Generated locally from 33 historical hiring threads with the expanded Go dictionary.
Generated on Sunday, June 21, 2026 from the target Hacker News thread.
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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 January 2014 and analyzed 222 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 262 to 222 (-15.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 191 to 222 (16.2%).
Top term this month: JavaScript at rank 1 with 59 mentions (26.58% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Angular (+82 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Scala (-37 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-20140101-go.js and summary-20140101-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
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| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 1 | 5 | +4 | 1 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 1 | -3 | 4 | 0 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 6 | +1 | 9 | +4 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 8 | +2 | 15 | +9 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 9 | +2 | 89 | +82 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 8 | 12 | +4 | 6 | -2 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 9 | 7 | -2 | 17 | +8 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 10 | 10 | 0 | 5 | -5 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 11 | 4 | -7 | 7 | -4 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 12 | 16 | +4 | 14 | +2 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 13 | 33 | +20 | 12 | -1 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 14 | 19 | +5 | 11 | -3 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 15 | 13 | -2 | 23 | +8 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 16 | 14 | -2 | 8 | -8 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 17 | 18 | +1 | 13 | -4 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 18 | 38 | +20 | 33 | +15 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 19 | 36 | +17 | 20 | +1 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 20 | 32 | +12 | 10 | -10 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 32 | 7 | 2 | 89 | +82 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 8 | 47 | 2 | 109 | +62 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 59 | 2 | 107 | +48 |
| Data Science | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data, ml, analytics, statistics | 7 | 50 | 2 | 91 | +41 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 17 | 22 | 7 | 53 | +31 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 11 | 37 | 4 | 67 | +30 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 5 | 63 | 3 | 83 | +20 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 18 | 18 | 12 | 33 | +15 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 12 | 36 | 8 | 50 | +14 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 8 | 45 | 5 | 59 | +14 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 6 | 58 | 16 | 21 | -37 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 7 | 49 | 16 | 18 | -31 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 6 | 54 | 12 | 32 | -22 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 10 | 41 | 13 | 27 | -14 |
| Flask | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 5 | 61 | 8 | 47 | -14 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 11 | 39 | 13 | 28 | -11 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 11 | 40 | 13 | 29 | -11 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 18 | 20 | 25 | 10 | -10 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 8 | 44 | 11 | 34 | -10 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 19 | 16 | 30 | 8 | -8 |
Target month: January 2014
Target postings: 222
Threads analyzed: 33