Generated locally from 29 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 September 2013 and analyzed 238 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 306 to 238 (-22.2%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 212 to 238 (12.3%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 58 mentions (24.37% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Robotics (+364 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: C (-39 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-20130901-go.js and summary-20130901-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
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| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 1 | 3 | +2 | 2 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 2 | 1 | -1 | 4 | +2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 3 | 7 | +4 | 6 | +3 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 4 | 16 | +12 | 9 | +5 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 5 | 4 | -1 | 1 | -4 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 6 | 2 | -4 | 3 | -3 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 7 | 13 | +6 | 13 | +6 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 8 | 12 | +4 | 10 | +2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 9 | 11 | +2 | 19 | +10 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 10 | 15 | +5 | 5 | -5 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 11 | 5 | -6 | 8 | -3 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 12 | 23 | +11 | 173 | +161 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 13 | 9 | -4 | 16 | +3 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 14 | 33 | +19 | 15 | +1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 15 | 6 | -9 | 7 | -8 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 16 | 8 | -8 | 14 | -2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 17 | 24 | +7 | 41 | +24 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 18 | 22 | +4 | 24 | +6 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 19 | 17 | -2 | 32 | +13 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 20 | 32 | +12 | 26 | +6 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 5 | 66 | 0 | 430 | +364 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 59 | 0 | 414 | +355 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 48 | 0 | 264 | +216 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 25 | 12 | 0 | 173 | +161 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 6 | 57 | 1 | 133 | +76 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 6 | 54 | 1 | 113 | +59 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 55 | 1 | 114 | +59 |
| Embedded Systems | Technology | Infrastructure | embedded, systems, hardware, iot | 5 | 63 | 1 | 117 | +54 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 8 | 47 | 2 | 88 | +41 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 6 | 56 | 2 | 86 | +30 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 7 | 50 | 20 | 11 | -39 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 64 | 12 | 28 | -36 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 12 | 38 | 20 | 12 | -26 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 10 | 42 | 18 | 17 | -25 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 58 | 8 | 42 | -16 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 9 | 44 | 12 | 30 | -14 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 13 | 35 | 14 | 22 | -13 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 12 | 39 | 12 | 27 | -12 |
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 5 | 62 | 6 | 50 | -12 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 5 | 67 | 5 | 55 | -12 |
Target month: September 2013
Target postings: 238
Threads analyzed: 29