Generated locally from 45 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 January 2015 and analyzed 271 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 463 to 271 (-41.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 222 to 271 (22.1%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 86 mentions (31.73% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: React (+357 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Web Services (-28 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-20150101-go.js and summary-20150101-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 | 1 | 0 | 2 | +1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 2 | 4 | +2 | 4 | +2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 3 | 2 | -1 | 1 | -2 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 4 | 3 | -1 | 3 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | +1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 7 | +1 | 5 | -1 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 8 | +1 | 7 | 0 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 8 | 6 | -2 | 11 | +3 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 9 | 10 | +1 | 8 | -1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 10 | 9 | -1 | 10 | 0 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 11 | 12 | +1 | 9 | -2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 12 | 11 | -1 | 23 | +11 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 13 | 16 | +3 | 29 | +16 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 14 | 14 | 0 | 13 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 15 | 13 | -2 | 40 | +25 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 16 | 23 | +7 | 34 | +18 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 17 | 15 | -2 | 14 | -3 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 18 | 21 | +3 | 12 | -6 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 19 | 20 | +1 | 35 | +16 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 20 | 17 | -3 | 16 | -4 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 64 | 0 | 421 | +357 |
| R | Technology | Language | language, data, statistics, ml | 8 | 61 | 0 | 414 | +353 |
| Jenkins | Technology | Tooling | ci, devops, developer-tooling, ci-cd | 7 | 63 | 0 | 321 | +258 |
| Gulp | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, tooling | 6 | 68 | 0 | 306 | +238 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 10 | 51 | 0 | 245 | +194 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 5 | 76 | 0 | 174 | +98 |
| RabbitMQ | Technology | Backend | messaging, backend, distributed, queue | 6 | 72 | 1 | 149 | +77 |
| WordPress | Technology | Backend | backend, cms, php, web | 5 | 89 | 1 | 160 | +71 |
| TDD | Process | Methodology | testing, process, agile, methodology | 5 | 88 | 1 | 155 | +67 |
| Swift | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 5 | 87 | 1 | 153 | +66 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 6 | 75 | 8 | 47 | -28 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 14 | 40 | 19 | 17 | -23 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 8 | 59 | 11 | 37 | -22 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 5 | 85 | 5 | 63 | -22 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 7 | 62 | 8 | 45 | -17 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 6 | 69 | 7 | 52 | -17 |
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 6 | 67 | 7 | 51 | -16 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 15 | 35 | 17 | 21 | -14 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 15 | 36 | 17 | 22 | -14 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 12 | 46 | 12 | 32 | -14 |
Target month: January 2015
Target postings: 271
Threads analyzed: 45