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I hired many many people and never once I cared about GitHub stars. Not even sure what signal it suppose to be.

• abtinf 10mo ago
  Yes, developer/platform advocacy/evangelism.
• minimaxir 10mo ago
  It's a quick signal that the developer is capable of writing and maintaining code that can be used by many others.
  • stronglikedan 10mo ago
    Or that they're just a person who knows how to game stars. As Goodfart says, "When a measure becomes a target, it gets gamed beyond usefulness."
    • minimaxir 10mo ago
      Although commits can be gamed on GitHub, stars are significantly harder to game as they require human accounts to be doing so. You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars.
      • skylurk 10mo ago
        I would not be surprised if you can buy quite a lot of them for cheap.
      • nurettin 10mo ago
        https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140 > This package costed me 8.19 Euros for 100 stars which is €0.08/star. Shoot for the stars, I guess.
      • latexr 10mo ago
        > You could game a few stars with sockpuppet accounts, but it's infeasible to game 100+ stars. It’s not only feasible, it’s trivial. https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-sta...