Generated locally from 41 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 September 2014 and analyzed 279 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 477 to 279 (-41.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 238 to 279 (17.2%).
Top term this month: JavaScript at rank 1 with 92 mentions (32.97% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: React (+362 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Objective-C (-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-20140901-go.js and summary-20140901-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 1 | 4 | +3 | 2 | +1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 1 | -1 | 1 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 3 | 2 | -1 | 6 | +3 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 3 | -1 | 5 | +1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | -2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 6 | 6 | 0 | 15 | +9 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 7 | 9 | +2 | 9 | +2 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 | -1 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 9 | 7 | -2 | 10 | +1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 10 | 14 | +4 | 4 | -6 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 11 | 10 | -1 | 12 | +1 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 12 | 15 | +3 | 32 | +20 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 13 | 11 | -2 | 11 | -2 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 14 | 17 | +3 | 17 | +3 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 15 | 13 | -2 | 29 | +14 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 16 | 12 | -4 | 8 | -8 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 17 | 21 | +4 | 30 | +13 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 18 | 16 | -2 | 24 | +6 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 19 | 26 | +7 | 13 | -6 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 20 | 38 | +18 | 42 | +22 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 7 | 73 | 0 | 435 | +362 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 8 | 64 | 0 | 257 | +193 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 7 | 68 | 0 | 188 | +120 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 7 | 74 | 1 | 149 | +75 |
| Shell | Technology | Language | language, scripting, systems, cli | 6 | 81 | 1 | 153 | +72 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 10 | 56 | 1 | 109 | +53 |
| JSON | Technology | Backend | data-format, api, backend, data | 6 | 79 | 1 | 131 | +52 |
| Compass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, sass | 7 | 70 | 1 | 120 | +50 |
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 10 | 58 | 2 | 106 | +48 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 18 | 39 | 3 | 80 | +41 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 8 | 66 | 13 | 37 | -29 |
| Elasticsearch | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, observability | 6 | 76 | 8 | 48 | -28 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 77 | 8 | 49 | -28 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 14 | 48 | 16 | 28 | -20 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 17 | 41 | 17 | 23 | -18 |
| C# | Technology | Language | language, backend, microsoft, dotnet | 8 | 62 | 9 | 44 | -18 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 21 | 32 | 21 | 16 | -16 |
| API | Technology | Backend | backend, api, integration, web | 18 | 37 | 18 | 21 | -16 |
| .NET | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 16 | 42 | 16 | 26 | -16 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 19 | 35 | 19 | 20 | -15 |
Target month: September 2014
Target postings: 279
Threads analyzed: 41