Generated locally from 40 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 August 2014 and analyzed 477 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 418 to 477 (14.1%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 306 to 477 (55.9%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 132 mentions (27.67% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: JSP (+260 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Puppet (-36 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-20140801-go.js and summary-20140801-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 | 3 | +2 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 2 | 3 | +1 | 2 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 4 | +1 | 4 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 4 | 2 | -2 | 1 | -3 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 | +2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 7 | 8 | +1 | 15 | +8 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 8 | 10 | +2 | 13 | +5 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 9 | 7 | -2 | 11 | +2 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 10 | 13 | +3 | 23 | +13 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 11 | 12 | +1 | 5 | -6 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 12 | 11 | -1 | 12 | 0 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 14 | +1 | 14 | +1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 14 | 9 | -5 | 16 | +2 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 15 | 16 | +1 | 20 | +5 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 16 | 17 | +1 | 10 | -6 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 17 | 25 | +8 | 22 | +5 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 18 | 32 | +14 | 33 | +15 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 19 | 19 | 0 | 17 | -2 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 20 | 23 | +3 | 32 | +12 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JSP | Technology | Backend | backend, java, web, legacy | 7 | 86 | 0 | 346 | +260 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 10 | 74 | 1 | 179 | +105 |
| Sinatra | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 9 | 78 | 1 | 182 | +104 |
| Storm | Technology | Processing | stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering, data | 7 | 92 | 1 | 186 | +94 |
| Computer Vision | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, computer-vision, vision | 11 | 67 | 1 | 142 | +75 |
| Bitcoin | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 8 | 79 | 1 | 137 | +58 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 11 | 65 | 2 | 108 | +43 |
| XML | Technology | Backend | data-format, api, backend, data | 7 | 93 | 2 | 130 | +37 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 14 | 62 | 3 | 95 | +33 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 5 | 100 | 1 | 132 | +32 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 7 | 90 | 11 | 54 | -36 |
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 5 | 107 | 7 | 71 | -36 |
| Jenkins | Technology | Tooling | ci, devops, developer-tooling, ci-cd | 5 | 104 | 7 | 69 | -35 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 27 | 43 | 33 | 18 | -25 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 39 | 28 | 42 | 8 | -20 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 10 | 73 | 11 | 53 | -20 |
| Knockout | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 94 | 6 | 74 | -20 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 6 | 98 | 6 | 78 | -20 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 40 | 26 | 42 | 9 | -17 |
| Shell | Technology | Language | language, scripting, systems, cli | 5 | 106 | 4 | 89 | -17 |
Target month: August 2014
Target postings: 477
Threads analyzed: 40