Generated locally from 109 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 May 2020 and analyzed 500 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 457 to 500 (9.4%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 817 to 500 (-38.8%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 253 mentions (50.60% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Spring Boot (+360 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: SQL (-65 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-20200501-go.js and summary-20200501-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 2 | +1 | 6 | +5 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 2 | 1 | -1 | 1 | -1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 5 | +2 | 5 | +2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 4 | 3 | -1 | 3 | -1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 6 | +1 | 2 | -3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 4 | -2 | 4 | -2 |
| 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 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 10 | +1 | 9 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 10 | 9 | -1 | 11 | +1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 11 | 18 | +7 | 13 | +2 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 12 | 12 | 0 | 18 | +6 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 13 | 13 | 0 | 10 | -3 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 14 | 15 | +1 | 16 | +2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 15 | 16 | +1 | 15 | 0 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 16 | 14 | -2 | 20 | +4 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 17 | 11 | -6 | 14 | -3 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 18 | 20 | +2 | 17 | -1 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 19 | 17 | -2 | 12 | -7 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 20 | 19 | -1 | 23 | +3 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Boot | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 5 | 99 | 0 | 459 | +360 |
| Next.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 6 | 87 | 1 | 242 | +155 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 8 | 78 | 3 | 167 | +89 |
| ASP | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, web | 5 | 91 | 3 | 151 | +60 |
| Jest | Technology | Testing | testing, frontend, javascript, react | 5 | 97 | 3 | 156 | +59 |
| Oracle | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, relational | 5 | 98 | 4 | 143 | +45 |
| GitLab | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 7 | 80 | 6 | 118 | +38 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 6 | 84 | 6 | 119 | +35 |
| Express | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, javascript, node | 9 | 68 | 8 | 101 | +33 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 6 | 86 | 7 | 110 | +24 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 5 | 100 | 37 | 35 | -65 |
| Kafka | Technology | Data Engineering | streaming, messaging, distributed, backend | 9 | 71 | 28 | 44 | -27 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 5 | 92 | 15 | 68 | -24 |
| FIX | Technology | Data Encoding | data-encoding, protocol, financial-services, messaging | 5 | 94 | 15 | 70 | -24 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 10 | 66 | 28 | 43 | -23 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 13 | 50 | 47 | 30 | -20 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 12 | 54 | 37 | 34 | -20 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 12 | 56 | 32 | 39 | -17 |
| Redux | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, state-management, react | 14 | 48 | 41 | 32 | -16 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 12 | 58 | 28 | 42 | -16 |
Target month: May 2020
Target postings: 500
Threads analyzed: 109