Generated locally from 27 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 July 2013 and analyzed 288 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 261 to 288 (10.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 189 to 288 (52.4%).
Top term this month: JavaScript at rank 1 with 71 mentions (24.65% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: D3.js (+152 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Scala (-25 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-20130701-go.js and summary-20130701-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | +1 |
| 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 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 7 | +3 | 5 | +1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 11 | +6 | 15 | +10 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 6 | 6 | 0 | 4 | -2 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 7 | 8 | +1 | 6 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 8 | 4 | -4 | 21 | +13 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 9 | 10 | +1 | 13 | +4 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 10 | 9 | -1 | 8 | -2 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 11 | 12 | +1 | 7 | -4 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 12 | 5 | -7 | 9 | -3 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 13 | 21 | +8 | 31 | +18 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 14 | 28 | +14 | 35 | +21 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 15 | 13 | -2 | 19 | +4 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 16 | 20 | +4 | 14 | -2 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 17 | 15 | -2 | 11 | -6 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 18 | 24 | +6 | 16 | -2 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 19 | 17 | -2 | 18 | -1 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 20 | 25 | +5 | 12 | -8 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 7 | 57 | 0 | 209 | +152 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 16 | 32 | 0 | 143 | +111 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 46 | 0 | 141 | +95 |
| WordPress | Technology | Backend | backend, cms, php, web | 5 | 67 | 1 | 131 | +64 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 8 | 54 | 2 | 88 | +34 |
| Solr | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, apache | 6 | 62 | 2 | 96 | +34 |
| LAMP | Technology | Backend | backend, stack, php, linux | 7 | 58 | 2 | 91 | +33 |
| Data Science | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data, ml, analytics, statistics | 6 | 60 | 2 | 84 | +24 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 29 | 14 | 9 | 35 | +21 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 30 | 13 | 11 | 31 | +18 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 6 | 61 | 8 | 36 | -25 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 11 | 42 | 13 | 23 | -19 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 7 | 56 | 7 | 39 | -17 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 21 | 23 | 21 | 10 | -13 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 16 | 36 | 13 | 25 | -11 |
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 8 | 52 | 6 | 41 | -11 |
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 5 | 64 | 4 | 55 | -9 |
| memcached | Technology | Database | cache, database, backend, storage | 5 | 65 | 4 | 56 | -9 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 24 | 20 | 19 | 12 | -8 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 20 | 25 | 16 | 17 | -8 |
Target month: July 2013
Target postings: 288
Threads analyzed: 27