Github-Ranking

> I think its fascinating just how much of a gap there is between what's being claimed, and the verifiable observable data of the open source world. According to this list of top Github repos by stars[1], of the top 10, nine of them are informational and one is OpenClaw, which certainly has plenty of AI generated code. The next 10 include react which has a CLAUDE.md and a .claude, and lots of landed PRs that look like AI. And linux, which, we all read Linus' stance. He sees the value. And superpowers, ECC, and hermes-agent. All of which are AI stuff. I think it would be reasonable to ask which major open source projects aren't using AI assistance? > Major open source projects are by and large starting to ban LLMs now, because the contributions made by LLM users have been universally terrible and unhelpful. That is not why. Or at least not

GitHub's #1 most starred repo is build-your-own-x [1] with 491K stars. That's twice the starts of React or Linux or Python. Yet, Yet I almost never hear about it on HN or anywhere else. Even the few HN posts about it are very suspicious. A post with 800 points usually has over 400 comments that go very deep, but now look at the build-your-own-x's hn submission [2]. It has 867 points, 64 comments, barely a discussion. Btw, it's S2022 Backed by YC. [1] https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/Top-100-stars.md [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21430321

The openclaw/openclaw repo now has more stars than torvalds/linux, moving to #14 on EvanLi's Top 100 list with 219k: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... CodeCrafters is #1 with 468k.

I have literally never looked at github stars as a measure of quality or had it affect my decision. I have looked at git logs, websites, issues, etc. But I would be genuinely worried if someone used github stars as an indication. So many honestly stupid projects have a lot of stars, and stellar ones have next to none. https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... proof here. The top are taken by chinese educational repos. Elastic Search and Spring Boot are the only projects actually used by anyone in the top 10. But why would I trust the stars for spring boot over the fact its used in every java shop on the planet?

147k stars and currently the 38th most starred repo on all of GitHub [0, 1]. Seems odd that a project has so many stars yet is largely unfamiliar to much of HN (corrections appreciated). I asked an LLM if there's ways to detect suspicious starring activity (e.g. if stars were purchased). It suggested checking the project's star history [2] (doesn't appear suspicious). It also suggested the stars to issues ratio. n8n has 147k:6k (about 25:1) compared to, say, rails with 57k stars and 18k issues (about 3:1). I haven't looked deeply into n8n (is it 'no-code' for building agents?). I just see hype and am default skeptical. [0] https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n [1] https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... [2] https://www.star-history.com/#n8n-io/n8n&Date

When Devin launched ~1 year ago, the first thing I did was google "Is Devin open source?" When I saw it wasn't I immediately started working on OpenHands (fka OpenDevin) At this point, it's very clear our jobs are changing. It's super important to me that we, the engineers, have a say in how that change happens. What's exciting is that the community seems to agree. We're now one of the top 50 python projects of all time [1], and a huge number of codegen and AI researchers have been contributing to help make our agent the top performer on SWE-bench Verified [2] We've still got a lot of work ahead of us, but I'm very excited about what the future of software development looks like. [1] https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... [2] https://www.swebench.com/

Node: https://github.com/nodejs/node React: https://github.com/facebook/react Vimium: https://github.com/philc/vimium If you want more, here is probably a good place to start: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/...

That's a shame. I admit that I hardly ever look at this page but when I do rediscover it every few months I always stumble into a load of great projects. I was just looking at the list and saw this - https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking - anyone missing the rending feature might like that

Here's a few other tools that are written in Perl, sorted by GitHub popularity: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/... Actually, that repo has lists like this for most languages: https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking