Generated locally from 169 historical hiring threads with the expanded Go dictionary.
Generated on Sunday, June 21, 2026 from the target Hacker News thread.
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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 2025 and analyzed 303 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 310 to 303 (-2.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 398 to 303 (-23.9%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 169 mentions (55.78% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Spark (+151 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: C (-36 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-20250501-go.js and summary-20250501-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
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| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | +2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 4 | +1 | 2 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 3 | -1 | 3 | -1 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 6 | +1 | 5 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 6 | 5 | -1 | 6 | 0 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 7 | 11 | +4 | 9 | +2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 7 | -1 | 7 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 9 | 9 | 0 | 8 | -1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 10 | 8 | -2 | 10 | 0 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 11 | 10 | -1 | 11 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 13 | 14 | +1 | 13 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 14 | 15 | +1 | 14 | 0 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 13 | -2 | 17 | +2 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 16 | 18 | +2 | 16 | 0 |
| Rust | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 17 | 20 | +3 | 23 | +6 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 18 | 16 | -2 | 15 | -3 |
| Large Language Model | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, generative-ai, nlp | 19 | 17 | -2 | 18 | -1 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 20 | 23 | +3 | 19 | -1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 6 | 63 | 1 | 214 | +151 |
| DataDog | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, cloud | 5 | 69 | 1 | 166 | +97 |
| FastAPI | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, api | 12 | 36 | 2 | 124 | +88 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 8 | 54 | 2 | 138 | +84 |
| web3 | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 5 | 76 | 2 | 146 | +70 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 5 | 74 | 2 | 139 | +65 |
| AI Agents | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, agents, llm, automation | 15 | 30 | 3 | 92 | +62 |
| Figma | Technology | Tooling | design, tooling, frontend, ui | 5 | 71 | 2 | 126 | +55 |
| PyTorch | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 8 | 53 | 3 | 106 | +53 |
| Observability | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, devops | 10 | 40 | 4 | 86 | +46 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 5 | 67 | 15 | 31 | -36 |
| Fintech | Domain | Industry | industry, finance, domain, technology | 5 | 72 | 10 | 44 | -28 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 5 | 75 | 10 | 48 | -27 |
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 5 | 66 | 10 | 43 | -23 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 9 | 45 | 16 | 30 | -15 |
| SRE | Work Attribute | Work Area | sre, observability, infrastructure, work-area | 9 | 47 | 15 | 33 | -14 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 61 | 10 | 47 | -14 |
| Generative AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, generative-ai, generative | 8 | 51 | 12 | 38 | -13 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 9 | 44 | 15 | 32 | -12 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 14 | 32 | 23 | 21 | -11 |
Target month: May 2025
Target postings: 303
Threads analyzed: 169