Generated locally from 172 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 August 2025 and analyzed 310 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 335 to 310 (-7.5%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 326 to 310 (-4.9%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 153 mentions (49.35% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: HPC (+287 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: iOS (-28 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-20250801-go.js and summary-20250801-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 |
| AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, llm | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | +1 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 5 | 7 | +2 | 9 | +4 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 7 | 5 | -2 | 5 | -2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 10 | +2 | 8 | 0 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 9 | 8 | -1 | 10 | +1 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 10 | 9 | -1 | 7 | -3 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 11 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 12 | 12 | 0 | 14 | +2 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 13 | 15 | +2 | 12 | -1 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 14 | 17 | +3 | 15 | +1 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 15 | 14 | -1 | 13 | -2 |
| Large Language Model | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, generative-ai, nlp | 16 | 13 | -3 | 18 | +2 |
| Node.js | Technology | Backend | backend, javascript, runtime, v8 | 17 | 22 | +5 | 21 | +4 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 18 | 25 | +7 | 16 | -2 |
| Open Source | Work Attribute | Work Attribute | open-source, community, licensing | 19 | 18 | -1 | 17 | -2 |
| GitHub | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, version-control, ci, vcs | 20 | 19 | -1 | 20 | 0 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HPC | Technology | Processing | processing, distributed, performance, infrastructure | 5 | 65 | 0 | 352 | +287 |
| Agentic AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, agents, llm, automation | 6 | 55 | 0 | 233 | +178 |
| NestJS | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, javascript, node | 5 | 68 | 1 | 188 | +120 |
| FastAPI | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, api | 7 | 52 | 2 | 121 | +69 |
| AI Agents | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, agents, llm, automation | 23 | 21 | 4 | 75 | +54 |
| RAG | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, rag, search | 8 | 49 | 4 | 86 | +37 |
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 11 | 34 | 5 | 69 | +35 |
| MongoDB | Technology | Database | database, nosql, document, storage | 5 | 67 | 3 | 99 | +32 |
| K8s | Technology | Infrastructure | kubernetes, container, infrastructure, distributed | 9 | 42 | 5 | 71 | +29 |
| Fintech | Domain | Industry | industry, finance, domain, technology | 6 | 58 | 4 | 82 | +24 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iOS | Technology | Mobile | mobile, ios, swift, os | 5 | 66 | 12 | 38 | -28 |
| Generative AI | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, generative-ai, generative | 6 | 59 | 13 | 33 | -26 |
| Java | Technology | Language | language, backend, jvm, enterprise | 8 | 46 | 15 | 29 | -17 |
| Android | Technology | Mobile | mobile, android, kotlin, java | 6 | 56 | 10 | 41 | -15 |
| GraphQL | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, query-language | 6 | 62 | 9 | 47 | -15 |
| Kafka | Technology | Data Engineering | streaming, messaging, distributed, backend | 6 | 63 | 8 | 51 | -12 |
| Redis | Technology | Database | database, cache, storage, backend | 8 | 50 | 12 | 39 | -11 |
| SRE | Work Attribute | Work Area | sre, observability, infrastructure, work-area | 7 | 54 | 10 | 45 | -9 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 10 | 38 | 14 | 30 | -8 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 20 | 25 | 29 | 19 | -6 |
Target month: August 2025
Target postings: 310
Threads analyzed: 172