Ask HN: Is GitHub's #1 repo fake? build-your-own-x 491K stars
GitHub's #1 most starred repo is build-your-own-x [1] with 491K stars. That's twice the starts of React or Linux or Python. Yet, Yet I almost never hear about it on HN or anywhere else. Even the few HN posts about it are very suspicious. A post with 800 points usually has over 400 comments that go very deep, but now look at the build-your-own-x's hn submission [2]. It has 867 points, 64 comments, barely a discussion.
Btw, it's S2022 Backed by YC.
[1] https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/Top-100-stars.md
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430321 i could not believe GitHub will allow it and they would penaltize if it was fake.
There are many additional repos with amount of start much more than Linux/Python, you can see the list here: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking#most-stars It's all about the users engagment This is super interesting. Thanks for the read this morning. Broader discussion here: https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigatio...