Generated locally from 22 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 February 2013 and analyzed 217 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 191 to 217 (13.6%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 201 to 217 (8.0%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 47 mentions (21.66% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: RabbitMQ (+357 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Objective-C (-29 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-20130201-go.js and summary-20130201-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 1 | 3 | +2 | 3 | +2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 2 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 4 | +1 | 6 | +3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 4 | 2 | -2 | 4 | 0 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 5 | 7 | +2 | 9 | +4 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 6 | 8 | +2 | 1 | -5 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 9 | +2 | 7 | 0 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 8 | 6 | -2 | 8 | 0 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 9 | 17 | +8 | 11 | +2 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 10 | 5 | -5 | 5 | -5 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 11 | 20 | +9 | 38 | +27 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 12 | 14 | +2 | 20 | +8 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 13 | 35 | +22 | 32 | +19 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 14 | 15 | +1 | 44 | +30 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 15 | 29 | +14 | 15 | 0 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 16 | 18 | +2 | 22 | +6 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 17 | 11 | -6 | 18 | +1 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 18 | 10 | -8 | 10 | -8 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 19 | 33 | +14 | 49 | +30 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 20 | 12 | -8 | 13 | -7 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RabbitMQ | Technology | Backend | messaging, backend, distributed, queue | 6 | 54 | 0 | 411 | +357 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 6 | 51 | 0 | 238 | +187 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 10 | 42 | 1 | 124 | +82 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 59 | 1 | 102 | +43 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 5 | 58 | 1 | 99 | +41 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 11 | 35 | 3 | 66 | +31 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 21 | 14 | 7 | 44 | +30 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 15 | 19 | 5 | 49 | +30 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 6 | 49 | 2 | 78 | +29 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 25 | 11 | 9 | 38 | +27 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 6 | 53 | 12 | 24 | -29 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 6 | 50 | 11 | 28 | -22 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 5 | 57 | 9 | 35 | -22 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 5 | 64 | 8 | 43 | -21 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 12 | 32 | 16 | 16 | -16 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 10 | 41 | 12 | 25 | -16 |
| memcached | Technology | Database | cache, database, backend, storage | 5 | 61 | 7 | 45 | -16 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 11 | 36 | 14 | 21 | -15 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 39 | 11 | 26 | -13 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 8 | 43 | 10 | 30 | -13 |
Target month: February 2013
Target postings: 217
Threads analyzed: 22