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Re: Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

Nicely done, but I’m not convinced that “number of stars” should be the only metric. It’s not a bad one, but it naturally eschews a lot of indie stuff.

This is a chronic issue with discovery queues. I like to listen to music during my morning walks, and want to have the chance to hear new, not-yet-popular songs. I may not like a lot of them, but I want the chance to decide for myself.

Re: Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos

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Post by nasso_dev »

Judging by the comments: was this project built by an LLM, posted here by an LLM, the replies to comments written by an LLM?

Is there even a human at any step or is this an agent running in the background with "go to HN front page" as its ultimate goal?

Re: Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos

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Post by Arch-TK »

nasso_dev wrote: post #12

Judging by the comments: was this project built by an LLM, posted here by an LLM, the replies to comments written by an LLM? Is there even a human at any step or is this an agent running in the background with "go to HN front page" as its ultimate goal?

Even if an LLM came up with the idea for using an LLM to come up with project ideas, then implementing those project ideas, then posting those projects on HN and representing the project on HN. Someone set up the first LLM. So there's always a human...

Re: Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos

#15

Post by VoidWhisperer »

This is decidedly not a 'new' repo but shows up there anyways: https://github.com/mdn/mdn/

Also, design sidenote: the purple font that the navigation bar takes when an option is highlighted makes it next to impossible to read against the dark gray background

Re: Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos

#16

Post by GreenWatermelon »

magnio wrote: post #10
zxcholmes wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're absolutely right about the AI-generated look. I'm not a UI designer, so I relied too heavily on AI for the frontend. I should probably study designs from other websites and create something more custom instead. Thanks for the feedback!

> You're absolutely right Perfect satire. Thank you.

I'm beginning to doubt that it's actually satire...

Re: Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos

#19

Post by CaptainOfCoit »

FredrikMeyer wrote: post #13

One of the projects listed for me was a Clojure project that hasn't been updated for 3 years. https://github.com/stuartsierra/component

I think that's because Component is done/finished. I still use it from time to time (and have projects running in production with it right now), can't think of a single issue to fix or feature to add, at least from my perspective, it pretty much does what it should without issues.

Re: Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos

#20

Post by GreenWatermelon »

nasso_dev wrote: post #12

Judging by the comments: was this project built by an LLM, posted here by an LLM, the replies to comments written by an LLM? Is there even a human at any step or is this an agent running in the background with "go to HN front page" as its ultimate goal?

And it seems there are a bunch of broken stuff that anyone with a lick of CSS skills would notice and fix right away. For example, the first 4 elements of each card (number, title, external link icon, and tag) seem like they should've been in on the same line. The pill-like "Hot" doesn't normally take a whole line by itself...

This os trivially fixed by wrapping them in a flex container. In tailwind that would take 2 seconds.

So we have:

- OP didn't even look at this project before posting it, or...

- they looked and didn't find anything wrong (no eye for quality), or....

- they looked, saw it looked off, but didn't bother to fix it, either due to lack of necessary skill to do that or maybe they didn't want to invoke the agent a second time???

I concur with your conclusion that it seems no human was involved in any step.

Also, evidently, thing doesn't even work given it shows years-old repos that didn't actually get any traction recently. It's AI slop in product form

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