Why not just include Who's Hiring as a top level navigation item. If it's that popular perhaps it deserves it's own archive/timeline.

I agree, and while it's not the same, you can always look through the submissions of the account.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Now if it didn't become a feature of some sort, it could still become an addition to a plugin for small convenience (or a Stylish script or something).

uhh, the first point references wikipedia... I'm not sure if I trust the authors

They are using it to define the word, that is a perfectly reasonable thing to do from Wikipedia.

Unless this some academic joke flying over my head, the author's contact info is listed as "firstname.lastname@oxford-biochron.com". This report seems hastily thrown together, but that doesn't necessarily invalidate the results. It'd be interesting to see others run it or comment from Google.

That's commonly done in a bunch of academic papers where authors are from the same institution - saves space mostly

That is not a joke. That is either email address obfuscation or to save characters.