Generated locally from 105 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 2020 and analyzed 574 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 585 to 574 (-1.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 766 to 574 (-25.1%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 329 mentions (57.32% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: nginx (+84 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Blockchain (-43 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-20200101-go.js and summary-20200101-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 | 8 | +6 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 5 | +2 | 3 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | -2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 5 | 3 | -2 | 4 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 8 | +1 | 7 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 8 | 7 | -1 | 5 | -3 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 10 | 15 | +5 | 13 | +3 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 14 | +3 | 11 | 0 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 12 | 10 | -2 | 15 | +3 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 13 | 11 | -2 | 14 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 14 | 16 | +2 | 12 | -2 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 15 | 18 | +3 | 25 | +10 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 17 | +1 | 16 | 0 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 17 | 12 | -5 | 10 | -7 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 18 | 13 | -5 | 21 | +3 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 19 | 25 | +6 | 19 | 0 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 20 | 22 | +2 | 18 | -2 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 5 | 112 | 2 | 196 | +84 |
| Snowflake | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, analytics | 5 | 118 | 2 | 201 | +83 |
| HAProxy | Technology | Network | network, load-balancing, infrastructure, networking | 5 | 110 | 3 | 165 | +55 |
| Airflow | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, orchestration, pipeline, workflow | 11 | 69 | 5 | 123 | +54 |
| Grafana | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, visualization | 5 | 109 | 3 | 162 | +53 |
| BigQuery | Technology | Database | database, analytics, cloud, storage | 7 | 90 | 4 | 136 | +46 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 13 | 67 | 7 | 108 | +41 |
| AR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, ar | 6 | 93 | 4 | 134 | +41 |
| Laravel | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, php, php-framework | 7 | 91 | 5 | 129 | +38 |
| Electron | Technology | Frontend | frontend, desktop, javascript, cross-platform | 9 | 81 | 6 | 115 | +34 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 5 | 107 | 19 | 64 | -43 |
| Redshift | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, aws | 5 | 115 | 14 | 77 | -38 |
| FIX | Technology | Data Encoding | data-encoding, protocol, financial-services, messaging | 6 | 97 | 18 | 69 | -28 |
| R | Technology | Language | language, data, statistics, ml | 5 | 114 | 12 | 86 | -28 |
| NLP | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, nlp, natural-language-processing | 7 | 92 | 19 | 68 | -24 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 17 | 57 | 40 | 34 | -23 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 17 | 54 | 43 | 32 | -22 |
| Webpack | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, build-tool | 6 | 103 | 13 | 83 | -20 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 13 | 68 | 27 | 51 | -17 |
| Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 9 | 84 | 19 | 67 | -17 |
Target month: January 2020
Target postings: 574
Threads analyzed: 105