The final proof that Github stars are a useless metric
I have a friend who's fond of saying, "GitHub stars are great for measuring the number of GitHub stars a project has."
OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
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Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#32I don't believe the activity on this repo is legitimate by any means.
They probably used a claw to increase the ranking.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#33And I still would not touch it even with my mother in law's 100 foot stick
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#34The final proof that Github stars are a useless metric
they just need better captchas.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#35My React website can't star React on GitHub.
__ but everyone knows about facebook though __
React popularity is also a phenomenon closely tied to popularity of the fb
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#36What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.
There is a thread from February with more credible use cases from real users. As someone said, it does what everyone expected Siri to do by now.
Which one? None of those that came up when I searched were really containing a lot of real uses. Both top threads[0][1] don't really contain much of substance.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838946 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147183
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#37Totally grassroot
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#38I don't believe the activity on this repo is legitimate by any means.
The whole repo must be absolutely swarming with agents, just look at the sheer rate of issues and pull requests. There was 6 new PRs in the last 10 minutes at the time of writing. It's not much of a stretch to assume the stars are also inorganic.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#39in what sense is this software not a virus?