Generated locally from 28 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 August 2013 and analyzed 306 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 288 to 306 (6.2%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 244 to 306 (25.4%).
Top term this month: JavaScript at rank 1 with 80 mentions (26.14% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: D3.js (+194 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: C (-21 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-20130801-go.js and summary-20130801-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 2 | 3 | +1 | 3 | +1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 3 | 2 | -1 | 4 | +1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | +2 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 5 | 10 | +5 | 12 | +7 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | -4 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 5 | -2 | 8 | +1 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 11 | +3 | 30 | +22 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 9 | 17 | +8 | 10 | +1 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 10 | 13 | +3 | 14 | +4 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 11 | 8 | -3 | 11 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 12 | 14 | +2 | 16 | +4 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 13 | 9 | -4 | 9 | -4 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 21 | +7 | 31 | +17 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 15 | 12 | -3 | 7 | -8 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 16 | 7 | -9 | 5 | -11 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 17 | 20 | +3 | 21 | +4 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 18 | 19 | +1 | 18 | 0 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 19 | 16 | -3 | 15 | -4 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 20 | 15 | -5 | 13 | -7 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 12 | 49 | 0 | 243 | +194 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 11 | 53 | 1 | 152 | +99 |
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 7 | 69 | 1 | 161 | +92 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 11 | 51 | 1 | 124 | +73 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 5 | 84 | 1 | 155 | +71 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 28 | 23 | 2 | 91 | +68 |
| Data Science | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data, ml, analytics, statistics | 9 | 57 | 2 | 98 | +41 |
| JSON | Technology | Data Encoding | data-encoding, data-format, text, api | 7 | 68 | 2 | 102 | +34 |
| Express | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, javascript, node | 7 | 66 | 2 | 99 | +33 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 77 | 2 | 110 | +33 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 13 | 45 | 17 | 24 | -21 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 9 | 60 | 12 | 39 | -21 |
| Perl | Technology | Language | language, backend, scripting, legacy | 5 | 82 | 5 | 61 | -21 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 74 | 6 | 54 | -20 |
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 8 | 62 | 7 | 44 | -18 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 20 | 33 | 22 | 17 | -16 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 20 | 34 | 22 | 19 | -15 |
| LAMP | Technology | Backend | backend, stack, php, linux | 6 | 73 | 5 | 59 | -14 |
| ASP.NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, dotnet | 5 | 78 | 4 | 64 | -14 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 13 | 48 | 13 | 35 | -13 |
Target month: August 2013
Target postings: 306
Threads analyzed: 28