Every time something like this gets posted and even so much as mentions that they look at your GitHub, people come out of the woodwork with their fists clenched

Every time something like this gets posted and even so much as mentions that they look at your GitHub, people come out of the woodwork with their fists clenched an impotent rage. In the time that I've worked as a interviewer for some of the companies that I was employed at, if somebody includes a good hub link I always make sure to check it out. I'm not looking for necessarily best practices or the exact way that you code, but sometimes people put their personal projects on there which to me shows passion for software development, as well as the exploration of new ideas. So sure, if your GitHub is just filled with half finished tutorials and unintentionally miss clicked forks, any interviewer worth their salt is going to notice this and then discard it as a signal. If 90% of the people on hacker news had their way, We would discount any possible means of evaluation and just hire somebody by rolling a D20.