Generated locally from 113 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 2020 and analyzed 600 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 642 to 600 (-6.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 607 to 600 (-1.2%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 383 mentions (63.83% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Next.js (+139 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Ansible (-31 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-20200901-go.js and summary-20200901-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 | 4 | +1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 4 | 7 | +3 | 2 | -2 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 | +2 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 7 | 4 | -3 | 5 | -2 |
| 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 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 10 | 10 | 0 | 11 | +1 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 11 | 11 | 0 | 15 | +4 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 15 | +3 | 13 | +1 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 13 | 13 | 0 | 14 | +1 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 14 | 16 | +2 | 10 | -4 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 15 | 18 | +3 | 12 | -3 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 16 | 17 | +1 | 16 | 0 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 17 | 14 | -3 | 21 | +4 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 18 | 12 | -6 | 17 | -1 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 19 | 19 | 0 | 18 | -1 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 20 | 25 | +5 | 19 | -1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Next.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 9 | 86 | 1 | 225 | +139 |
| AR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, ar | 5 | 99 | 1 | 195 | +96 |
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 6 | 96 | 2 | 187 | +91 |
| Laravel | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, php, php-framework | 6 | 93 | 2 | 171 | +78 |
| PyTorch | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 5 | 104 | 2 | 181 | +77 |
| gRPC | Technology | Backend | backend, api, rpc, distributed | 5 | 103 | 2 | 165 | +62 |
| TensorFlow | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, google | 16 | 59 | 5 | 116 | +57 |
| GitLab | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 9 | 81 | 3 | 137 | +56 |
| Airflow | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, orchestration, pipeline, workflow | 5 | 97 | 2 | 152 | +55 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 10 | 78 | 4 | 125 | +47 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 8 | 88 | 18 | 57 | -31 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 7 | 91 | 14 | 66 | -25 |
| Microservices | Technology | Backend | backend, distributed, architecture, distributed-systems | 9 | 85 | 16 | 62 | -23 |
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 7 | 92 | 13 | 69 | -23 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 12 | 70 | 21 | 48 | -22 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 8 | 90 | 12 | 72 | -18 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 21 | 43 | 33 | 29 | -14 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 11 | 74 | 16 | 61 | -13 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 9 | 84 | 12 | 71 | -13 |
| AngularJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 21 | 42 | 32 | 30 | -12 |
Target month: September 2020
Target postings: 600
Threads analyzed: 113