Generated locally from 17 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 September 2012 and analyzed 212 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 244 to 212 (-13.1%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 190 to 212 (11.6%).
Top term this month: Back End at rank 1 with 48 mentions (22.64% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: MapReduce (+292 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: MySQL (-21 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-20120901-go.js and summary-20120901-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 1 | 6 | +5 | 5 | +4 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 4 | +2 | 2 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | -2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 4 | 1 | -3 | 3 | -1 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 5 | 7 | +2 | 16 | +11 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 8 | +2 | 8 | +2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 7 | 2 | -5 | 6 | -1 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 8 | 12 | +4 | 7 | -1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 9 | 5 | -4 | 4 | -5 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 10 | 16 | +6 | 14 | +4 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 11 | 24 | +13 | 27 | +16 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 12 | 32 | +20 | 29 | +17 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 13 | 9 | -4 | 15 | +2 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 14 | 30 | +16 | 23 | +9 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 15 | 17 | +2 | 31 | +16 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 16 | 10 | -6 | 24 | +8 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 17 | 15 | -2 | 10 | -7 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 18 | 28 | +10 | 26 | +8 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 19 | 11 | -8 | 74 | +55 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 20 | 23 | +3 | 44 | +24 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MapReduce | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, distributed, data-engineering, data | 5 | 54 | 0 | 346 | +292 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 16 | 19 | 2 | 74 | +55 |
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 7 | 44 | 1 | 97 | +53 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 12 | 28 | 2 | 75 | +47 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 42 | 2 | 79 | +37 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 6 | 51 | 2 | 78 | +27 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 14 | 20 | 5 | 44 | +24 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 20 | 12 | 9 | 29 | +17 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 20 | 11 | 10 | 27 | +16 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 19 | 15 | 9 | 31 | +16 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 32 | 19 | 11 | -21 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 9 | 40 | 12 | 21 | -19 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 5 | 55 | 8 | 37 | -18 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 11 | 33 | 13 | 18 | -15 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 7 | 45 | 9 | 30 | -15 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 14 | 22 | 22 | 9 | -13 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 12 | 26 | 16 | 13 | -13 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 9 | 38 | 11 | 25 | -13 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 13 | 24 | 18 | 12 | -12 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 12 | 29 | 13 | 17 | -12 |
Target month: September 2012
Target postings: 212
Threads analyzed: 17