Generated locally from 59 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 2016 and analyzed 665 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 648 to 665 (2.6%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 505 to 665 (31.7%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 244 mentions (36.69% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Xamarin (+401 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: EC2 (-37 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-20160301-go.js and summary-20160301-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 | 48 | +47 |
| 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 | 4 | +1 | 2 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 3 | -1 | 4 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 7 | +2 | 9 | +4 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 6 | 8 | +2 | 6 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 5 | -2 | 5 | -2 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 6 | -2 | 3 | -5 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 9 | 9 | 0 | 28 | +19 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 10 | 11 | +1 | 7 | -3 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 11 | 12 | +1 | 11 | 0 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 12 | 13 | +1 | 10 | -2 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 13 | 17 | +4 | 8 | -5 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 14 | 10 | -4 | 15 | +1 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 15 | 18 | +3 | 12 | -3 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 16 | 15 | -1 | 14 | -2 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 16 | -1 | 13 | -4 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 18 | 14 | -4 | 19 | +1 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 19 | 20 | +1 | 17 | -2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 20 | 21 | +1 | 25 | +5 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xamarin | Technology | Mobile | mobile, cross-platform, dotnet, c# | 7 | 103 | 0 | 504 | +401 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 7 | 101 | 0 | 489 | +388 |
| WebRTC | Technology | Network | network, realtime, frontend, web | 6 | 112 | 0 | 499 | +387 |
| Redux | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, state-management, react | 6 | 109 | 0 | 432 | +323 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 7 | 96 | 0 | 358 | +262 |
| React Native | Technology | Mobile | mobile, frontend, javascript, react | 7 | 97 | 1 | 192 | +95 |
| Elixir | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, erlang-vm | 9 | 78 | 1 | 167 | +89 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 108 | 1 | 190 | +82 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 5 | 118 | 1 | 191 | +73 |
| ASP | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, web | 8 | 86 | 1 | 158 | +72 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC2 | Technology | Cloud | cloud, compute, aws, infrastructure | 6 | 105 | 9 | 68 | -37 |
| TDD | Process | Methodology | testing, process, agile, methodology | 5 | 119 | 6 | 85 | -34 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 8 | 87 | 13 | 55 | -32 |
| Flask | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 8 | 89 | 12 | 60 | -29 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 7 | 99 | 9 | 73 | -26 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 8 | 91 | 9 | 72 | -19 |
| Linux | Technology | Infrastructure | linux, systems, infrastructure, os | 31 | 36 | 42 | 18 | -18 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 23 | 48 | 25 | 30 | -18 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 6 | 104 | 5 | 86 | -18 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 7 | 98 | 7 | 81 | -17 |
Target month: March 2016
Target postings: 665
Threads analyzed: 59