Generated locally from 68 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 December 2016 and analyzed 633 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 838 to 633 (-24.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 358 to 633 (76.8%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 319 mentions (50.39% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Vue (+403 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: SDK (-52 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-20161201-go.js and summary-20161201-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 | 1 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 4 | +1 | 3 | 0 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 3 | -1 | 4 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 5 | 7 | +2 | 5 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 5 | -1 | 8 | +2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 6 | -1 | 12 | +5 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 9 | +1 | 6 | -2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 9 | 8 | -1 | 7 | -2 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 17 | +7 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 11 | 13 | +2 | 11 | 0 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 12 | 18 | +6 | 15 | +3 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 11 | -2 | 16 | +3 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 14 | 16 | +2 | 18 | +4 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 15 | 17 | +2 | 20 | +5 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 16 | 21 | +5 | 19 | +3 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 17 | 12 | -5 | 10 | -7 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 18 | 19 | +1 | 21 | +3 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 19 | 15 | -4 | 9 | -10 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 20 | 14 | -6 | 14 | -6 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vue | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 89 | 0 | 492 | +403 |
| Terraform | Technology | Infrastructure | iac, infrastructure, cloud, devops | 5 | 119 | 0 | 469 | +350 |
| Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 9 | 87 | 0 | 356 | +269 |
| GraphQL | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, query-language | 6 | 105 | 0 | 324 | +219 |
| ASP.NET MVC | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, dotnet | 7 | 96 | 0 | 223 | +127 |
| memcached | Technology | Database | cache, database, backend, storage | 7 | 99 | 1 | 179 | +80 |
| FIX | Technology | Data Encoding | data-encoding, protocol, financial-services, messaging | 9 | 83 | 1 | 161 | +78 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 108 | 1 | 184 | +76 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 13 | 69 | 2 | 138 | +69 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 5 | 118 | 1 | 185 | +67 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 7 | 102 | 12 | 50 | -52 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 6 | 106 | 9 | 61 | -45 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 8 | 91 | 12 | 48 | -43 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 6 | 103 | 9 | 60 | -43 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 117 | 6 | 76 | -41 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 13 | 67 | 17 | 37 | -30 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 11 | 70 | 16 | 40 | -30 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 9 | 81 | 9 | 59 | -22 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 6 | 109 | 5 | 87 | -22 |
| Data Science | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data, ml, analytics, statistics | 24 | 45 | 21 | 27 | -18 |
Target month: December 2016
Target postings: 633
Threads analyzed: 68