Ask HN: Has GitHub stars become a gamed metric?

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  • hurl

    Hurl, run and test HTTP requests with plain text.

    • May I ask why you find it fishy? I’m one of the maintainer of an Open source project with ~2000 stars and 50 issues [1] (some bugs, some questions and a lot of enhancement proposal). I don’t think there is anything strange in these kinds of numbers.

    [1] https://github.com/Orange-OpenSource/hurl

  • stable-diffusion-webui

    Stable Diffusion web UI

    • This repo SD AUTOMATIC111 (https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/) is not official/ community run, has a few weeks of history, and has 14k which I think are legit.

    Lots of user on github maybe? Network effects, more feed recommendations, etc

    Github is becoming FB

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