Generated locally from 48 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 April 2015 and analyzed 746 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 505 to 746 (47.7%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 353 to 746 (111.3%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 209 mentions (28.02% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Microservices (+315 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: NLP (-49 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-20150401-go.js and summary-20150401-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 | 1 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 3 | 4 | +1 | 8 | +5 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 4 | 5 | +1 | 4 | 0 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 5 | 6 | +1 | 2 | -3 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 3 | -3 | 6 | 0 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 7 | 7 | 0 | 5 | -2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 | -1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 10 | 12 | +2 | 16 | +6 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 12 | 10 | -2 | 10 | -2 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 13 | 15 | +2 | 21 | +8 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 14 | 13 | -1 | 12 | -2 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 15 | 14 | -1 | 14 | -1 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 17 | +1 | 27 | +11 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 17 | 16 | -1 | 15 | -2 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 18 | 20 | +2 | 23 | +5 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 19 | 23 | +4 | 13 | -6 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 20 | 19 | -1 | 28 | +8 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 12 | 71 | 0 | 386 | +315 |
| NumPy | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data-science, python, ml, math | 5 | 114 | 0 | 400 | +286 |
| GPU | Technology | Processing | processing, hardware, ml, hpc | 5 | 109 | 0 | 330 | +221 |
| Flux | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, gitops, devops, infrastructure | 8 | 91 | 0 | 310 | +219 |
| Flask | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 13 | 67 | 1 | 172 | +105 |
| Erlang | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, concurrent | 10 | 82 | 1 | 170 | +88 |
| Swift | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 13 | 68 | 2 | 147 | +79 |
| Redshift | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, aws | 5 | 117 | 1 | 191 | +74 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 12 | 73 | 3 | 122 | +49 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 41 | 31 | 6 | 79 | +48 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NLP | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, nlp, natural-language-processing | 5 | 113 | 9 | 64 | -49 |
| Perl | Technology | Language | language, backend, scripting, legacy | 5 | 116 | 6 | 77 | -39 |
| LAMP | Technology | Backend | backend, stack, php, linux | 6 | 98 | 11 | 60 | -38 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 10 | 85 | 15 | 48 | -37 |
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 8 | 92 | 12 | 57 | -35 |
| Vagrant | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, devops, virtualization, environments | 5 | 124 | 5 | 92 | -32 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 11 | 76 | 16 | 45 | -31 |
| Scrum | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 5 | 119 | 5 | 90 | -29 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 9 | 90 | 9 | 66 | -24 |
| DynamoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, cloud, aws | 5 | 108 | 5 | 85 | -23 |
Target month: April 2015
Target postings: 746
Threads analyzed: 48