Generated locally from 119 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 March 2021 and analyzed 904 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 939 to 904 (-3.7%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 645 to 904 (40.2%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 647 mentions (71.57% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Sass (+312 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Electron (-40 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-20210301-go.js and summary-20210301-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 | 4 | +2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 3 | 5 | +2 | 3 | 0 |
| 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 | 3 | -2 | 7 | +2 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 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 | 9 | 0 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 10 | 11 | +1 | 13 | +3 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 10 | -1 | 10 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 12 | 17 | +5 | 12 | 0 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 13 | 13 | 0 | 14 | +1 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 14 | 14 | 0 | 16 | +2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 16 | +1 | 26 | +11 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 16 | 12 | -4 | 11 | -5 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 17 | 18 | +1 | 15 | -2 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 18 | 20 | +2 | 24 | +6 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 19 | 19 | 0 | 21 | +2 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 20 | 22 | +2 | 27 | +7 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sass | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, preprocessor, styling | 5 | 142 | 0 | 454 | +312 |
| WordPress | Technology | Backend | backend, cms, php, web | 7 | 117 | 1 | 262 | +145 |
| VR | Technology | Frontend | ar-vr, graphics, frontend, vr | 5 | 143 | 1 | 260 | +117 |
| Figma | Technology | Tooling | design, tooling, frontend, ui | 7 | 111 | 1 | 217 | +106 |
| Firebase | Technology | Cloud | cloud, backend, mobile, google | 7 | 112 | 1 | 218 | +106 |
| Chef | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 6 | 121 | 1 | 200 | +79 |
| dbt | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, analytics, sql, transformation | 5 | 133 | 1 | 210 | +77 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 8 | 107 | 2 | 182 | +75 |
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 6 | 128 | 2 | 189 | +61 |
| Next.js | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 13 | 84 | 4 | 138 | +54 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electron | Technology | Frontend | frontend, desktop, javascript, cross-platform | 5 | 134 | 8 | 94 | -40 |
| Big Data | Technology | Data Engineering | data-engineering, distributed, processing, data | 5 | 131 | 7 | 97 | -34 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 6 | 127 | 8 | 95 | -32 |
| .NET Core | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 7 | 108 | 11 | 77 | -31 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 7 | 115 | 10 | 86 | -29 |
| TensorFlow | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, google | 7 | 116 | 9 | 90 | -26 |
| Junior | Work Attribute | Seniority | junior, seniority, role, experience-level | 14 | 81 | 18 | 56 | -25 |
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 14 | 82 | 18 | 57 | -25 |
| Jenkins | Technology | Tooling | ci, devops, developer-tooling, ci-cd | 9 | 101 | 12 | 76 | -25 |
| Bash | Technology | Language | language, scripting, shell, systems | 5 | 130 | 6 | 105 | -25 |
Target month: March 2021
Target postings: 904
Threads analyzed: 119