Generated locally from 20 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 December 2012 and analyzed 229 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 219 to 229 (4.6%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 1 to 229 (22800.0%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 53 mentions (23.14% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Senior (+394 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: .NET (-29 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-20121201-go.js and summary-20121201-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 1 | 1 | 0 | 181 | +180 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 2 | 3 | +1 | 370 | +368 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 3 | 4 | +1 | 235 | +232 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 2 | -2 | 51 | +47 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 5 | 7 | +2 | 377 | +372 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 6 | 5 | -1 | 394 | +388 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 7 | 8 | +1 | 231 | +224 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 9 | +1 | 388 | +380 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 9 | 6 | -3 | 182 | +173 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 10 | 35 | +25 | 299 | +289 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 11 | 19 | +8 | 313 | +302 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 12 | 10 | -2 | 192 | +180 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 13 | 28 | +15 | 357 | +344 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 14 | 30 | +16 | 383 | +369 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 15 | 23 | +8 | 409 | +394 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 16 | 25 | +9 | 109 | +93 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 11 | -6 | 234 | +217 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 18 | 15 | -3 | 53 | +35 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 19 | 18 | -1 | 239 | +220 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 20 | 12 | -8 | 352 | +332 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 22 | 15 | 0 | 409 | +394 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 34 | 6 | 0 | 394 | +388 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 33 | 8 | 0 | 388 | +380 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 34 | 5 | 0 | 377 | +372 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 22 | 14 | 0 | 383 | +369 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 49 | 2 | 0 | 370 | +368 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 5 | 60 | 0 | 427 | +367 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 11 | 37 | 0 | 400 | +363 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 8 | 47 | 0 | 407 | +360 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 8 | 46 | 0 | 391 | +345 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 13 | 30 | 0 | 1 | -29 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 10 | 38 | 0 | 9 | -29 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 8 | 42 | 0 | 25 | -17 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 14 | 27 | 0 | 15 | -12 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 12 | 32 | 0 | 45 | +13 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 8 | 43 | 0 | 65 | +22 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 7 | 48 | 0 | 71 | +23 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 52 | 0 | 75 | +23 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 5 | 53 | 0 | 79 | +26 |
| C# | Technology | Language | language, backend, microsoft, dotnet | 11 | 34 | 0 | 68 | +34 |
Target month: December 2012
Target postings: 229
Threads analyzed: 20