Generated locally from 19 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 November 2012 and analyzed 219 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 247 to 219 (-11.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 230 to 219 (-4.8%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 52 mentions (23.74% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Objective-C (+62 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Agile (-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-20121101-go.js and summary-20121101-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 | 3 | +2 | 1 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 2 | 7 | +5 | 4 | +2 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 2 | -1 | 8 | +5 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 4 | 1 | -3 | 2 | -2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 5 | 6 | +1 | 6 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 12 | +6 | 42 | +36 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 7 | 10 | +3 | 3 | -4 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 8 | 5 | -3 | 12 | +4 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 9 | 8 | -1 | 14 | +5 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 10 | 11 | +1 | 17 | +7 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 11 | 4 | -7 | 5 | -6 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 12 | 13 | +1 | 11 | -1 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 13 | 23 | +10 | 16 | +3 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 14 | 9 | -5 | 13 | -1 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 15 | 14 | -1 | 50 | +35 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 16 | 27 | +11 | 25 | +9 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 17 | 37 | +20 | 52 | +35 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 18 | 17 | -1 | 10 | -8 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 19 | 26 | +7 | 21 | +2 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 20 | 30 | +10 | 35 | +15 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 8 | 47 | 1 | 109 | +62 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 32 | 6 | 6 | 42 | +36 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 19 | 15 | 4 | 50 | +35 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 18 | 17 | 4 | 52 | +35 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 6 | 52 | 2 | 83 | +31 |
| RabbitMQ | Technology | Backend | messaging, backend, distributed, queue | 6 | 51 | 2 | 80 | +29 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 27 | 6 | 43 | +16 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 29 | 6 | 45 | +16 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 17 | 20 | 8 | 35 | +15 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 19 | 16 | 11 | 25 | +9 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 11 | 39 | 17 | 15 | -24 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 6 | 50 | 10 | 28 | -22 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 8 | 48 | 10 | 31 | -17 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 15 | 25 | 22 | 9 | -16 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 17 | 21 | 28 | 7 | -14 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 12 | 38 | 11 | 24 | -14 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 13 | 32 | 14 | 19 | -13 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 18 | 18 | 22 | 10 | -8 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 15 | 26 | 15 | 18 | -8 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 14 | 31 | 12 | 23 | -8 |
Target month: November 2012
Target postings: 219
Threads analyzed: 19