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Repo's been up for a week and already it has 14k stars. Oh look, they are gaining stars at a rate of pretty much exactly 1400 per day: https://www.star-history

Repo's been up for a week and already it has 14k stars. Oh look, they are gaining stars at a rate of pretty much exactly 1400 per day: https://www.star-history.com/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&type=date&legend=top-left https://www.star-history.com/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&ty... Yeah, nothing shady here at all.

bastac 6mo ago
Do people really buy stars for github? Would explain some of these crazy growths
- thrance 6mo ago
  Apparently so. Posted 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621
  - sumeno 6mo ago
    Makes me wonder if there is a secret HN upvote economy too. Edit: yep, quick search turned up a site to buy upvotes. All these vibe coded slop projects getting to the front page make sense now
    - pojzon 6mo ago
      When there is a buyer, sellers will show up. This only exposes human nature.
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- walthamstow 6mo ago
  Don't underestimate stars given by claws without direct instruction from humans. Not bought or sold, but not real either.
- jedimastert 6mo ago
  Once stars started becoming a marketable metric, it's pretty much inevitable that they would be purchasable. Same as any other bot review market I suppose
gavmor 6mo ago
Wow, rounded exactly to the hundreds? Or is that an artifact of star-history's data-collection?
- AntonyGarand 6mo ago
  Seems like this is an artifact / deliberate smoothing: Other tracker sites have unrounded data, and the github API does show a consistent growth instead of bursts at rounded intervals. https://www.startrail.dev/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&legend=below https://www.startrail.dev/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&legen... The growth remains very artificial, a steady line instead of the real jitter than real stars would have.