Recruiters do reach out to people but HN front page is a bad way to get attention.
First, you have no control over that. Second, it only lasts for a day.
The right way to do it is to build long-term credibility by:
- having a personal website (https://blog.kowalczyk.info/) with basic information about you , your up-to-date resume (e.g. https://blog.kowalczyk.info/static/resume.html) and a way to contact you (e.g. https://blog.kowalczyk.info/contactme.html)
- blogging on deeply technical topics. Avoid rants and anything that is not about technology. The "deeper" the topic, the better. (note that my older posts can be ranty; newer are not).
- do interesting, open-source projects. Have them on GitHub. On your website, create a "portfolio" section that summarizes the projects (https://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/ but it's far from the best portfolio design)
- for inbound recruiter requests have linkedin profile. The quality will be lower than those who contact you via website, but it's easy to ignore bad recruitment pitches
I do get contacted by recruiters. It resulted in one job and I do believe that portfolio of projects helps me when interviewing.
This is a very long-term strategy. My website is 10+ years of accumulated work.
In the short term, on 1st of every month HN has "Who's hiring thread". Apply for jobs listed there or in other high-quality places like https://stackoverflow.com/jobs
