Generated locally from 32 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 December 2013 and analyzed 262 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 296 to 262 (-11.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 229 to 262 (14.4%).
Top term this month: Back End at rank 1 with 59 mentions (22.52% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Staff (+389 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: C# (-27 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-20131201-go.js and summary-20131201-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 | 3 | +2 | 4 | +3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 4 | +1 | 2 | -1 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 4 | 10 | +6 | 7 | +3 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 5 | 1 | -4 | 3 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 7 | +1 | 8 | +2 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 7 | 12 | +5 | 27 | +20 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 8 | 5 | -3 | 9 | +1 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 15 | +6 | 108 | +99 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 10 | 8 | -2 | 5 | -5 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 11 | 11 | 0 | 15 | +4 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 12 | 9 | -3 | 6 | -6 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 13 | 14 | +1 | 18 | +5 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 14 | 6 | -8 | 17 | +3 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 15 | 17 | +2 | 31 | +16 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 16 | 13 | -3 | 22 | +6 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 17 | 22 | +5 | 13 | -4 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 18 | 28 | +10 | 10 | -8 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 19 | 16 | -3 | 12 | -7 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 20 | 37 | +17 | 32 | +12 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 66 | 0 | 455 | +389 |
| Data Science | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data, ml, analytics, statistics | 8 | 52 | 0 | 235 | +183 |
| Computer Vision | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, computer-vision, vision | 5 | 62 | 0 | 224 | +162 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 12 | 38 | 0 | 163 | +125 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 34 | 9 | 1 | 108 | +99 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 64 | 1 | 113 | +49 |
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 5 | 67 | 2 | 102 | +35 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 9 | 50 | 2 | 83 | +33 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 42 | 7 | 14 | 27 | +20 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 18 | 23 | 8 | 42 | +19 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C# | Technology | Language | language, backend, microsoft, dotnet | 5 | 61 | 11 | 34 | -27 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 12 | 40 | 22 | 14 | -26 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 59 | 9 | 41 | -18 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 13 | 33 | 21 | 16 | -17 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 14 | 32 | 19 | 20 | -12 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 14 | 30 | 19 | 19 | -11 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 13 | 35 | 16 | 24 | -11 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 13 | 36 | 15 | 25 | -11 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 9 | 49 | 10 | 38 | -11 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 22 | 21 | 24 | 11 | -10 |
Target month: December 2013
Target postings: 262
Threads analyzed: 32