Generated locally from 77 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 September 2017 and analyzed 779 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 722 to 779 (7.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 642 to 779 (21.3%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 455 mentions (58.41% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Vue (+164 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Objective-C (-55 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-20170901-go.js and summary-20170901-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 | 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 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 6 | +2 | 6 | +2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 8 | +3 | 9 | +4 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 5 | -1 | 5 | -1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 4 | -3 | 8 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 7 | -1 | 4 | -4 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 10 | +1 | 11 | +2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 10 | 9 | -1 | 7 | -3 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 12 | +1 | 21 | +10 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 12 | 13 | +1 | 18 | +6 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 13 | 11 | -2 | 10 | -3 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 14 | 16 | +2 | 17 | +3 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 15 | 0 | 12 | -3 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 16 | 20 | +4 | 23 | +7 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 17 | 21 | +4 | 13 | -4 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 18 | 17 | -1 | 20 | +2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 19 | 14 | -5 | 14 | -5 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 20 | 22 | +2 | 19 | -1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vue | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 13 | 79 | 1 | 243 | +164 |
| Bitcoin | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 7 | 109 | 0 | 273 | +164 |
| TensorFlow | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, google | 8 | 108 | 1 | 239 | +131 |
| GCP | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, google, infrastructure | 9 | 96 | 1 | 199 | +103 |
| Ethereum | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 8 | 103 | 1 | 195 | +92 |
| Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 11 | 89 | 2 | 170 | +81 |
| Redshift | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, aws | 14 | 73 | 3 | 145 | +72 |
| GraphQL | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, query-language | 17 | 66 | 3 | 137 | +71 |
| Sidekiq | Technology | Backend | backend, job-queue, ruby, task-queue | 8 | 107 | 2 | 175 | +68 |
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 16 | 67 | 3 | 130 | +63 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 5 | 130 | 10 | 75 | -55 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 101 | 22 | 47 | -54 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 7 | 112 | 12 | 73 | -39 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 131 | 7 | 94 | -37 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 9 | 99 | 15 | 64 | -35 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 11 | 90 | 18 | 57 | -33 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 5 | 124 | 7 | 91 | -33 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 7 | 113 | 9 | 83 | -30 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 11 | 88 | 15 | 62 | -26 |
| NLP | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, nlp, natural-language-processing | 10 | 95 | 14 | 69 | -26 |
Target month: September 2017
Target postings: 779
Threads analyzed: 77