Generated locally from 52 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 August 2015 and analyzed 785 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 835 to 785 (-6.0%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 477 to 785 (64.6%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 265 mentions (33.76% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Mesos (+262 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: JSON (-58 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-20150801-go.js and summary-20150801-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
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| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 1 | 0 | 47 | +46 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -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 | 4 | 0 | 3 | -1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 6 | 0 | 9 | +3 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 8 | +1 | 5 | -2 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 8 | 9 | +1 | 7 | -1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 9 | 7 | -2 | 12 | +3 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 10 | 15 | +5 | 6 | -4 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 11 | 10 | -1 | 8 | -3 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 12 | 16 | +4 | 13 | +1 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 13 | 14 | +1 | 22 | +9 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 14 | 11 | -3 | 10 | -4 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 15 | 18 | +3 | 11 | -4 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 16 | 13 | -3 | 14 | -2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 17 | 20 | +3 | 72 | +55 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 18 | 12 | -6 | 23 | +5 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 19 | 19 | 0 | 21 | +2 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 20 | 25 | +5 | 28 | +8 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesos | Technology | Infrastructure | orchestration, infrastructure, distributed, devops | 5 | 123 | 0 | 385 | +262 |
| Flux | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, gitops, devops, infrastructure | 16 | 62 | 0 | 322 | +260 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 13 | 71 | 0 | 309 | +238 |
| Pandas | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data-science, python, analytics, data-analysis | 8 | 94 | 1 | 208 | +114 |
| Phoenix | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, elixir, web | 6 | 111 | 1 | 209 | +98 |
| Deep Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, neural-networks | 8 | 92 | 1 | 183 | +91 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 7 | 103 | 1 | 194 | +91 |
| Fintech | Domain | Industry | industry, finance, domain, technology | 7 | 101 | 1 | 188 | +87 |
| Laravel | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, php, php-framework | 5 | 121 | 1 | 200 | +79 |
| Lua | Technology | Language | language, scripting, embedded, gaming | 5 | 122 | 1 | 201 | +79 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JSON | Technology | Data Encoding | data-encoding, data-format, text, api | 5 | 120 | 13 | 62 | -58 |
| Sinatra | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 5 | 124 | 9 | 76 | -48 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 18 | 59 | 41 | 24 | -35 |
| ASP | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, web | 6 | 107 | 9 | 73 | -34 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 8 | 91 | 14 | 59 | -32 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 8 | 98 | 11 | 68 | -30 |
| memcached | Technology | Database | cache, database, backend, storage | 6 | 110 | 8 | 80 | -30 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 8 | 90 | 11 | 64 | -26 |
| ASP.NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, dotnet | 6 | 108 | 7 | 82 | -26 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 32 | 44 | 46 | 19 | -25 |
Target month: August 2015
Target postings: 785
Threads analyzed: 52