 in “US Job Market Visualizer – Andrej Karpathy”
Other interactive visualizations people recommend
The four most recommended other interactive visualizations, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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| ciechanow.ski | 33 | 1 | 97% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Size of Life | 30 | 4 | 88% | 2 | — | — |
| PGSimCity | 27 | 3 | 90% | 1 | — | — |
| Ithihāsas | 18 | 3 | 86% | 1 | — | — |
| US Job Market Visualizer by Andrej KarpathyThis page | 5 | 10 | 33% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
14 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Love this. My only critique is that this perspective may lend credence to doomerism”
“he doesn't even bother to show more than one-level of hierarchy”
“It just comes up a black screen for me.”
“In my experience, using an LLM for scoring things usually produces arbitrary results.”
“This is a surprisingly bad treemap”
“Putting aside the slop facade place atop the data”
“it's pretty much just AI slop repackaged”
“It looks like this is using 2024 data so quite old?”
“The problem is that the data it's visualizing is fake.”
“I enjoy that this visualization directly contradicts the mainstream narrative that white collar work is being replaced by blue collar work.”
“I have deuteranopia and can't distinguish red from green in the page.”
“Not much useful in mobile.”
“this is low-effort AI slop”
“This is an AI slop website the same as spammed on Show HN”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.