Generated locally from 60 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 2016 and analyzed 593 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 665 to 593 (-10.8%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 746 to 593 (-20.5%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 233 mentions (39.29% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Redux (+388 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Puppet (-45 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-20160401-go.js and summary-20160401-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 | 58 | +57 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 5 | 7 | +2 | 4 | -1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 5 | -1 | 9 | +3 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 7 | 6 | -1 | 5 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 8 | 0 | 6 | -2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 9 | 0 | 31 | +22 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 10 | 10 | 0 | 7 | -3 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 12 | 16 | +4 | 15 | +3 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 13 | 19 | +6 | 16 | +3 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 14 | 14 | 0 | 13 | -1 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 15 | 12 | -3 | 12 | -3 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 16 | 15 | -1 | 10 | -6 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 17 | 0 | 14 | -3 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 18 | 13 | -5 | 8 | -10 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 19 | 18 | -1 | 20 | +1 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 20 | 21 | +1 | 27 | +7 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redux | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, state-management, react | 15 | 58 | 0 | 446 | +388 |
| Webpack | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, build-tool | 5 | 116 | 0 | 500 | +384 |
| React Native | Technology | Mobile | mobile, frontend, javascript, react | 6 | 106 | 0 | 444 | +338 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 7 | 97 | 0 | 376 | +279 |
| Azure | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, microsoft, infrastructure | 6 | 102 | 0 | 256 | +154 |
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 5 | 115 | 1 | 224 | +109 |
| WebRTC | Technology | Network | network, realtime, frontend, web | 5 | 117 | 1 | 225 | +108 |
| App Engine | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, google, backend | 7 | 93 | 1 | 182 | +89 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 9 | 88 | 3 | 158 | +70 |
| Deep Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, neural-networks | 9 | 81 | 3 | 144 | +63 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 105 | 15 | 60 | -45 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 7 | 95 | 18 | 56 | -39 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 5 | 108 | 12 | 69 | -39 |
| Erlang | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, concurrent | 6 | 103 | 10 | 82 | -21 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 16 | 55 | 38 | 35 | -20 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 14 | 61 | 32 | 42 | -19 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 21 | 46 | 43 | 28 | -18 |
| Flask | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 9 | 82 | 13 | 67 | -15 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 9 | 87 | 12 | 73 | -14 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 26 | 39 | 46 | 26 | -13 |
Target month: April 2016
Target postings: 593
Threads analyzed: 60