Generated locally from 81 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 2018 and analyzed 663 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 776 to 663 (-14.6%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 614 to 663 (8.0%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 400 mentions (60.33% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Ethereum (+230 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Hadoop (-50 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-20180101-go.js and summary-20180101-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 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 2 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 3 | 4 | +1 | 3 | 0 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 4 | 2 | -2 | 8 | +4 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 6 | +1 | 5 | 0 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 5 | -1 | 4 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 8 | 0 | 6 | -2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 11 | 13 | +2 | 12 | +1 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 12 | 11 | -1 | 11 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 13 | 12 | -1 | 13 | 0 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 14 | 16 | +2 | 15 | +1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 15 | 18 | +3 | 17 | +2 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 16 | 22 | +6 | 21 | +5 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 17 | 17 | 0 | 14 | -3 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 18 | 14 | -4 | 16 | -2 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 19 | 15 | -4 | 18 | -1 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 20 | 21 | +1 | 22 | +2 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 9 | 88 | 0 | 318 | +230 |
| GraphQL | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, query-language | 13 | 71 | 2 | 175 | +104 |
| App Engine | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, google, backend | 5 | 116 | 1 | 195 | +79 |
| ETL | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, processing, pipeline, data | 8 | 96 | 2 | 170 | +74 |
| Zookeeper | Technology | Infrastructure | distributed, infrastructure, coordination, data | 5 | 120 | 2 | 192 | +72 |
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 14 | 65 | 4 | 135 | +70 |
| Express | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, javascript, node | 10 | 81 | 3 | 149 | +68 |
| Bitcoin | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 6 | 107 | 2 | 164 | +57 |
| Rust | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 12 | 76 | 5 | 129 | +53 |
| React Native | Technology | Mobile | mobile, frontend, javascript, react | 27 | 44 | 8 | 92 | +48 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 6 | 109 | 15 | 59 | -50 |
| Azure | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, microsoft, infrastructure | 6 | 105 | 13 | 63 | -42 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 9 | 91 | 16 | 55 | -36 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 6 | 108 | 11 | 72 | -36 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 106 | 11 | 71 | -35 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 8 | 95 | 14 | 62 | -33 |
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 13 | 68 | 28 | 41 | -27 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 7 | 101 | 11 | 74 | -27 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 13 | 70 | 25 | 44 | -26 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 27 | 42 | 54 | 19 | -23 |
Target month: January 2018
Target postings: 663
Threads analyzed: 81