Generated locally from 15 historical hiring threads with the expanded Go dictionary.
Generated on Sunday, June 21, 2026 from the target Hacker News thread.
History chart
Selected terms
Category, family, tags, and latest month metrics.
| Term | Kind | Family | Tags | Latest count | Latest % | Latest rank | Total mentions |
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Geography
| Location | Weighted | Mentions | Companies | Top City | Work Mode Mix |
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This page was generated by the Go pipeline for July 2012 and analyzed 189 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 226 to 189 (-16.4%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 254 to 189 (-25.6%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 41 mentions (21.69% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: SDK (+374 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: C++ (-24 rank positions).
This Go-generated page reuses the frontend charting assets, but renders from Go templates and a Go-generated dataset.
Artifacts for this run: data-20120701-go.js and summary-20120701-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 1 | 5 | +4 | 2 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 2 | 6 | +4 | 1 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 1 | -2 | 4 | +1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 4 | 2 | -2 | 3 | -1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 5 | 4 | -1 | 6 | +1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 6 | 3 | -3 | 7 | +1 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 30 | +23 | 54 | +47 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 8 | 13 | +5 | 9 | +1 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 9 | 18 | +9 | 12 | +3 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 10 | 15 | +5 | 16 | +6 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 11 | 14 | +3 | 56 | +45 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 12 | 26 | +14 | 8 | -4 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 13 | 27 | +14 | 10 | -3 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 14 | 11 | -3 | 11 | -3 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 15 | 7 | -8 | 5 | -10 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 16 | 8 | -8 | 25 | +9 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 17 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 18 | 19 | +1 | 21 | +3 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 19 | 12 | -7 | 15 | -4 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 20 | 9 | -11 | 38 | +18 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 5 | 51 | 0 | 425 | +374 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 44 | 0 | 402 | +358 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 6 | 46 | 1 | 109 | +63 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 25 | 7 | 3 | 54 | +47 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 19 | 11 | 3 | 56 | +45 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 14 | 21 | 3 | 55 | +34 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 6 | 45 | 2 | 77 | +32 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 11 | 30 | 2 | 58 | +28 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 7 | 39 | 2 | 65 | +26 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 40 | 2 | 61 | +21 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 7 | 37 | 18 | 13 | -24 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 9 | 35 | 17 | 14 | -21 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 33 | 12 | 19 | -14 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 10 | 32 | 12 | 20 | -12 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 18 | 15 | 33 | 5 | -10 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 8 | 36 | 10 | 26 | -10 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 11 | 31 | 11 | 23 | -8 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 6 | 48 | 6 | 41 | -7 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 5 | 49 | 5 | 42 | -7 |
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 6 | 41 | 6 | 35 | -6 |
Target month: July 2012
Target postings: 189
Threads analyzed: 15