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github-explorer		crux-top-lists
	Project
13	Mentions	6
129	Stars	710
2.3%	Growth	-
4.3	Activity	6.2
3 months ago	Latest Commit	18 days ago
HTML	Language	Python
-	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

github-explorer

Posts with mentions or reviews of github-explorer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-29.

Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024

clickhouse has pretty good github_events dataset on their playground that folks can use to do some research - some info on the dataset https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/
Example of what user JiaT75 did so far:
https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUICogRlJPT...
pull requests mentioning xz, 5.6 without downgrade, cve being mentioned in the last 60 days:
https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIGNyZWF0Z...
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About GitHub (But Were Afraid to Ask)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2024

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2023

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2023
Stargazers intersections for most popular GitHub projects in Venn diagrams
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023

It shouldn’t be hard to implement: https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/#how-to-download-the-data
GitHub Profile Achievements
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2023
Getting 10TB of GitHub Logs and Extracting Details of All Users and Repositories
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jun 2023

The article leaves a bitter taste of unnecessary complexity. Data engineering should not be hard.
For example, you can load the GitHub Archive to ClickHouse, and it will be accessible with interactive real-time queries: https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/
See also https://til.simonwillison.net/clickhouse/github-explorer
Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2023

I recommend checking https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/
It explains the full pipeline - how to download, collect, and analyze this sort of data.
Everything you always wanted to know about GitHub (but were afraid to ask)
1 project | /r/u_waynerad | 22 Jan 2023
Cached Chrome Top Million Websites
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Dec 2022

Yes, it's continuously updated.
The source code is here: https://github.com/ClickHouse/github-explorer
This shell scripts updates it: https://github.com/ClickHouse/github-explorer/blob/main/upda...

crux-top-lists

Posts with mentions or reviews of crux-top-lists. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-31.