Generated locally from 44 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 December 2014 and analyzed 463 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 340 to 463 (36.2%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 262 to 463 (76.7%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 137 mentions (29.59% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: XML (+424 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: nginx (-45 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-20141201-go.js and summary-20141201-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 | 2 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | +3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 4 | +1 | 3 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 3 | -1 | 1 | -3 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 | +3 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 6 | 10 | +4 | 4 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 8 | +1 | 6 | -1 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 9 | +1 | 9 | +1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 9 | 6 | -3 | 10 | +1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 10 | 7 | -3 | 12 | +2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 11 | 14 | +3 | 11 | 0 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 12 | 11 | -1 | 7 | -5 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 17 | +4 | 21 | +8 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 14 | 16 | +2 | 33 | +19 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 15 | 12 | -3 | 19 | +4 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 16 | 13 | -3 | 20 | +4 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 15 | -2 | 14 | -3 |
| MySQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 18 | 23 | +5 | 22 | +4 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 19 | 18 | -1 | 17 | -2 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 20 | 19 | -1 | 25 | +5 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XML | Technology | Backend | data-format, api, backend, data | 9 | 81 | 0 | 505 | +424 |
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 13 | 69 | 0 | 449 | +380 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 18 | 57 | 0 | 425 | +368 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 8 | 86 | 0 | 432 | +346 |
| Perl | Technology | Language | language, backend, scripting, legacy | 8 | 85 | 0 | 406 | +321 |
| OpenGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, rendering, api | 5 | 107 | 0 | 398 | +291 |
| Swift | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 10 | 75 | 1 | 168 | +93 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 13 | 66 | 1 | 131 | +65 |
| Solr | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, apache | 6 | 101 | 1 | 165 | +64 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 5 | 108 | 1 | 162 | +54 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 6 | 99 | 7 | 54 | -45 |
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 8 | 84 | 10 | 46 | -38 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 7 | 94 | 6 | 60 | -34 |
| Celery | Technology | Backend | backend, python, task-queue, distributed | 5 | 104 | 4 | 71 | -33 |
| Shell | Technology | Language | language, scripting, systems, cli | 5 | 109 | 4 | 80 | -29 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 10 | 72 | 10 | 44 | -28 |
| Computer Vision | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, computer-vision, vision | 7 | 89 | 5 | 62 | -27 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 27 | 41 | 26 | 15 | -26 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 9 | 78 | 7 | 53 | -25 |
| Storm | Technology | Processing | stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering, data | 5 | 110 | 3 | 91 | -19 |
Target month: December 2014
Target postings: 463
Threads analyzed: 44