Generated locally from 90 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 October 2018 and analyzed 894 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 691 to 894 (29.4%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 884 to 894 (1.1%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 512 mentions (57.27% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Keras (+145 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: D3.js (-56 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-20181001-go.js and summary-20181001-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 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 2 | 4 | +2 | 7 | +5 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 4 | 2 | -2 | 2 | -2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 6 | 7 | +1 | 5 | -1 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 7 | 6 | -1 | 4 | -3 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 10 | +1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 10 | 12 | +2 | 9 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 11 | 11 | 0 | 12 | +1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 12 | 14 | +2 | 14 | +2 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 13 | 10 | -3 | 11 | -2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 14 | 13 | -1 | 18 | +4 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 15 | 16 | +1 | 16 | +1 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 16 | 17 | +1 | 13 | -3 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 17 | 19 | +2 | 17 | 0 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 18 | 15 | -3 | 21 | +3 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 19 | 22 | +3 | 22 | +3 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 20 | 18 | -2 | 15 | -5 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keras | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 8 | 104 | 1 | 249 | +145 |
| Electron | Technology | Frontend | frontend, desktop, javascript, cross-platform | 7 | 115 | 1 | 236 | +121 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 8 | 107 | 2 | 215 | +108 |
| Prometheus | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, infrastructure | 8 | 108 | 2 | 216 | +108 |
| ECS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, container, aws, infrastructure | 5 | 141 | 1 | 234 | +93 |
| Airflow | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, orchestration, pipeline, workflow | 9 | 96 | 2 | 188 | +92 |
| Tableau | Technology | Data Engineering | analytics, bi, data-visualization, data | 5 | 148 | 2 | 220 | +72 |
| Assembly | Technology | Language | language, systems, low-level | 5 | 137 | 2 | 191 | +54 |
| statistics | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | statistics, data, ml, math | 6 | 133 | 3 | 185 | +52 |
| Puppet | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 132 | 3 | 181 | +49 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D3.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, visualization, javascript, data-visualization | 5 | 140 | 13 | 84 | -56 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 7 | 120 | 20 | 66 | -54 |
| ETL | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, processing, pipeline, data | 6 | 127 | 14 | 82 | -45 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 7 | 114 | 17 | 71 | -43 |
| SQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, query-language, language | 20 | 71 | 50 | 32 | -39 |
| jQuery | Technology | Frontend | frontend, javascript, web, library | 6 | 128 | 12 | 90 | -38 |
| IaC | Technology | Infrastructure | iac, infrastructure, devops, infrastructure-as-code | 5 | 146 | 8 | 115 | -31 |
| Objective-C | Technology | Language | language, mobile, ios, apple | 7 | 117 | 13 | 88 | -29 |
| Bootstrap | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 6 | 123 | 11 | 94 | -29 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 18 | 75 | 28 | 52 | -23 |
Target month: October 2018
Target postings: 894
Threads analyzed: 90