Generated locally from 23 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 March 2013 and analyzed 289 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 217 to 289 (33.2%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 248 to 289 (16.5%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 77 mentions (26.64% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: JSON (+249 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Git (-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-20130301-go.js and summary-20130301-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 | 1 | 0 | 6 | +5 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | +1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 | +4 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 4 | 8 | +4 | 1 | -3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 5 | 4 | -1 | 2 | -3 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 7 | +1 | 4 | -2 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 7 | 9 | +2 | 9 | +2 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 8 | 5 | -3 | 8 | 0 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 9 | 10 | +1 | 5 | -4 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 10 | 20 | +10 | 16 | +6 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 11 | 6 | -5 | 10 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 12 | 14 | +2 | 48 | +36 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 13 | 12 | -1 | 19 | +6 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 14 | 23 | +9 | 26 | +12 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 15 | 13 | -2 | 49 | +34 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 16 | 16 | 0 | 29 | +13 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 17 | 11 | -6 | 25 | +8 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 18 | 22 | +4 | 12 | -6 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 19 | 26 | +7 | 13 | -6 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 20 | 15 | -5 | 14 | -6 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JSON | Technology | Backend | data-format, api, backend, data | 5 | 66 | 0 | 315 | +249 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 6 | 59 | 0 | 243 | +184 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 58 | 0 | 156 | +98 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 63 | 0 | 154 | +91 |
| TDD | Process | Methodology | testing, process, agile, methodology | 8 | 52 | 1 | 136 | +84 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 62 | 1 | 133 | +71 |
| Distributed Systems | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, backend, infrastructure, architecture | 5 | 65 | 1 | 110 | +45 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 5 | 64 | 1 | 105 | +41 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 32 | 12 | 8 | 48 | +36 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 26 | 15 | 8 | 49 | +34 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 10 | 42 | 20 | 15 | -27 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 11 | 39 | 18 | 17 | -22 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 8 | 51 | 11 | 37 | -14 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 8 | 53 | 11 | 39 | -14 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 15 | 31 | 18 | 18 | -13 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 13 | 37 | 16 | 24 | -13 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 8 | 49 | 11 | 36 | -13 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 21 | 22 | 26 | 11 | -11 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 12 | 38 | 13 | 30 | -8 |
| memcached | Technology | Database | cache, database, backend, storage | 5 | 67 | 4 | 59 | -8 |
Target month: March 2013
Target postings: 289
Threads analyzed: 23