Generated locally from 121 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 May 2021 and analyzed 845 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 877 to 845 (-3.6%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 500 to 845 (69.0%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 608 mentions (71.95% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Webpack (+366 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: Robotics (-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-20210501-go.js and summary-20210501-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 | 1 | 0 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | +2 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 3 | 4 | +1 | 3 | 0 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 4 | 3 | -1 | 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 | 6 | 0 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | -5 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 8 | 9 | +1 | 9 | +1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 9 | 8 | -1 | 8 | -1 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 10 | 14 | +4 | 11 | +1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 11 | 11 | 0 | 16 | +5 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 12 | 10 | -2 | 12 | 0 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 13 | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 14 | 15 | +1 | 17 | +3 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 15 | 19 | +4 | 29 | +14 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 16 | 17 | +1 | 15 | -1 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 17 | 12 | -5 | 10 | -7 |
| JavaScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, web | 18 | 22 | +4 | 14 | -4 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 19 | 20 | +1 | 25 | +6 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 20 | 16 | -4 | 19 | -1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Webpack | Technology | Frontend | frontend, build, javascript, build-tool | 5 | 134 | 0 | 500 | +366 |
| Tailwind | Technology | Frontend | frontend, css, web, framework | 5 | 133 | 0 | 470 | +337 |
| RDS | Technology | Database | database, sql, cloud, aws | 6 | 117 | 0 | 443 | +326 |
| NextJS | Technology | Frontend | frontend, backend, web, javascript | 5 | 129 | 0 | 402 | +273 |
| WebGL | Technology | Frontend | graphics, frontend, web, rendering | 11 | 90 | 1 | 235 | +145 |
| Git | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, vcs, tooling | 17 | 68 | 1 | 190 | +122 |
| S3 | Technology | Storage | cloud, storage, object-storage, aws | 9 | 96 | 1 | 215 | +119 |
| Web Services | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, integration | 6 | 121 | 1 | 232 | +111 |
| Observability | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, devops | 8 | 102 | 1 | 207 | +105 |
| IaC | Technology | Infrastructure | iac, infrastructure, devops, infrastructure-as-code | 10 | 92 | 1 | 194 | +102 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 6 | 118 | 8 | 78 | -40 |
| Spring | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, java, jvm | 6 | 120 | 8 | 80 | -40 |
| TensorFlow | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, google | 8 | 104 | 11 | 67 | -37 |
| Bash | Technology | Language | language, scripting, shell, systems | 6 | 112 | 7 | 81 | -31 |
| .NET Core | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, microsoft | 5 | 122 | 5 | 92 | -30 |
| Ansible | Technology | Infrastructure | infrastructure, automation, devops, configuration | 12 | 83 | 12 | 56 | -27 |
| Deep Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, neural-networks | 12 | 85 | 12 | 58 | -27 |
| Scala | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, data-engineering | 20 | 62 | 21 | 36 | -26 |
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 15 | 78 | 13 | 52 | -26 |
| passion | Work Attribute | Soft Skill | soft-skill, work-attribute, attribute, culture | 17 | 70 | 15 | 45 | -25 |
Target month: May 2021
Target postings: 845
Threads analyzed: 121