Generated locally from 56 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 December 2015 and analyzed 358 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 701 to 358 (-48.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 463 to 358 (-22.7%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 145 mentions (40.50% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Redux (+349 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: REST (-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-20151201-go.js and summary-20151201-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 1 | 0 | 66 | +65 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 5 | 7 | +2 | 3 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 8 | +2 | 7 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 7 | 9 | +2 | 2 | -5 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 8 | 5 | -3 | 11 | +3 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 9 | 6 | -3 | 12 | +3 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 10 | 10 | 0 | 6 | -4 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 11 | 17 | +6 | 23 | +12 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 12 | 12 | 0 | 55 | +43 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 13 | 16 | +3 | 8 | -5 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 14 | 20 | +6 | 20 | +6 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 15 | 13 | -2 | 17 | +2 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 16 | 15 | -1 | 13 | -3 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 17 | 11 | -6 | 16 | -1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 18 | 23 | +5 | 19 | +1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 19 | 14 | -5 | 9 | -10 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 20 | 21 | +1 | 10 | -10 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redux | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, state-management, react | 5 | 86 | 0 | 435 | +349 |
| React Native | Technology | Mobile | mobile, frontend, javascript, react | 5 | 85 | 0 | 433 | +348 |
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 6 | 79 | 1 | 217 | +138 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 10 | 56 | 1 | 186 | +130 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 6 | 71 | 1 | 170 | +99 |
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 8 | 64 | 2 | 161 | +97 |
| SRE | Work Attribute | Work Area | sre, observability, infrastructure, work-area | 9 | 63 | 3 | 146 | +83 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 145 | 1 | 13 | 66 | +65 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 9 | 61 | 4 | 115 | +54 |
| NLP | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, nlp, natural-language-processing | 5 | 84 | 3 | 138 | +54 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 6 | 77 | 31 | 38 | -39 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 6 | 74 | 31 | 36 | -38 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 6 | 75 | 31 | 37 | -38 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 13 | 45 | 60 | 14 | -31 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 5 | 87 | 16 | 60 | -27 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 16 | 41 | 52 | 18 | -23 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 12 | 51 | 32 | 34 | -17 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 15 | 42 | 38 | 26 | -16 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 20 | 30 | 57 | 15 | -15 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 10 | 57 | 24 | 43 | -14 |
Target month: December 2015
Target postings: 358
Threads analyzed: 56