Generated locally from 84 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 April 2018 and analyzed 840 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 866 to 840 (-3.0%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 711 to 840 (18.1%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 505 mentions (60.12% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Ethereum (+215 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Chef (-46 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-20180401-go.js and summary-20180401-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 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 3 | 6 | +3 | 5 | +2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 4 | 3 | -1 | 7 | +3 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 5 | 4 | -1 | 4 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 5 | -1 | 3 | -3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 8 | +1 | 6 | -1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 7 | -1 | 8 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 10 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 10 | 10 | 0 | 9 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 11 | 0 | 13 | +2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 12 | 14 | +2 | 11 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 12 | -1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 14 | 12 | -2 | 18 | +4 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 15 | 15 | 0 | 16 | +1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 16 | 16 | 0 | 14 | -2 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 17 | 20 | +3 | 22 | +5 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 18 | 17 | -1 | 17 | -1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 19 | 18 | -1 | 15 | -4 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 20 | 19 | -1 | 21 | +1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 8 | 106 | 0 | 321 | +215 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 7 | 116 | 1 | 226 | +110 |
| Kotlin | Technology | Language | language, mobile, backend, jvm | 16 | 75 | 2 | 174 | +99 |
| gRPC | Technology | Backend | backend, api, rpc, distributed | 6 | 124 | 1 | 217 | +93 |
| AWS Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 7 | 109 | 1 | 194 | +85 |
| Hive | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, sql, distributed, data | 5 | 135 | 1 | 220 | +85 |
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 20 | 61 | 3 | 144 | +83 |
| GPU | Technology | Processing | processing, hardware, ml, hpc | 5 | 134 | 1 | 215 | +81 |
| Zookeeper | Technology | Infrastructure | distributed, infrastructure, coordination, data | 7 | 121 | 2 | 189 | +68 |
| Airflow | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, orchestration, pipeline, workflow | 5 | 131 | 1 | 191 | +60 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 7 | 112 | 14 | 66 | -46 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 7 | 110 | 14 | 65 | -45 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 9 | 98 | 20 | 56 | -42 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 7 | 115 | 12 | 75 | -40 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 6 | 126 | 10 | 86 | -40 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 97 | 14 | 64 | -33 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 8 | 108 | 12 | 76 | -32 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 18 | 67 | 30 | 38 | -29 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 15 | 76 | 24 | 48 | -28 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 6 | 130 | 8 | 102 | -28 |
Target month: April 2018
Target postings: 840
Threads analyzed: 84