Generated locally from 25 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 May 2013 and analyzed 318 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 343 to 318 (-7.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 230 to 318 (38.3%).
Top term this month: JavaScript at rank 1 with 83 mentions (26.10% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: D3.js (+158 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Staff (-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-20130501-go.js and summary-20130501-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | +3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 4 | +1 | 1 | -2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 3 | -1 | 3 | -1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 5 | 8 | +3 | 7 | +2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 6 | 7 | +1 | 5 | -1 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 7 | 10 | +3 | 8 | +1 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 8 | 9 | +1 | 10 | +2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 9 | 6 | -3 | 6 | -3 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 10 | 11 | +1 | 25 | +15 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 11 | 5 | -6 | 11 | 0 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 12 | 23 | +11 | 14 | +2 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 13 | 12 | -1 | 18 | +5 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 14 | 15 | +1 | 9 | -5 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 15 | 31 | +16 | 30 | +15 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 16 | 32 | +16 | 26 | +10 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 17 | 17 | 0 | 12 | -5 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 18 | 26 | +8 | 17 | -1 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 19 | 21 | +2 | 15 | -4 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 20 | 18 | -2 | 27 | +7 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 8 | 58 | 0 | 216 | +158 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 13 | 42 | 0 | 151 | +109 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 52 | 0 | 149 | +97 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 6 | 72 | 1 | 127 | +55 |
| Riak | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 6 | 71 | 1 | 122 | +51 |
| JSON | Technology | Backend | data-format, api, backend, data | 7 | 66 | 1 | 114 | +48 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 8 | 56 | 1 | 101 | +45 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 7 | 64 | 1 | 105 | +41 |
| Erlang | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, concurrent | 7 | 65 | 1 | 106 | +41 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 11 | 47 | 2 | 87 | +40 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 80 | 6 | 51 | -29 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 12 | 44 | 18 | 19 | -25 |
| Perl | Technology | Language | language, backend, scripting, legacy | 6 | 69 | 7 | 47 | -22 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 8 | 60 | 9 | 39 | -21 |
| Data Mining | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data, ml, analytics, discovery | 5 | 76 | 4 | 56 | -20 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 15 | 40 | 15 | 23 | -17 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 10 | 49 | 12 | 32 | -17 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 8 | 61 | 8 | 44 | -17 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 18 | 36 | 17 | 20 | -16 |
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 8 | 59 | 8 | 43 | -16 |
Target month: May 2013
Target postings: 318
Threads analyzed: 25