Generated locally from 57 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 January 2016 and analyzed 372 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 358 to 372 (3.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 271 to 372 (37.3%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 156 mentions (41.94% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Redux (+362 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Ansible (-36 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-20160101-go.js and summary-20160101-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 | 57 | +56 |
| 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 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 4 | 5 | +1 | 4 | 0 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 5 | 7 | +2 | 3 | -2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 4 | -2 | 5 | -1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 6 | -1 | 6 | -1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 8 | 8 | 0 | 12 | +4 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 11 | +2 | 66 | +57 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 10 | 10 | 0 | 8 | -2 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 11 | 9 | -2 | 11 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 13 | +1 | 18 | +6 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 13 | 12 | -1 | 7 | -6 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 14 | 17 | +3 | 13 | -1 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 15 | 19 | +4 | 10 | -5 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 16 | 16 | 0 | 31 | +15 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 17 | 18 | +1 | 20 | +3 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 18 | 20 | +2 | 9 | -9 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 19 | 26 | +7 | 29 | +10 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 20 | 31 | +11 | 16 | -4 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redux | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, state-management, react | 7 | 73 | 0 | 435 | +362 |
| Rust | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 5 | 93 | 0 | 440 | +347 |
| NumPy | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data-science, python, ml, math | 6 | 82 | 0 | 391 | +309 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 5 | 90 | 0 | 293 | +203 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 7 | 68 | 0 | 210 | +142 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 9 | 61 | 1 | 186 | +125 |
| SRE | Work Attribute | Work Area | sre, observability, infrastructure, work-area | 6 | 84 | 1 | 190 | +106 |
| Azure | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, microsoft, infrastructure | 8 | 63 | 1 | 145 | +82 |
| Lua | Technology | Language | language, scripting, embedded, gaming | 5 | 92 | 1 | 169 | +77 |
| Pandas | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data-science, python, analytics, data-analysis | 8 | 67 | 2 | 134 | +67 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 85 | 11 | 49 | -36 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 88 | 9 | 55 | -33 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 6 | 78 | 12 | 47 | -31 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 10 | 57 | 17 | 30 | -27 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 5 | 87 | 8 | 60 | -27 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 10 | 56 | 16 | 33 | -23 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 10 | 59 | 15 | 36 | -23 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 14 | 45 | 20 | 24 | -21 |
| Agile | Process | Methodology | process, agile, methodology, management | 10 | 55 | 15 | 34 | -21 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 19 | 34 | 30 | 14 | -20 |
Target month: January 2016
Target postings: 372
Threads analyzed: 57