Generated locally from 14 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 June 2012 and analyzed 226 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 230 to 226 (-1.7%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 216 to 226 (4.6%).
Top term this month: Python at rank 1 with 55 mentions (24.34% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: R (+352 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Cloud (-39 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-20120601-go.js and summary-20120601-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | +2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 2 | 5 | +3 | 5 | +3 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 3 | 7 | +4 | 8 | +5 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 3 | -1 | 6 | +2 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 5 | 2 | -3 | 1 | -4 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 6 | 4 | -2 | 4 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 6 | -1 | 2 | -5 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 8 | 17 | +9 | 19 | +11 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 9 | 16 | +7 | 58 | +49 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 10 | 25 | +15 | 26 | +16 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 11 | 9 | -2 | 9 | -2 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 12 | 18 | +6 | 22 | +10 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 13 | 11 | -2 | 7 | -6 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 14 | 26 | +12 | 48 | +34 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 15 | 12 | -3 | 10 | -5 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 16 | 24 | +8 | 35 | +19 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 17 | 13 | -4 | 11 | -6 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 18 | 8 | -10 | 14 | -4 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 19 | 21 | +2 | 13 | -6 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 20 | 27 | +7 | 20 | 0 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | Technology | Language | language, data, statistics, ml | 7 | 56 | 0 | 408 | +352 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 7 | 55 | 0 | 403 | +348 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 18 | 21 | 2 | 75 | +54 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 25 | 9 | 3 | 58 | +49 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 8 | 50 | 1 | 98 | +48 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 9 | 45 | 2 | 81 | +36 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 9 | 41 | 2 | 76 | +35 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 21 | 14 | 4 | 48 | +34 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 17 | 22 | 3 | 56 | +34 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 9 | 39 | 3 | 60 | +21 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 6 | 57 | 12 | 18 | -39 |
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 6 | 58 | 9 | 25 | -33 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 8 | 46 | 12 | 16 | -30 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 60 | 7 | 31 | -29 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 59 | 6 | 36 | -23 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 9 | 42 | 11 | 21 | -21 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 8 | 48 | 7 | 29 | -19 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 15 | 27 | 16 | 12 | -15 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 10 | 36 | 10 | 23 | -13 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 9 | 44 | 7 | 32 | -12 |
Target month: June 2012
Target postings: 226
Threads analyzed: 14