Generated locally from 18 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 October 2012 and analyzed 247 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 212 to 247 (16.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 195 to 247 (26.7%).
Top term this month: JavaScript at rank 1 with 54 mentions (21.86% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Cassandra (+133 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Security (-23 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-20121001-go.js and summary-20121001-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 1 | 4 | +3 | 3 | +2 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 2 | 3 | +1 | 5 | +3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 3 | 2 | -1 | 1 | -2 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 4 | 8 | +4 | 8 | +4 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 | +2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 6 | 7 | +1 | 4 | -2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 7 | 1 | -6 | 6 | -1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 6 | -2 | 9 | +1 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 9 | 13 | +4 | 10 | +1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 10 | 9 | -1 | 2 | -8 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 11 | 16 | +5 | 21 | +10 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 12 | 19 | +7 | 56 | +44 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 13 | 17 | +4 | 15 | +2 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 14 | 14 | 0 | 31 | +17 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 32 | +17 | 12 | -3 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 16 | 11 | -5 | 20 | +4 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 17 | 22 | +5 | 22 | +5 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 18 | 18 | 0 | 17 | -1 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 19 | 21 | +2 | 11 | -8 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 20 | 12 | -8 | 18 | -2 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 10 | 41 | 0 | 174 | +133 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 25 | 12 | 3 | 56 | +44 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 62 | 1 | 103 | +41 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 5 | 59 | 1 | 88 | +29 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 8 | 47 | 2 | 67 | +20 |
| Perl | Technology | Language | language, backend, scripting, legacy | 11 | 39 | 3 | 58 | +19 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 15 | 30 | 4 | 48 | +18 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 22 | 14 | 7 | 31 | +17 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 7 | 52 | 2 | 69 | +17 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 19 | 22 | 6 | 36 | +14 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 6 | 57 | 7 | 34 | -23 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 15 | 33 | 14 | 13 | -20 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 8 | 48 | 8 | 28 | -20 |
| memcached | Technology | Database | cache, database, backend, storage | 5 | 60 | 5 | 43 | -17 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 13 | 38 | 12 | 23 | -15 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 18 | 26 | 14 | 14 | -12 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 56 | 5 | 45 | -11 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 13 | 35 | 9 | 26 | -9 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 31 | 10 | 31 | 2 | -8 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 20 | 19 | 19 | 11 | -8 |
Target month: October 2012
Target postings: 247
Threads analyzed: 18