Generated locally from 119 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 March 2021 and analyzed 903 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 939 to 903 (-3.8%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 644 to 903 (40.2%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 646 mentions (71.54% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Sass (+311 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Electron (-40 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-20210301-go.js and summary-20210301-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 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 5 | +2 | 3 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 3 | -2 | 7 | +2 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | -6 |
| 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 | 13 | +3 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 10 | -1 | 10 | -1 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 12 | 12 | 0 | 18 | +6 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 17 | +4 | 12 | -1 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 14 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 15 | 15 | 0 | 16 | +1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 16 | 13 | -3 | 11 | -5 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 17 | 18 | +1 | 15 | -2 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 18 | 20 | +2 | 25 | +7 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 19 | 19 | 0 | 22 | +3 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 20 | 22 | +2 | 27 | +7 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 5 | 141 | 0 | 452 | +311 |
| WordPress | Technology | Backend | backend, cms, php, web | 7 | 116 | 1 | 260 | +144 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 5 | 142 | 1 | 258 | +116 |
| Figma | Technology | Tooling | design, tooling, frontend, ui | 7 | 110 | 1 | 215 | +105 |
| Firebase | Technology | Cloud | cloud, backend, mobile, google | 7 | 111 | 1 | 216 | +105 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 120 | 1 | 198 | +78 |
| dbt | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, analytics, sql, transformation | 5 | 132 | 1 | 208 | +76 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 8 | 106 | 2 | 181 | +75 |
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 6 | 127 | 2 | 188 | +61 |
| Next.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 13 | 82 | 4 | 137 | +55 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electron | Technology | Frontend | frontend, desktop, javascript, cross-platform | 5 | 133 | 8 | 93 | -40 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 5 | 130 | 7 | 96 | -34 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 6 | 126 | 8 | 94 | -32 |
| .NET Core | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 7 | 107 | 11 | 76 | -31 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 7 | 114 | 10 | 85 | -29 |
| TensorFlow | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, google | 7 | 115 | 9 | 89 | -26 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 14 | 79 | 18 | 54 | -25 |
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 14 | 80 | 18 | 55 | -25 |
| Jenkins | Technology | Tooling | ci, devops, developer-tooling, ci-cd | 9 | 100 | 12 | 75 | -25 |
| Bash | Technology | Language | language, scripting, shell, systems | 5 | 129 | 6 | 104 | -25 |
Target month: March 2021
Target postings: 903
Threads analyzed: 119