Generated locally from 53 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 2015 and analyzed 699 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 785 to 699 (-11.0%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 279 to 699 (150.5%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 238 mentions (34.05% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: VR (+385 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: HTML5 (-43 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-20150901-go.js and summary-20150901-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 1 | 0 | 47 | +46 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 4 | +1 | 4 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 6 | +2 | 7 | +3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 5 | 3 | -2 | 3 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 7 | +1 | 5 | -1 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 7 | 8 | +1 | 9 | +2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 8 | 5 | -3 | 1 | -7 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 9 | 9 | 0 | 16 | +7 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 10 | 11 | +1 | 8 | -2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 11 | 10 | -1 | 6 | -5 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 15 | +3 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 13 | 16 | +3 | 10 | -3 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 14 | 13 | -1 | 17 | +3 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 15 | 14 | -1 | 11 | -4 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 16 | 15 | -1 | 13 | -3 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 17 | 17 | 0 | 73 | +56 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 18 | 18 | 0 | 34 | +16 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 19 | 19 | 0 | 22 | +3 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 20 | 26 | +6 | 19 | -1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 6 | 106 | 0 | 491 | +385 |
| Mesos | Technology | Infrastructure | orchestration, infrastructure, distributed, devops | 6 | 102 | 0 | 377 | +275 |
| Neo4j | Technology | Database | database, graph, storage, nosql | 5 | 113 | 0 | 385 | +272 |
| Flux | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, gitops, devops, infrastructure | 14 | 66 | 0 | 308 | +242 |
| GPU | Technology | Processing | processing, hardware, ml, hpc | 6 | 96 | 0 | 326 | +230 |
| Kafka | Technology | Data Engineering | streaming, messaging, distributed, backend | 20 | 56 | 1 | 177 | +121 |
| Scrum | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 6 | 104 | 1 | 196 | +92 |
| Redshift | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, aws | 6 | 103 | 1 | 194 | +91 |
| WordPress | Technology | Backend | backend, cms, php, web | 5 | 119 | 1 | 205 | +86 |
| WebRTC | Technology | Network | network, realtime, frontend, web | 5 | 118 | 1 | 203 | +85 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTML5 | Technology | Frontend | frontend, html, web, markup | 12 | 73 | 22 | 30 | -43 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 7 | 91 | 10 | 57 | -34 |
| Bash | Technology | Language | language, scripting, shell, systems | 5 | 109 | 6 | 75 | -34 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 9 | 85 | 11 | 54 | -31 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 25 | 49 | 29 | 20 | -29 |
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 9 | 86 | 10 | 58 | -28 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 24 | 50 | 27 | 25 | -25 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 22 | 53 | 23 | 29 | -24 |
| Apache | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, web-server, backend, apache | 6 | 92 | 7 | 68 | -24 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 15 | 61 | 18 | 38 | -23 |
Target month: September 2015
Target postings: 699
Threads analyzed: 53