Generated locally from 42 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 October 2014 and analyzed 351 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 279 to 351 (25.8%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 423 to 351 (-17.0%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 113 mentions (32.19% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: React (+348 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: nginx (-33 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-20141001-go.js and summary-20141001-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 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 0 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 2 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 4 | +1 | 4 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 4 | 3 | -1 | 3 | -1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 | +2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 7 | +1 | 10 | +4 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 7 | 6 | -1 | 5 | -2 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 8 | 10 | +2 | 6 | -2 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 10 | 8 | -2 | 8 | -2 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 11 | 13 | +2 | 15 | +4 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 12 | 20 | +8 | 11 | -1 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 13 | 11 | -2 | 19 | +6 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 14 | 12 | -2 | 29 | +15 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 24 | +9 | 17 | +2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 16 | 16 | 0 | 12 | -4 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 17 | 19 | +2 | 18 | +1 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 18 | 41 | +23 | 35 | +17 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 19 | 14 | -5 | 30 | +11 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 20 | 17 | -3 | 25 | +5 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 84 | 0 | 432 | +348 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 10 | 60 | 1 | 142 | +82 |
| Maven | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, build, java, build-tool | 5 | 91 | 1 | 164 | +73 |
| Bitcoin | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 5 | 87 | 1 | 146 | +59 |
| Shell | Technology | Language | language, scripting, systems, cli | 8 | 72 | 2 | 130 | +58 |
| XML | Technology | Data Encoding | data-encoding, data-format, text, api | 6 | 86 | 2 | 139 | +53 |
| SRE | Work Attribute | Work Area | sre, observability, infrastructure, work-area | 6 | 85 | 2 | 132 | +47 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 12 | 53 | 3 | 99 | +46 |
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 12 | 56 | 4 | 96 | +40 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 5 | 89 | 2 | 122 | +33 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 5 | 92 | 10 | 59 | -33 |
| Knockout | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 90 | 8 | 64 | -26 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 11 | 59 | 18 | 39 | -20 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 8 | 71 | 13 | 51 | -20 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 24 | 32 | 37 | 14 | -18 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 22 | 34 | 36 | 16 | -18 |
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 7 | 75 | 11 | 57 | -18 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 19 | 42 | 27 | 26 | -16 |
| LAMP | Technology | Backend | backend, stack, php, linux | 6 | 81 | 8 | 65 | -16 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 10 | 62 | 13 | 49 | -13 |
Target month: October 2014
Target postings: 351
Threads analyzed: 42