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Show HN: GitHub Trending Repos

203 points by amrrs 9y ago

ryanianian 9y ago
Seems kinda cool - works by updating a GH issue per language and you subscribe to updates on the issue. But seems that the issues have been locked and not updated since November without explanation as to why. Hence cool idea but not actually what it says on the tin for the moment. [edit]: isn't true the GH UI just wasn't rendering the most recent updates for me. Viewing the issue pages themselves not so useful but subscribing to the issue is really the intended usage anyhow.
- deleted 9y ago
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- r3bl 9y ago
  It might be that you've stumbled upon some issue that didn't get updated? I've checked a few weekly issues and they all seem to be regularly updated. The comments seem to be locked to avoid anyone posting one in order to avoid anyone spamming everyone who subscribed.
- vitalets 9y ago
  > But seems that the issues have been locked and not updated since November without explanation as to why. GitHub shows issue creation date, not last update.
romanovcode 9y ago
Doesn't GitHub provides exact this functionality by itself?
- vitalets 9y ago
  Unfortunately not. GitHub official newsletter only contains trending repositories across all programming languages. So you can't focus on particular language.
trextrex 9y ago
Couldn't this be done a lot more simply with a mailing list or RSS feed? Using GitHub issues seems a bit convoluted, although I'm guessing it's probably because it's easier to set up and free to use. It seems like somebody should build a service which makes use cases like this 0 config.
- kylell 9y ago
  the never satisfied freeloaders
  - hueving 9y ago
    An observation of how much these closed systems are a regression from systems we had 10 years ago.
    - yzmtf2008 9y ago
      Protocol ossification is also a real thing: we’re stuck in all the protocols developed two decades ago. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
      - ryandrake 9y ago
        Highly subjective. What some would call ossified, others might call “mature,” “reliable,” or “battle tested.” Sometimes bits don’t rot—they just go out of fashion.
  - blocked_again 9y ago
    The maker posted the repo to get constructive criticism. They could have posted it on Producthunt or Facebook if they only wanted some appluase.
    - Kiro 9y ago
      How do you know?
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symbolepro 9y ago
Why is this needed when I can go on gihub.com and check trending repos? I see no point in this.
- rynop 9y ago
  https://github.com/trending https://github.com/trending does but if you look at his repo he says "None of alternatives can send notifications per programming language. That's why I've created this project."
mandliya 9y ago
I use changelog nightly for similar purpose. It shows you hottest and most starred repos within the day. http://nightly.changelog.com/2018/02/22/ http://nightly.changelog.com/2018/02/22/
simonw 9y ago
Using GitHub issues to power notifications in this way is absolutely inspired! You get single-sign-in for anyone with a GitHub account. You get both email AND push-based notifications without needing to run ANY of the infrastructure yourself. Your scrapers get to run in their own time and publish via a very well-documented and easy to use API. I'm totally sticking this idea in my back-pocket. It's brilliant.
- simonw 9y ago
  Hah, it's even clever-er than I thought: the entire implementation is 220 lines of Node.js https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/blob/maste... And everything runs in a free Circle CI instance on a daily and weekly basis: https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/blob/maste... So Vitaliy runs the entire thing at no cost to himself, and on infrastructure he doesn't need to maintain. It's the perfect setup for a side-project like this.
- AceJohnny2 9y ago
  I'm imagining the Github infrastructure folks cringing at this. The second-order effects of people reusing the infrastructure for a different purpose than initially intended. Like how they caved and provided github.io because people were using Raw (or some other feature of the repos) as a ad-hoc CDN anyhow. In fact, I'm curious how much of their traffic is traditional git/repo view and how much is any of these "second-order" services.
  - simonw 9y ago
    I bet they're fine with it. They have invested a great deal of engineering effort in building a notification system that scales - there are plenty of legitimate uses for that system that dwarf this clever hack in terms of traffic (issues with hundreds or even thousands of subscribers). If I were them I would be delighted at someone using my work in an unexpected and creative way like this - having users surprise you like this (provided it's not for abuse or spam) is one of the joys of software design. You could figure out the actual impact by counting the number of individual subscribers to all of the issues in this repo. My guess it's not even a hundred yet.
JepZ 9y ago
I think its a nice idea, especially regarding signal to noise. I mean, for sure I could watch https://github.com/trending https://github.com/trending but in fact I don't care about a lot of languages which might be essential for others (e.g. C#, C++). Yes, RSS feeds and mailing lists would be nice too, but in the end I don't care much how I receive the information as long as I can receive it automatically somehow. So far I have seen a lot of projects I know already, but I will try it for a few weeks and see if there will be any new treasures :-)
coldcode 9y ago
Why am I only seeing changes for Swift from November?
- vitalets 9y ago
  It seems you've looked at the issue open date. The updates to Swift are coming daily: https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/issues/36#issuecomment-368174053 https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/issues/36#...
bobbyi_settv 9y ago
I picked one Python repo at random to start and got an empty repo that says "Removed according to regulations": https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks According to google, it is something "widely used in mainland China to circumvent Internet censorship". Does Github not allow this type of project, or are they talking about a different form of "regulations"?
- jyr0s 9y ago
  See master branch: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master
  - ateesdalejr 9y ago
    Wait... Did they hide the master branch from view on purpose?
Kagerjay 9y ago
I have my own way of tracking trending repos. I use this url: https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=monthly https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=monthly Then I use tabsnooze, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebiamhaleloakpcgmpnenggpjbcbm?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebia... to go to that page once a month works for me
pookeh 9y ago
Github really should hire this guy and incorporate this as a feature.
vitalets 9y ago
Thanks for posting this and for the comments! Before creating this repo I've researched existing solutions and described the comparison here: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/five-ways-of-tracking-trends-on-github-63940fca63b https://medium.freecodecamp.org/five-ways-of-tracking-trends...
tutfbhuf 9y ago
Not long ago i made a small website for that: https://madnight.github.io/grendy/ https://madnight.github.io/grendy/ By the way, it's written in purescript and haskell : )

203 points by amrrs 9y ago

Seems kinda cool - works by updating a GH issue per language and you subscribe to updates on the issue. But seems that the issues have been locked and not updated since November without explanation as to why. Hence cool idea but not actually what it says on the tin for the moment. [edit]: isn't true the GH UI just wasn't rendering the most recent updates for me. Viewing the issue pages themselves not so useful but subscribing to the issue is really the intended usage anyhow.

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r3bl 9y ago
It might be that you've stumbled upon some issue that didn't get updated? I've checked a few weekly issues and they all seem to be regularly updated. The comments seem to be locked to avoid anyone posting one in order to avoid anyone spamming everyone who subscribed.
vitalets 9y ago
> But seems that the issues have been locked and not updated since November without explanation as to why. GitHub shows issue creation date, not last update.

romanovcode 9y ago

Doesn't GitHub provides exact this functionality by itself?

vitalets 9y ago
Unfortunately not. GitHub official newsletter only contains trending repositories across all programming languages. So you can't focus on particular language.

trextrex 9y ago

Couldn't this be done a lot more simply with a mailing list or RSS feed? Using GitHub issues seems a bit convoluted, although I'm guessing it's probably because it's easier to set up and free to use. It seems like somebody should build a service which makes use cases like this 0 config.

kylell 9y ago
the never satisfied freeloaders
- hueving 9y ago
  An observation of how much these closed systems are a regression from systems we had 10 years ago.
  - yzmtf2008 9y ago
    Protocol ossification is also a real thing: we’re stuck in all the protocols developed two decades ago. https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
    - ryandrake 9y ago
      Highly subjective. What some would call ossified, others might call “mature,” “reliable,” or “battle tested.” Sometimes bits don’t rot—they just go out of fashion.
- blocked_again 9y ago
  The maker posted the repo to get constructive criticism. They could have posted it on Producthunt or Facebook if they only wanted some appluase.
  - Kiro 9y ago
    How do you know?

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symbolepro 9y ago

Why is this needed when I can go on gihub.com and check trending repos? I see no point in this.

rynop 9y ago
https://github.com/trending https://github.com/trending does but if you look at his repo he says "None of alternatives can send notifications per programming language. That's why I've created this project."

mandliya 9y ago

I use changelog nightly for similar purpose. It shows you hottest and most starred repos within the day. http://nightly.changelog.com/2018/02/22/ http://nightly.changelog.com/2018/02/22/

simonw 9y ago

Using GitHub issues to power notifications in this way is absolutely inspired! You get single-sign-in for anyone with a GitHub account. You get both email AND push-based notifications without needing to run ANY of the infrastructure yourself. Your scrapers get to run in their own time and publish via a very well-documented and easy to use API. I'm totally sticking this idea in my back-pocket. It's brilliant.

simonw 9y ago
Hah, it's even clever-er than I thought: the entire implementation is 220 lines of Node.js https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/blob/master/index.js https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/blob/maste... And everything runs in a free Circle CI instance on a daily and weekly basis: https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/blob/maste... So Vitaliy runs the entire thing at no cost to himself, and on infrastructure he doesn't need to maintain. It's the perfect setup for a side-project like this.
AceJohnny2 9y ago
I'm imagining the Github infrastructure folks cringing at this. The second-order effects of people reusing the infrastructure for a different purpose than initially intended. Like how they caved and provided github.io because people were using Raw (or some other feature of the repos) as a ad-hoc CDN anyhow. In fact, I'm curious how much of their traffic is traditional git/repo view and how much is any of these "second-order" services.
- simonw 9y ago
  I bet they're fine with it. They have invested a great deal of engineering effort in building a notification system that scales - there are plenty of legitimate uses for that system that dwarf this clever hack in terms of traffic (issues with hundreds or even thousands of subscribers). If I were them I would be delighted at someone using my work in an unexpected and creative way like this - having users surprise you like this (provided it's not for abuse or spam) is one of the joys of software design. You could figure out the actual impact by counting the number of individual subscribers to all of the issues in this repo. My guess it's not even a hundred yet.

JepZ 9y ago

I think its a nice idea, especially regarding signal to noise. I mean, for sure I could watch https://github.com/trending https://github.com/trending but in fact I don't care about a lot of languages which might be essential for others (e.g. C#, C++). Yes, RSS feeds and mailing lists would be nice too, but in the end I don't care much how I receive the information as long as I can receive it automatically somehow. So far I have seen a lot of projects I know already, but I will try it for a few weeks and see if there will be any new treasures :-)

coldcode 9y ago

Why am I only seeing changes for Swift from November?

vitalets 9y ago
It seems you've looked at the issue open date. The updates to Swift are coming daily: https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/issues/36#issuecomment-368174053 https://github.com/vitalets/github-trending-repos/issues/36#...

bobbyi_settv 9y ago

I picked one Python repo at random to start and got an empty repo that says "Removed according to regulations": https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks According to google, it is something "widely used in mainland China to circumvent Internet censorship". Does Github not allow this type of project, or are they talking about a different form of "regulations"?

jyr0s 9y ago
See master branch: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks/tree/master
- ateesdalejr 9y ago
  Wait... Did they hide the master branch from view on purpose?

Kagerjay 9y ago

I have my own way of tracking trending repos. I use this url: https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=monthly https://github.com/trending/javascript?since=monthly Then I use tabsnooze, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebiamhaleloakpcgmpnenggpjbcbm?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-snooze/pdiebia... to go to that page once a month works for me

pookeh 9y ago

Github really should hire this guy and incorporate this as a feature.

vitalets 9y ago

Thanks for posting this and for the comments! Before creating this repo I've researched existing solutions and described the comparison here: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/five-ways-of-tracking-trends-on-github-63940fca63b https://medium.freecodecamp.org/five-ways-of-tracking-trends...

tutfbhuf 9y ago

Not long ago i made a small website for that: https://madnight.github.io/grendy/ https://madnight.github.io/grendy/ By the way, it's written in purescript and haskell : )