Generated locally from 120 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 April 2021 and analyzed 877 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 904 to 877 (-3.0%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 457 to 877 (91.9%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 635 mentions (72.41% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Web Services (+366 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Robotics (-52 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-20210401-go.js and summary-20210401-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 | 2 | +1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | +1 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 | +3 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | +1 |
| 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 | 4 | -2 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | -6 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 8 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 9 | 9 | 0 | 10 | +1 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 10 | 10 | 0 | 12 | +2 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 16 | +4 | 9 | -3 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 13 | 13 | 0 | 14 | +1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 14 | 12 | -2 | 17 | +3 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 15 | 0 | 20 | +5 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 16 | 14 | -2 | 16 | 0 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 17 | 21 | +4 | 13 | -4 |
| Kubernetes | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, orchestration, distributed | 18 | 24 | +6 | 23 | +5 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 19 | 18 | -1 | 29 | +10 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 20 | 19 | -1 | 24 | +4 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 5 | 129 | 0 | 495 | +366 |
| IaC | Technology | Infrastructure | iac, infrastructure, devops, infrastructure-as-code | 9 | 96 | 0 | 352 | +256 |
| Factor | Technology | Language | language, concatenative, stack-based | 6 | 114 | 0 | 313 | +199 |
| Ember | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 6 | 112 | 0 | 308 | +196 |
| BigQuery | Technology | Database | database, analytics, cloud, storage | 6 | 110 | 0 | 256 | +146 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 5 | 120 | 0 | 264 | +144 |
| Tailwind | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 6 | 118 | 1 | 212 | +94 |
| Webpack | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, build-tool | 5 | 131 | 1 | 218 | +87 |
| web3 | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 5 | 130 | 1 | 216 | +86 |
| OpenStack | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, private-cloud, iaas | 5 | 126 | 1 | 197 | +71 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 7 | 105 | 12 | 53 | -52 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 11 | 88 | 13 | 46 | -42 |
| RabbitMQ | Technology | Backend | messaging, backend, distributed, queue | 5 | 128 | 6 | 86 | -42 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 18 | 69 | 18 | 38 | -31 |
| Computer Vision | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, computer-vision, vision | 12 | 85 | 11 | 55 | -30 |
| Deep Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, neural-networks | 18 | 67 | 15 | 40 | -27 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 13 | 82 | 11 | 56 | -26 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 12 | 86 | 10 | 60 | -26 |
| Apollo | Technology | Backend | backend, api, graphql, javascript | 7 | 101 | 8 | 75 | -26 |
| LESS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, legacy | 15 | 77 | 12 | 52 | -25 |
Target month: April 2021
Target postings: 877
Threads analyzed: 120