Generated locally from 88 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 August 2018 and analyzed 867 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 734 to 867 (18.1%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 722 to 867 (20.1%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 516 mentions (59.52% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Blockchain (+215 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: D3.js (-62 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-20180801-go.js and summary-20180801-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 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | +2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | +2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 5 | +1 | 3 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 8 | +3 | 6 | +1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 4 | -2 | 2 | -4 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 6 | -2 | 8 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 10 | +1 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 10 | 11 | +1 | 11 | +1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 12 | +1 | 15 | +4 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 12 | 13 | +1 | 9 | -3 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 15 | +2 | 13 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 14 | 10 | -4 | 12 | -2 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 15 | 20 | +5 | 17 | +2 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 16 | 14 | -2 | 20 | +4 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 17 | 17 | 0 | 14 | -3 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 18 | 23 | +5 | 16 | -2 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 19 | 18 | -1 | 25 | +6 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 20 | 19 | -1 | 21 | +1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 20 | 61 | 0 | 276 | +215 |
| Ethereum | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 10 | 98 | 1 | 211 | +113 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 7 | 115 | 1 | 225 | +110 |
| DynamoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, cloud, aws | 8 | 105 | 1 | 208 | +103 |
| ECS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, container, aws, infrastructure | 7 | 112 | 1 | 209 | +97 |
| Kotlin | Technology | Language | language, mobile, backend, jvm | 17 | 70 | 3 | 159 | +89 |
| Firebase | Technology | Cloud | cloud, backend, mobile, google | 6 | 130 | 1 | 214 | +84 |
| Bash | Technology | Language | language, scripting, shell, systems | 6 | 124 | 1 | 202 | +78 |
| Airflow | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, orchestration, pipeline, workflow | 10 | 96 | 2 | 168 | +72 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 7 | 118 | 2 | 188 | +70 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 6 | 127 | 15 | 65 | -62 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 123 | 11 | 79 | -44 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 125 | 10 | 86 | -39 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 8 | 109 | 13 | 71 | -38 |
| NLP | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, nlp, natural-language-processing | 10 | 99 | 16 | 63 | -36 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 9 | 101 | 15 | 66 | -35 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 142 | 6 | 107 | -35 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 8 | 104 | 12 | 72 | -32 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 6 | 135 | 7 | 104 | -31 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 10 | 97 | 13 | 68 | -29 |
Target month: August 2018
Target postings: 867
Threads analyzed: 88