Generated locally from 26 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 June 2013 and analyzed 261 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 318 to 261 (-17.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 226 to 261 (15.5%).
Top term this month: JavaScript at rank 1 with 73 mentions (27.97% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Heroku (+243 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: nginx (-32 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-20130601-go.js and summary-20130601-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +5 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | +3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | -2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 10 | +6 | 10 | +6 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 5 | 7 | +2 | 18 | +13 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 | -4 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 7 | 4 | -3 | 4 | -3 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 8 | 5 | -3 | 3 | -5 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 9 | 11 | +2 | 13 | +4 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 10 | 8 | -2 | 27 | +17 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 11 | 9 | -2 | 7 | -4 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 12 | 15 | +3 | 30 | +18 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 13 | 13 | 0 | 12 | -1 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 14 | 17 | +3 | 15 | +1 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 15 | 16 | +1 | 14 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 16 | 21 | +5 | 9 | -7 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 17 | 28 | +11 | 19 | +2 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 18 | 20 | +2 | 20 | +2 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 19 | 26 | +7 | 48 | +29 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 20 | 14 | -6 | 11 | -9 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 5 | 70 | 0 | 313 | +243 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 7 | 58 | 0 | 259 | +201 |
| ASP | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, web | 5 | 65 | 0 | 190 | +125 |
| ASP.NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, dotnet | 5 | 66 | 0 | 191 | +125 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 6 | 63 | 1 | 159 | +96 |
| Storm | Technology | Processing | stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering, data | 6 | 64 | 1 | 160 | +96 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 18 | 26 | 1 | 115 | +89 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 9 | 53 | 1 | 123 | +70 |
| Erlang | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, concurrent | 6 | 62 | 1 | 129 | +67 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 10 | 49 | 1 | 114 | +65 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 5 | 71 | 9 | 39 | -32 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 11 | 47 | 20 | 16 | -31 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 5 | 72 | 9 | 41 | -31 |
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 8 | 56 | 9 | 38 | -18 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 19 | 24 | 25 | 8 | -16 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 11 | 48 | 11 | 32 | -16 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 16 | 33 | 18 | 21 | -12 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 16 | 32 | 17 | 22 | -10 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 10 | 52 | 9 | 42 | -10 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 22 | 20 | 24 | 11 | -9 |
Target month: June 2013
Target postings: 261
Threads analyzed: 26