Generated locally from 24 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 April 2013 and analyzed 343 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 289 to 343 (18.7%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 201 to 343 (70.6%).
Top term this month: JavaScript at rank 1 with 72 mentions (20.99% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: TDD (+373 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: EC2 (-42 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-20130401-go.js and summary-20130401-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 4 | 5 | +1 | 5 | +1 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 5 | 11 | +6 | 9 | +4 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | -2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 7 | 4 | -3 | 7 | 0 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 8 | 9 | +1 | 6 | -2 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 9 | 7 | -2 | 11 | +2 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 10 | 8 | -2 | 8 | -2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 11 | 12 | +1 | 34 | +23 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 12 | 10 | -2 | 12 | 0 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 13 | 29 | +16 | 30 | +17 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 14 | 28 | +14 | 51 | +37 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 15 | 22 | +7 | 13 | -2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 16 | 14 | -2 | 16 | 0 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 17 | 18 | +1 | 10 | -7 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 18 | 20 | +2 | 25 | +7 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 19 | 21 | +2 | 27 | +8 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 20 | 15 | -5 | 23 | +3 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TDD | Process | Methodology | testing, process, agile, methodology | 5 | 83 | 0 | 456 | +373 |
| Graphite | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, metrics | 5 | 80 | 0 | 280 | +200 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 10 | 52 | 0 | 177 | +125 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 11 | 50 | 0 | 139 | +89 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 66 | 0 | 137 | +71 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 5 | 73 | 0 | 141 | +68 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 7 | 65 | 1 | 117 | +52 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 9 | 57 | 1 | 107 | +50 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 6 | 72 | 1 | 115 | +43 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 31 | 14 | 4 | 51 | +37 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 5 | 78 | 8 | 36 | -42 |
| Data Mining | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data, ml, analytics, discovery | 5 | 77 | 3 | 54 | -23 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 16 | 40 | 14 | 19 | -21 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 21 | 32 | 16 | 14 | -18 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 9 | 60 | 6 | 42 | -18 |
| Solr | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, apache | 5 | 81 | 3 | 63 | -18 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 20 | 34 | 15 | 17 | -17 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 16 | 39 | 11 | 24 | -15 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 12 | 47 | 9 | 33 | -14 |
| LAMP | Technology | Backend | backend, stack, php, linux | 6 | 71 | 3 | 58 | -13 |
Target month: April 2013
Target postings: 343
Threads analyzed: 24