When I was ready to move on, to a new opportunity, I spent most of my effort in the HN thread and work for a startup (owned by YC.) And while most applications resulted in no response, that is on par with any other platform. That said, I did hear back from multiple companies! I made it to late stage interview with 3 companies but stopped once I took an offer from one of them. And this was all in the span of 1 month.

As a data point, yes, some companies do hire here. Maybe not all. But I had a great experience through YC.

I think in general, the hiring market is a mess (on both sides) and HN suffers from similar issues.