Generated locally from 117 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 2021 and analyzed 703 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 685 to 703 (2.6%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 574 to 703 (22.5%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 511 mentions (72.69% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: WebRTC (+394 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: K8s (-32 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-20210101-go.js and summary-20210101-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 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 3 | 5 | +2 | 1 | -2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 3 | -1 | 5 | +1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 4 | -1 | 3 | -2 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 6 | 0 | 8 | +2 |
| 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 | 7 | -1 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 10 | 11 | +1 | 11 | +1 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 11 | 10 | -1 | 15 | +4 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 12 | 16 | +4 | 16 | +4 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 13 | 15 | +2 | 12 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 14 | 12 | -2 | 13 | -1 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 13 | -2 | 17 | +2 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 16 | 14 | -2 | 10 | -6 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 17 | 19 | +2 | 33 | +16 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 18 | 17 | -1 | 14 | -4 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 19 | 18 | -1 | 18 | -1 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 20 | 21 | +1 | 19 | -1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WebRTC | Technology | Network | network, realtime, frontend, web | 7 | 103 | 0 | 497 | +394 |
| dbt | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, analytics, sql, transformation | 6 | 108 | 0 | 310 | +202 |
| WebAssembly | Technology | Frontend | webassembly, frontend, systems, web | 6 | 115 | 1 | 243 | +128 |
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 5 | 129 | 1 | 244 | +115 |
| PyTorch | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 9 | 88 | 2 | 180 | +92 |
| Next.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 16 | 54 | 3 | 141 | +87 |
| Haskell | Technology | Language | language, functional, backend, pure | 9 | 87 | 2 | 169 | +82 |
| NextJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 7 | 100 | 2 | 178 | +78 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 118 | 1 | 193 | +75 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 11 | 84 | 3 | 147 | +63 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 7 | 99 | 13 | 67 | -32 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 13 | 74 | 21 | 45 | -29 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 6 | 105 | 10 | 76 | -29 |
| BigQuery | Technology | Database | database, analytics, cloud, storage | 5 | 116 | 7 | 90 | -26 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 14 | 71 | 21 | 46 | -25 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 14 | 63 | 21 | 43 | -20 |
| Redux | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, state-management, react | 20 | 51 | 34 | 34 | -17 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 24 | 46 | 35 | 30 | -16 |
| Elixir | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, erlang-vm | 14 | 65 | 19 | 49 | -16 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 9 | 91 | 11 | 75 | -16 |
Target month: January 2021
Target postings: 703
Threads analyzed: 117