Generated locally from 67 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 November 2016 and analyzed 838 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 784 to 838 (6.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 701 to 838 (19.5%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 412 mentions (49.16% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: TensorFlow (+357 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Flux (-63 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-20161101-go.js and summary-20161101-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 | 1 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 3 | 5 | +2 | 4 | +1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 3 | -1 | 3 | -1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 4 | -1 | 5 | 0 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 8 | +2 | 12 | +6 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 8 | 9 | +1 | 9 | +1 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 9 | 6 | -3 | 8 | -1 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 11 | +1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 11 | 12 | +1 | 15 | +4 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 12 | 16 | +4 | 10 | -2 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 13 | 23 | +10 | 19 | +6 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 14 | 21 | +7 | 6 | -8 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 11 | -4 | 24 | +9 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 16 | 14 | -2 | 20 | +4 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 17 | 0 | 13 | -4 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 18 | 18 | 0 | 18 | 0 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 19 | 15 | -4 | 16 | -3 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 20 | 13 | -7 | 14 | -6 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TensorFlow | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, google | 7 | 116 | 0 | 473 | +357 |
| Terraform | Technology | Infrastructure | iac, infrastructure, cloud, devops | 7 | 117 | 0 | 474 | +357 |
| GraphQL | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, query-language | 9 | 94 | 0 | 349 | +255 |
| SCSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 8 | 107 | 1 | 212 | +105 |
| React Native | Technology | Mobile | mobile, frontend, javascript, react | 21 | 60 | 2 | 163 | +103 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 13 | 79 | 2 | 166 | +87 |
| Vue | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 137 | 1 | 223 | +86 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 11 | 87 | 2 | 164 | +77 |
| Mesos | Technology | Infrastructure | orchestration, infrastructure, distributed, devops | 11 | 85 | 2 | 160 | +75 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 10 | 92 | 2 | 167 | +75 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flux | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, gitops, devops, infrastructure | 6 | 122 | 15 | 59 | -63 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 134 | 12 | 71 | -63 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 9 | 98 | 15 | 60 | -38 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 8 | 101 | 12 | 68 | -33 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 8 | 102 | 12 | 69 | -33 |
| Webpack | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, build-tool | 7 | 118 | 8 | 85 | -33 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 19 | 67 | 31 | 36 | -31 |
| Jenkins | Technology | Tooling | ci, devops, developer-tooling, ci-cd | 7 | 112 | 8 | 83 | -29 |
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 11 | 84 | 15 | 58 | -26 |
| Hadoop | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, storage | 15 | 76 | 19 | 52 | -24 |
Target month: November 2016
Target postings: 838
Threads analyzed: 67