Generated locally from 79 historical hiring threads with the expanded Go dictionary.
Generated on Monday, April 27, 2026 from the target Hacker News thread.
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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 2017 and analyzed 904 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 884 to 904 (2.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 838 to 904 (7.9%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 476 mentions (52.65% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Jupyter (+239 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: CoffeeScript (-55 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-20171101-go.js and summary-20171101-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 | 4 | +1 | 4 | +1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 4 | 7 | +3 | 5 | +1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 3 | -2 | 6 | +1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 6 | 0 | 3 | -3 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 7 | 5 | -2 | 7 | 0 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 8 | 0 | 9 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 9 | 9 | 0 | 8 | -1 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 10 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 12 | 0 | 13 | +1 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 13 | 13 | 0 | 17 | +4 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 14 | 14 | 0 | 15 | +1 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 15 | 15 | 0 | 16 | +1 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 16 | 0 | 18 | +2 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 17 | 19 | +2 | 20 | +3 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 18 | 17 | -1 | 22 | +4 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 19 | 18 | -1 | 21 | +2 |
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 20 | 20 | 0 | 12 | -8 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupyter | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | data-science, ml, tooling, notebooks | 5 | 139 | 0 | 378 | +239 |
| Sidekiq | Technology | Backend | backend, job-queue, ruby, task-queue | 7 | 125 | 1 | 249 | +124 |
| HPC | Technology | Processing | processing, distributed, performance, infrastructure | 7 | 121 | 1 | 234 | +113 |
| Rust | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 16 | 77 | 3 | 171 | +94 |
| EmberJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 137 | 1 | 226 | +89 |
| .NET Core | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 6 | 126 | 1 | 213 | +87 |
| GCP | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, google, infrastructure | 10 | 107 | 2 | 184 | +77 |
| Kotlin | Technology | Language | language, mobile, backend, jvm | 12 | 95 | 3 | 166 | +71 |
| Ethereum | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 12 | 92 | 3 | 161 | +69 |
| Jest | Technology | Testing | testing, frontend, javascript, react | 6 | 131 | 2 | 191 | +60 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CoffeeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, javascript, legacy | 5 | 135 | 12 | 80 | -55 |
| ASP | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft, web | 5 | 134 | 10 | 88 | -46 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 11 | 105 | 17 | 71 | -34 |
| ES6 | Technology | Language | language, javascript, frontend, web | 15 | 79 | 31 | 49 | -30 |
| Backbone | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 11 | 96 | 19 | 67 | -29 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 7 | 122 | 9 | 95 | -27 |
| Mesos | Technology | Infrastructure | orchestration, infrastructure, distributed, devops | 9 | 111 | 11 | 85 | -26 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 9 | 112 | 11 | 86 | -26 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 8 | 118 | 10 | 92 | -26 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 7 | 123 | 9 | 97 | -26 |
Target month: November 2017
Target postings: 904
Threads analyzed: 79