Generated locally from 114 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 2020 and analyzed 710 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 600 to 710 (18.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 719 to 710 (-1.3%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 478 mentions (67.32% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Next.js (+127 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Junior (-33 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-20201001-go.js and summary-20201001-go.json.
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Rank | Last Month | Change | Last Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote | Work Attribute | Work Mode | remote, work-mode, role, location | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | +2 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | +2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 7 | +3 | 4 | 0 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 5 | 4 | -1 | 2 | -3 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 6 | 5 | -1 | 7 | +1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 7 | 6 | -1 | 6 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 10 | 11 | +1 | 18 | +8 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 10 | -1 | 11 | 0 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 12 | 13 | +1 | 13 | +1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 13 | 12 | -1 | 10 | -3 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 15 | +1 | 14 | 0 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 18 | +3 | 16 | +1 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 14 | -2 | 15 | -1 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 17 | 19 | +2 | 20 | +3 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 18 | 17 | -1 | 17 | -1 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 19 | 16 | -3 | 12 | -7 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 20 | 21 | +1 | 29 | +9 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 5 | 113 | 1 | 240 | +127 |
| DataDog | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, cloud | 6 | 99 | 2 | 173 | +74 |
| Kinesis | Technology | Processing | stream-processing, cloud, aws, data-engineering | 5 | 112 | 2 | 183 | +71 |
| gRPC | Technology | Backend | backend, api, rpc, distributed | 8 | 89 | 3 | 152 | +63 |
| .NET Core | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 8 | 88 | 3 | 145 | +57 |
| Webpack | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, build-tool | 5 | 118 | 3 | 167 | +49 |
| Oracle | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, relational | 5 | 114 | 3 | 159 | +45 |
| ETL | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, processing, pipeline, data | 5 | 109 | 3 | 149 | +40 |
| Flutter | Technology | Mobile | mobile, frontend, dart, cross-platform | 6 | 100 | 4 | 137 | +37 |
| AWS Lambda | Technology | Cloud | cloud, serverless, backend, aws | 6 | 97 | 4 | 132 | +35 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 5 | 111 | 13 | 78 | -33 |
| NLP | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, nlp, natural-language-processing | 6 | 104 | 14 | 76 | -28 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 15 | 64 | 32 | 38 | -26 |
| Computer Vision | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, computer-vision, vision | 10 | 83 | 19 | 61 | -22 |
| Jenkins | Technology | Tooling | ci, devops, developer-tooling, ci-cd | 6 | 102 | 12 | 81 | -21 |
| Spring Boot | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 5 | 116 | 9 | 96 | -20 |
| Clojure | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, functional | 12 | 77 | 19 | 60 | -17 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 18 | 56 | 32 | 40 | -16 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 12 | 73 | 21 | 57 | -16 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 8 | 93 | 13 | 79 | -14 |
Target month: October 2020
Target postings: 710
Threads analyzed: 114