Generated locally from 65 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 2016 and analyzed 642 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 736 to 642 (-12.8%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 699 to 642 (-8.2%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 306 mentions (47.66% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: TypeScript (+141 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Bootstrap (-51 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-20160901-go.js and summary-20160901-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 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 4 | 6 | +2 | 5 | +1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 5 | 0 | 9 | +4 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 4 | -2 | 4 | -2 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 7 | 8 | +1 | 8 | +1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 7 | -1 | 17 | +9 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 9 | 9 | 0 | 6 | -3 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 14 | +4 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 11 | 18 | +7 | 21 | +10 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 12 | 21 | +9 | 24 | +12 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 13 | 12 | -1 | 13 | 0 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 14 | 11 | -3 | 11 | -3 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 15 | 15 | 0 | 7 | -8 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 16 | 17 | +1 | 15 | -1 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 17 | 14 | -3 | 16 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 18 | 16 | -2 | 12 | -6 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 19 | 19 | 0 | 10 | -9 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 20 | 13 | -7 | 18 | -2 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 10 | 79 | 1 | 220 | +141 |
| Redux | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, state-management, react | 25 | 46 | 2 | 170 | +124 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 15 | 65 | 2 | 164 | +99 |
| Solr | Technology | Database | database, search, storage, apache | 7 | 97 | 2 | 172 | +75 |
| Terraform | Technology | Infrastructure | iac, infrastructure, cloud, devops | 7 | 99 | 2 | 173 | +74 |
| AR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, ar | 5 | 110 | 1 | 177 | +67 |
| Elixir | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, erlang-vm | 7 | 93 | 2 | 157 | +64 |
| SRE | Work Attribute | Work Area | sre, observability, infrastructure, work-area | 22 | 51 | 6 | 105 | +54 |
| DynamoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, cloud, aws | 6 | 102 | 2 | 154 | +52 |
| Azure | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, microsoft, infrastructure | 9 | 80 | 3 | 127 | +47 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 5 | 111 | 15 | 60 | -51 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 13 | 72 | 35 | 34 | -38 |
| CSS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, styling | 16 | 61 | 41 | 27 | -34 |
| RabbitMQ | Technology | Backend | messaging, backend, distributed, queue | 6 | 107 | 12 | 75 | -32 |
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 7 | 92 | 15 | 61 | -31 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 7 | 98 | 14 | 68 | -30 |
| SQL Server | Technology | Database | database, sql, microsoft, storage | 6 | 108 | 10 | 83 | -25 |
| TDD | Process | Methodology | testing, process, agile, methodology | 6 | 109 | 10 | 84 | -25 |
| PHP | Technology | Language | language, backend, web | 23 | 48 | 42 | 26 | -22 |
| Cassandra | Technology | Database | database, nosql, distributed, storage | 11 | 75 | 21 | 54 | -21 |
Target month: September 2016
Target postings: 642
Threads analyzed: 65