Generated locally from 16 historical hiring threads with the expanded Go dictionary.
Generated on Monday, April 27, 2026 from the target Hacker News thread.
Selected terms
Category, family, tags, and latest month metrics.
| Term | Kind | Family | Tags | Latest count | Latest % | Latest rank | Total mentions |
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This page was generated by the Go pipeline for August 2012 and analyzed 244 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 189 to 244 (29.1%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 229 to 244 (6.6%).
Top term this month: JavaScript at rank 1 with 55 mentions (22.54% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Ember (+184 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Perl (-33 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-20120801-go.js and summary-20120801-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 1 | 2 | +1 | 2 | +1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 2 | 4 | +2 | 1 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | +1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 4 | 1 | -3 | 5 | +1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 5 | 6 | +1 | 6 | +1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 6 | 5 | -1 | 3 | -3 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 7 | 9 | +2 | 9 | +2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 15 | +7 | 7 | -1 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 9 | 13 | +4 | 12 | +3 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 10 | 11 | +1 | 21 | +11 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 11 | 21 | +10 | 62 | +51 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 12 | 8 | -4 | 11 | -1 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 13 | 19 | +6 | 17 | +4 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 14 | 31 | +17 | 27 | +13 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 15 | 14 | -1 | 8 | -7 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 16 | 35 | +19 | 16 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 17 | 20 | +3 | 35 | +18 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 18 | 18 | 0 | 22 | +4 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 19 | 25 | +6 | 37 | +18 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 20 | 10 | -10 | 10 | -10 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 57 | 0 | 241 | +184 |
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 6 | 52 | 1 | 104 | +52 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 26 | 11 | 3 | 62 | +51 |
| Computer Vision | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, computer-vision, vision | 5 | 56 | 1 | 93 | +37 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 12 | 37 | 2 | 73 | +36 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 12 | 38 | 3 | 65 | +27 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 6 | 50 | 2 | 75 | +25 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 7 | 46 | 3 | 67 | +21 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 22 | 17 | 7 | 35 | +18 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 22 | 19 | 7 | 37 | +18 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perl | Technology | Language | language, backend, scripting, legacy | 5 | 61 | 10 | 28 | -33 |
| Solr | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, apache | 5 | 62 | 8 | 32 | -30 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 10 | 43 | 11 | 24 | -19 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 31 | 21 | 13 | -18 |
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 6 | 51 | 7 | 34 | -17 |
| LAMP | Technology | Backend | backend, stack, php, linux | 5 | 59 | 6 | 42 | -17 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 15 | 29 | 20 | 14 | -15 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 13 | 34 | 12 | 23 | -11 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 21 | 20 | 26 | 10 | -10 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 11 | 40 | 9 | 30 | -10 |
Target month: August 2012
Target postings: 244
Threads analyzed: 16