Generated locally from 47 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 March 2015 and analyzed 505 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 493 to 505 (2.4%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 336 to 505 (50.3%).
Top term this month: Front End at rank 1 with 132 mentions (26.14% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Vagrant (+406 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: D3.js (-28 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-20150301-go.js and summary-20150301-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 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 2 | 3 | +1 | 4 | +2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 3 | 7 | +4 | 6 | +3 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 5 | +1 | 7 | +3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 5 | 2 | -3 | 3 | -2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 6 | 4 | -2 | 1 | -5 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 7 | 11 | +4 | 5 | -2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 8 | 6 | -2 | 10 | +2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 9 | 8 | -1 | 8 | -1 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 10 | 14 | +4 | 9 | -1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 11 | 9 | -2 | 12 | +1 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 12 | 10 | -2 | 13 | +1 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 13 | 12 | -1 | 14 | +1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 13 | -1 | 11 | -3 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 15 | 15 | 0 | 38 | +23 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 16 | 16 | 0 | 19 | +3 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 17 | 29 | +12 | 28 | +11 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 18 | 21 | +3 | 39 | +21 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 19 | 18 | -1 | 20 | +1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 20 | 17 | -3 | 25 | +5 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vagrant | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, devops, virtualization, environments | 9 | 75 | 0 | 481 | +406 |
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 9 | 70 | 0 | 378 | +308 |
| Flux | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, gitops, devops, infrastructure | 6 | 84 | 0 | 300 | +216 |
| Deep Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, neural-networks | 5 | 87 | 0 | 261 | +174 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 6 | 83 | 0 | 190 | +107 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 7 | 81 | 1 | 164 | +83 |
| Solr | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, apache | 5 | 93 | 1 | 169 | +76 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 5 | 92 | 1 | 162 | +70 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 26 | 29 | 3 | 97 | +68 |
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 11 | 64 | 2 | 122 | +58 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 7 | 79 | 11 | 51 | -28 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 7 | 82 | 10 | 54 | -28 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 17 | 51 | 22 | 24 | -27 |
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 13 | 57 | 17 | 30 | -27 |
| C# | Technology | Language | language, backend, microsoft, dotnet | 7 | 78 | 9 | 56 | -22 |
| R | Technology | Language | language, data, statistics, ml | 5 | 91 | 6 | 69 | -22 |
| TDD | Process | Methodology | testing, process, agile, methodology | 6 | 85 | 7 | 64 | -21 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 20 | 41 | 22 | 23 | -18 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 18 | 47 | 17 | 29 | -18 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 25 | 32 | 30 | 16 | -16 |
Target month: March 2015
Target postings: 505
Threads analyzed: 47