Generated locally from 169 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 2025 and analyzed 304 comments in the target thread.
Compared with the previous hiring thread, posting volume changed from 311 to 304 (-2.3%).
Compared with the same month one year earlier, posting volume changed from 398 to 304 (-23.6%).
Top term this month: Remote at rank 1 with 169 mentions (55.59% of postings).
Strongest year-over-year gainer in this run: Spark (+152 rank positions).
Largest year-over-year drop in this run: C (-36 rank positions).
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Artifacts for this run: data-20250501-go.js and summary-20250501-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 | 4 | +2 |
| Senior | Work Attribute | Seniority | senior, seniority, role, experience-level | 3 | 4 | +1 | 2 | -1 |
| Full Stack | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, backend, work-area, fullstack | 4 | 3 | -1 | 3 | -1 |
| Onsite | Work Attribute | Work Mode | onsite, work-mode, role, location | 5 | 6 | +1 | 5 | 0 |
| Back End | Work Attribute | Work Area | backend, work-area, server-side, architecture | 6 | 5 | -1 | 6 | 0 |
| TypeScript | Technology | Language | language, frontend, backend, javascript | 7 | 11 | +4 | 9 | +2 |
| React | Technology | Frontend | frontend, web, javascript, framework | 8 | 7 | -1 | 7 | -1 |
| Python | Technology | Language | language, backend, ml, data | 9 | 9 | 0 | 8 | -1 |
| Front End | Work Attribute | Work Area | frontend, work-area, ui, client-side | 10 | 8 | -2 | 10 | 0 |
| Hybrid | Work Attribute | Work Mode | hybrid, work-mode, infrastructure, cloud | 11 | 10 | -1 | 11 | 0 |
| Machine Learning | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, data-science, algorithms | 12 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 |
| AWS | Technology | Cloud | cloud, cloud-provider, infrastructure, amazon | 13 | 14 | +1 | 13 | 0 |
| PostgreSQL | Technology | Database | database, sql, storage, backend | 14 | 13 | -1 | 16 | +2 |
| Go | Technology | Language | language, backend, systems, cloud | 15 | 19 | +4 | 17 | +2 |
| Staff | Work Attribute | Seniority | staff, seniority, role, experience-level | 16 | 17 | +1 | 15 | -1 |
| Cloud | Technology | Cloud | cloud, infrastructure, hosting | 17 | 15 | -2 | 14 | -3 |
| Rust | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 18 | 20 | +2 | 23 | +5 |
| Large Language Model | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, llm, generative-ai, nlp | 19 | 16 | -3 | 18 | -1 |
| Security | Technology | Security | security, infosec, cybersecurity | 20 | 23 | +3 | 19 | -1 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spark | Technology | Processing | batch-processing, stream-processing, distributed, data-engineering | 6 | 63 | 1 | 215 | +152 |
| DataDog | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, cloud | 5 | 69 | 1 | 167 | +98 |
| FastAPI | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, python, api | 12 | 36 | 2 | 125 | +89 |
| REST | Technology | Backend | backend, api, web, architecture | 8 | 53 | 2 | 139 | +86 |
| web3 | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 5 | 76 | 2 | 147 | +71 |
| Robotics | Technology | Processing | robotics, hardware, processing, ai | 5 | 74 | 2 | 140 | +66 |
| AI Agents | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, agents, llm, automation | 15 | 30 | 3 | 92 | +62 |
| Figma | Technology | Tooling | design, tooling, frontend, ui | 5 | 71 | 2 | 127 | +56 |
| PyTorch | Technology | AI / Machine Learning | ai, ml, deep-learning, python | 8 | 52 | 3 | 106 | +54 |
| Observability | Technology | SRE | sre, observability, monitoring, devops | 10 | 40 | 4 | 86 | +46 |
| Tech | Kind | Family | Tags | Mentions | Rank | Last Year Mentions | Last Year Rank | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, low-level | 5 | 67 | 15 | 31 | -36 |
| Fintech | Domain | Industry | industry, finance, domain, technology | 5 | 72 | 10 | 44 | -28 |
| SDK | Technology | Tooling | developer-tooling, api, integration, tooling | 5 | 75 | 10 | 48 | -27 |
| Blockchain | Technology | Distributed Systems | distributed, crypto, web3, blockchain | 5 | 66 | 10 | 43 | -23 |
| Ruby | Technology | Language | language, backend, web, scripting | 9 | 46 | 16 | 30 | -16 |
| SRE | Work Attribute | Work Area | sre, observability, infrastructure, work-area | 9 | 48 | 15 | 33 | -15 |
| Principal | Work Attribute | Seniority | principal, seniority, role, experience-level | 6 | 61 | 10 | 47 | -14 |
| Rails | Technology | Backend | backend, framework, ruby, web | 9 | 45 | 15 | 32 | -13 |
| C++ | Technology | Language | language, systems, backend, performance | 8 | 49 | 12 | 37 | -12 |
| DevOps | Work Attribute | Work Area | devops, infrastructure, work-area, culture | 14 | 32 | 23 | 21 | -11 |
Target month: May 2025
Target postings: 304
Threads analyzed: 169