Generated locally from 51 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 July 2015 and analyzed 835 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 586 to 835 (42.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 418 to 835 (99.8%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 229 mentions (27.43% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: WebGL (+397 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: WordPress (-44 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-20150701-go.js and summary-20150701-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 3 | +2 | 50 | +49 |
| 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 | 4 | +1 | 3 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 2 | -2 | 4 | 0 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 5 | 6 | +1 | 2 | -3 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 5 | -1 | 7 | +1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 7 | 8 | +1 | 11 | +4 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 7 | -1 | 5 | -3 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 9 | 9 | 0 | 8 | -1 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 10 | 11 | +1 | 10 | 0 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 11 | 12 | +1 | 13 | +2 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 12 | 17 | +5 | 18 | +6 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 13 | 16 | +3 | 9 | -4 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 14 | 14 | 0 | 15 | +1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 15 | 13 | -2 | 6 | -9 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 16 | 10 | -6 | 14 | -2 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 15 | -2 | 12 | -5 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 18 | 20 | +2 | 23 | +5 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 19 | 19 | 0 | 95 | +76 |
| Angular | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 20 | 21 | +1 | 30 | +10 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 7 | 105 | 0 | 502 | +397 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 5 | 128 | 0 | 494 | +366 |
| SOAP | Technology | Backend | backend, api, enterprise, web | 5 | 127 | 0 | 456 | +329 |
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 12 | 75 | 0 | 391 | +316 |
| Flux | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, gitops, devops, infrastructure | 12 | 73 | 0 | 322 | +249 |
| GPU | Technology | Processing | processing, hardware, ml, hpc | 6 | 109 | 0 | 339 | +230 |
| Gulp | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, tooling | 5 | 122 | 0 | 346 | +224 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 7 | 99 | 0 | 306 | +207 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 9 | 85 | 0 | 228 | +143 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 7 | 101 | 1 | 207 | +106 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress | Technology | Backend | backend, cms, php, web | 5 | 129 | 7 | 85 | -44 |
| memcached | Technology | Database | cache, database, backend, storage | 6 | 113 | 8 | 75 | -38 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 28 | 51 | 40 | 20 | -31 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 9 | 87 | 11 | 61 | -26 |
| TDD | Process | Methodology | testing, process, agile, methodology | 8 | 98 | 9 | 72 | -26 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 7 | 103 | 8 | 77 | -26 |
| SRE | Work Attribute | Work Area | sre, observability, infrastructure, work-area | 7 | 104 | 8 | 78 | -26 |
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 10 | 83 | 13 | 59 | -24 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 9 | 91 | 10 | 69 | -22 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 6 | 116 | 5 | 96 | -20 |
Target month: July 2015
Target postings: 835
Threads analyzed: 51