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Playing amateur detective here, but "A huge thank you to the community!" blurb was added to the repo on March 20th [0], just before the hockey stick inflection
by graypegg 5mo ago
Playing amateur detective here, but "A huge thank you to the community!" blurb was added to the repo on March 20th [0], just before the hockey stick inflection point on the 21st where they got exactly 1800 more stars... then exactly 1000 more the next day, 1000 more after that, then 900... etc. [1] The only point where we see the first sig digit be NOT zero is today. Maybe there's some truncation that github does on their end for the API, but it being exactly +1000 a couple days in a row is indicative.
Wow. I thought the github clout market would be a bit more subtle about it.
[0] https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything/commit/9866fccae98f66db9a80e0a28cc0b64d06c68d80 https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything/commit/9866fc...
[1] https://www.star-history.com/lum1104/understand-anything#history https://www.star-history.com/lum1104/understand-anything#his...
- apt-apt-apt-apt 5mo agoNow it'll be, "Author of library with 10K stars on github, front page on HN, #1 ProductHunt"
- johnfn 5mo agoAs fun of a theory as this is, star-history.com just seems to round off the numbers at multiples of a hundred - just look at any other repo on the site.
- lum1104 5mo agoYou can check the historical star data here: https://trendshift.io/repositories/23482 https://trendshift.io/repositories/23482 Honestly, I’m the author of the project :)