Generated locally from 161 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 |
|---|
Geography
| Location | Weighted | Mentions | Companies | Top City | Work Mode Mix |
|---|
This page was generated by the Go pipeline for September 2024 and analyzed 304 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 326 to 304 (-6.7%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 296 to 304 (2.7%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 174 mentions (57.24% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Spark (+381 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: SQL (-46 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-20240901-go.js and summary-20240901-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 | 1 | 0 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 2 | 4 | +2 | 3 | +1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 2 | -1 | 2 | -1 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 4 | 3 | -1 | 8 | +4 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 5 | 9 | +4 | 5 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 6 | 5 | -1 | 6 | 0 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 6 | -1 | 4 | -3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 8 | 11 | +3 | 11 | +3 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 8 | -1 | 7 | -2 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 10 | 10 | 0 | 9 | -1 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 11 | 7 | -4 | 15 | +4 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 12 | 0 | 10 | -2 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 13 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 14 | 14 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 18 | +3 | 12 | -3 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 16 | 17 | +1 | 17 | +1 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 17 | 15 | -2 | 19 | +2 |
| Large Language Model | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, generative-ai, nlp | 18 | 19 | +1 | 35 | +17 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 19 | 20 | +1 | 16 | -3 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 20 | 21 | +1 | 23 | +3 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 5 | 75 | 0 | 456 | +381 |
| RAG | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, rag, search | 5 | 71 | 0 | 429 | +358 |
| Phoenix | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, elixir, web | 5 | 70 | 0 | 416 | +346 |
| Airflow | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, orchestration, pipeline, workflow | 7 | 47 | 0 | 229 | +182 |
| AI Agents | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, agents, llm, automation | 7 | 46 | 1 | 133 | +87 |
| Databricks | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, processing, ml, distributed | 5 | 66 | 1 | 153 | +87 |
| Serverless | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, architecture | 7 | 56 | 2 | 126 | +70 |
| Kafka | Technology | Data Engineering | streaming, messaging, distributed, backend | 7 | 54 | 2 | 115 | +61 |
| Snowflake | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, analytics | 5 | 74 | 2 | 127 | +53 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 6 | 60 | 2 | 105 | +45 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 5 | 76 | 13 | 30 | -46 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 5 | 68 | 12 | 32 | -36 |
| SRE | Work Attribute | Work Area | sre, observability, infrastructure, work-area | 7 | 57 | 14 | 29 | -28 |
| GCP | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, google, infrastructure | 7 | 50 | 11 | 34 | -16 |
| Data Science | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data, ml, analytics, statistics | 8 | 42 | 14 | 27 | -15 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 6 | 58 | 8 | 47 | -11 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 6 | 65 | 7 | 57 | -8 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 10 | 34 | 14 | 28 | -6 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 15 | 29 | 16 | 24 | -5 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 14 | 30 | 15 | 25 | -5 |
Target month: September 2024
Target postings: 304
Threads analyzed: 161