Generated locally from 106 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 February 2020 and analyzed 579 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 574 to 579 (0.9%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 692 to 579 (-16.3%).
Top term this month: Onsite at rank 1 with 319 mentions (55.09% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Ethereum (+128 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Spark (-29 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-20200201-go.js and summary-20200201-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 |
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | +5 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | -2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 8 | +2 | 4 | -2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 7 | 6 | -1 | 8 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 7 | -1 | 6 | -2 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 10 | 11 | +1 | 10 | 0 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 11 | 12 | +1 | 20 | +9 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 13 | +1 | 11 | -1 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 13 | 15 | +2 | 23 | +10 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 10 | -4 | 13 | -1 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 15 | 17 | +2 | 26 | +11 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 16 | 14 | -2 | 14 | -2 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 17 | 16 | -1 | 12 | -5 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 18 | 25 | +7 | 17 | -1 |
| Docker | Technology | Infrastructure | container, infrastructure, devops, containers | 19 | 19 | 0 | 15 | -4 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 20 | 26 | +6 | 29 | +9 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethereum | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 7 | 92 | 1 | 220 | +128 |
| AR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, ar | 7 | 89 | 2 | 170 | +81 |
| gRPC | Technology | Backend | backend, api, rpc, distributed | 6 | 105 | 2 | 186 | +81 |
| DataDog | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, cloud | 5 | 111 | 2 | 180 | +69 |
| Prometheus | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, infrastructure | 7 | 96 | 3 | 164 | +68 |
| Laravel | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, php, php-framework | 6 | 107 | 3 | 160 | +53 |
| Heroku | Technology | Cloud | cloud, paas, backend, hosting | 13 | 65 | 6 | 115 | +50 |
| PyTorch | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 5 | 118 | 3 | 165 | +47 |
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 5 | 119 | 3 | 166 | +47 |
| nginx | Technology | Network | network, web-server, load-balancing, infrastructure | 7 | 95 | 4 | 141 | +46 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 10 | 77 | 26 | 48 | -29 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 8 | 88 | 19 | 62 | -26 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 11 | 73 | 23 | 54 | -19 |
| Elixir | Technology | Language | language, backend, distributed, erlang-vm | 10 | 76 | 20 | 59 | -17 |
| Kafka | Technology | Data Engineering | streaming, messaging, distributed, backend | 15 | 61 | 27 | 45 | -16 |
| Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 9 | 80 | 18 | 64 | -16 |
| Redshift | Technology | Database | database, warehouse, cloud, aws | 7 | 99 | 12 | 83 | -16 |
| Django | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, web | 22 | 42 | 45 | 28 | -14 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 20 | 48 | 37 | 34 | -14 |
| Phoenix | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, elixir, web | 5 | 117 | 8 | 103 | -14 |
Target month: February 2020
Target postings: 579
Threads analyzed: 106