Generated locally from 13 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 May 2012 and analyzed 230 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 201 to 230 (14.4%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 218 to 230 (5.5%).
Top term this month: Python at rank 1 with 49 mentions (21.30% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: statistics (+74 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: C# (-28 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-20120501-go.js and summary-20120501-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 1 | 5 | +4 | 5 | +4 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | +3 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 4 | 1 | -3 | 3 | -1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 5 | 7 | +2 | 1 | -4 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 4 | -2 | 7 | +1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 7 | 6 | -1 | 4 | -3 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 8 | 8 | 0 | 11 | +3 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 9 | 13 | +4 | 9 | 0 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 10 | 11 | +1 | 10 | 0 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 11 | 9 | -2 | 8 | -3 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 12 | 10 | -2 | 16 | +4 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 13 | 30 | +17 | 19 | +6 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 14 | 26 | +12 | 43 | +29 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 18 | +3 | 12 | -3 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 16 | 23 | +7 | 33 | +17 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 17 | 20 | +3 | 32 | +15 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 18 | 12 | -6 | 14 | -4 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 19 | 43 | +24 | 29 | +10 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 20 | 16 | -4 | 15 | -5 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 6 | 52 | 1 | 126 | +74 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 8 | 44 | 1 | 116 | +72 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 12 | 30 | 1 | 91 | +61 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 6 | 49 | 1 | 109 | +60 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 51 | 2 | 84 | +33 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 22 | 14 | 5 | 43 | +29 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 6 | 50 | 2 | 79 | +29 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 14 | 25 | 4 | 48 | +23 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 9 | 39 | 3 | 62 | +23 |
| memcached | Technology | Database | cache, database, backend, storage | 5 | 54 | 2 | 76 | +22 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C# | Technology | Language | language, backend, microsoft, dotnet | 7 | 46 | 10 | 18 | -28 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 7 | 48 | 10 | 21 | -27 |
| Perl | Technology | Language | language, backend, scripting, legacy | 7 | 47 | 9 | 23 | -24 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 9 | 36 | 8 | 25 | -11 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 9 | 37 | 8 | 26 | -11 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 16 | 21 | 16 | 13 | -8 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 27 | 10 | 20 | -7 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 53 | 4 | 46 | -7 |
| Processing | Technology | Language | language, creative-coding, graphics, java | 9 | 40 | 7 | 34 | -6 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 17 | 20 | 14 | 15 | -5 |
Target month: May 2012
Target postings: 230
Threads analyzed: 13