Generated locally from 116 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 December 2020 and analyzed 685 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 692 to 685 (-1.0%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 585 to 685 (17.1%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 472 mentions (68.91% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Nuxt (+288 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: S3 (-51 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-20201201-go.js and summary-20201201-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | +1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | +2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 4 | +1 | 3 | 0 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 4 | 3 | -1 | 5 | +1 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | -4 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 7 | 7 | 0 | 6 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 10 | 11 | +1 | 18 | +8 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 10 | -1 | 14 | +3 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 13 | +1 | 11 | -1 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 13 | 12 | -1 | 12 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 17 | +3 | 15 | +1 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 15 | 14 | -1 | 10 | -5 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 18 | +2 | 17 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 17 | 15 | -2 | 16 | -1 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 18 | 16 | -2 | 13 | -5 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 19 | 24 | +5 | 26 | +7 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 20 | 23 | +3 | 21 | +1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nuxt | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, vue | 5 | 118 | 0 | 406 | +288 |
| NumPy | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data-science, python, ml, math | 5 | 117 | 0 | 404 | +287 |
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 7 | 104 | 1 | 250 | +146 |
| Pandas | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data-science, python, analytics, data-analysis | 6 | 110 | 1 | 230 | +120 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 9 | 89 | 1 | 207 | +118 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 5 | 121 | 1 | 236 | +115 |
| GPU | Technology | Processing | processing, hardware, ml, hpc | 5 | 115 | 1 | 205 | +90 |
| PyTorch | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 8 | 95 | 2 | 175 | +80 |
| Flutter | Technology | Mobile | mobile, frontend, dart, cross-platform | 6 | 108 | 2 | 164 | +56 |
| BigQuery | Technology | Database | database, analytics, cloud, storage | 5 | 111 | 2 | 159 | +48 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 5 | 120 | 12 | 69 | -51 |
| SQS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, messaging, aws, backend | 5 | 123 | 8 | 89 | -34 |
| GitLab | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 5 | 114 | 9 | 84 | -30 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 9 | 91 | 13 | 64 | -27 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 16 | 61 | 26 | 38 | -23 |
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 14 | 72 | 18 | 51 | -21 |
| GCP | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, google, infrastructure | 14 | 69 | 19 | 49 | -20 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 8 | 96 | 11 | 76 | -20 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 10 | 87 | 12 | 71 | -16 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 14 | 71 | 15 | 58 | -13 |
Target month: December 2020
Target postings: 685
Threads analyzed: 116