Generated locally from 181 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 2026 and analyzed 335 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 342 to 335 (-2.0%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 303 to 335 (10.6%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 186 mentions (55.52% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: MCP (+324 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: passion (-51 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-20260501-go.js and summary-20260501-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 | 2 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 6 | +2 | 4 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 5 | 7 | +2 | 9 | +4 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 4 | -2 | 5 | -1 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 7 | 10 | +3 | 11 | +4 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 8 | 5 | -3 | 6 | -2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 8 | -1 | 8 | -1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 10 | 11 | +1 | 15 | +5 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 11 | 9 | -2 | 7 | -4 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 13 | +1 | 12 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 13 | 12 | -1 | 14 | +1 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 14 | 15 | +1 | 16 | +2 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 15 | 16 | +1 | 18 | +3 |
| Large Language Model | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, generative-ai, nlp | 16 | 14 | -2 | 19 | +3 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 17 | 17 | 0 | 13 | -4 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 18 | 18 | 0 | 10 | -8 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 19 | 19 | 0 | 20 | +1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 20 | 23 | +3 | 21 | +1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, protocol, tooling | 7 | 66 | 0 | 390 | +324 |
| HPC | Technology | Processing | processing, distributed, performance, infrastructure | 5 | 82 | 0 | 347 | +265 |
| Claude Code | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, developer-tooling, coding | 12 | 37 | 0 | 268 | +231 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 6 | 77 | 1 | 208 | +131 |
| Platform Engineering | Technology | Platform Engineering | platform-engineering, infrastructure, developer-platform, devops | 6 | 76 | 1 | 201 | +125 |
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 6 | 75 | 1 | 191 | +116 |
| Flutter | Technology | Mobile | mobile, frontend, dart, cross-platform | 6 | 73 | 1 | 181 | +108 |
| Cursor | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, developer-tooling, ide | 8 | 58 | 1 | 164 | +106 |
| Elixir | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, erlang-vm | 6 | 71 | 1 | 173 | +102 |
| Claude | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, tooling, anthropic | 17 | 31 | 2 | 117 | +86 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 5 | 86 | 13 | 35 | -51 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 5 | 80 | 13 | 33 | -47 |
| FastAPI | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, api | 6 | 72 | 12 | 36 | -36 |
| OpenAI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, platform, company | 5 | 85 | 8 | 52 | -33 |
| FIX | Technology | Data Encoding | data-encoding, protocol, financial-services, messaging | 5 | 81 | 8 | 50 | -31 |
| GraphQL | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, query-language | 7 | 64 | 11 | 38 | -26 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 5 | 79 | 6 | 59 | -20 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 74 | 7 | 56 | -18 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 5 | 87 | 5 | 75 | -12 |
| Generative AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, generative-ai, generative | 7 | 62 | 8 | 51 | -11 |
Target month: May 2026
Target postings: 335
Threads analyzed: 181