Generated locally from 108 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 2020 and analyzed 457 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 644 to 457 (-29.0%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 741 to 457 (-38.3%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 220 mentions (48.14% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Next.js (+136 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: MySQL (-39 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-20200401-go.js and summary-20200401-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 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | +1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 4 | +1 | 6 | +3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 4 | 6 | +2 | 5 | +1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | -1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 3 | -3 | 2 | -4 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 7 | 7 | 0 | 8 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 9 | 11 | +2 | 10 | +1 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 9 | -1 | 9 | -1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 10 | -1 | 14 | +3 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 12 | 13 | +1 | 24 | +12 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 13 | 18 | +5 | 11 | -2 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 14 | 19 | +5 | 20 | +6 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 15 | 14 | -1 | 15 | 0 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 16 | 15 | -1 | 12 | -4 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 17 | 16 | -1 | 16 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 18 | 12 | -6 | 13 | -5 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 19 | 27 | +8 | 28 | +9 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 20 | 17 | -3 | 17 | -3 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 5 | 90 | 1 | 226 | +136 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 7 | 76 | 4 | 134 | +58 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 7 | 78 | 5 | 127 | +49 |
| Serverless | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, architecture | 7 | 79 | 6 | 118 | +39 |
| Computer Vision | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, computer-vision, vision | 11 | 54 | 9 | 90 | +36 |
| Apollo | Technology | Backend | backend, api, graphql, javascript | 8 | 73 | 6 | 108 | +35 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 14 | 43 | 13 | 74 | +31 |
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 17 | 39 | 15 | 68 | +29 |
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 9 | 67 | 8 | 96 | +29 |
| Bash | Technology | Language | language, scripting, shell, systems | 6 | 81 | 6 | 110 | +29 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 6 | 83 | 27 | 44 | -39 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 8 | 72 | 27 | 43 | -29 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 10 | 62 | 36 | 36 | -26 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 64 | 32 | 39 | -25 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 10 | 63 | 29 | 41 | -22 |
| Kafka | Technology | Data Engineering | streaming, messaging, distributed, backend | 9 | 68 | 25 | 49 | -19 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 9 | 69 | 25 | 50 | -19 |
| Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 6 | 82 | 16 | 65 | -17 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 13 | 47 | 40 | 31 | -16 |
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 9 | 70 | 23 | 54 | -16 |
Target month: April 2020
Target postings: 457
Threads analyzed: 108