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Re: Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library

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Post by ZeWaka »

sschueller wrote: post #17
scandinavian wrote: post #10

5 day old repo, 2000 stars on GitHub, 400 total weekly downloads on npm. Frontpage of hacker news with a bunch of weird comments. Moderation has been lacking recently.

Sad that HN is now also getting boted by LLMs. People are just shameless. HN is one of the few places left where you can post / self promote something you have made only for people to take advantage of it.

The strangest part is the weird commenting accounts have pretty old account ages.

Re: Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library

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Post by ssiddharth »

scandinavian wrote: post #10

5 day old repo, 2000 stars on GitHub, 400 total weekly downloads on npm. Frontpage of hacker news with a bunch of weird comments. Moderation has been lacking recently.

The author is the CTO of Zerodha, India’s largest online brokerage. Not that it matters, just an observation.

Re: Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library

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Post by smarx007 »

ssiddharth wrote: post #23
scandinavian wrote: post #10

5 day old repo, 2000 stars on GitHub, 400 total weekly downloads on npm. Frontpage of hacker news with a bunch of weird comments. Moderation has been lacking recently.

The author is the CTO of Zerodha, India’s largest online brokerage. Not that it matters, just an observation.

I thought they also OSSed a pretty solid https://github.com/frappe/helpdesk helpdesk but that was from Frappe, not Zerodha.

Re: Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library

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Post by quadrifoliate »

ZeWaka wrote: post #21
sschueller wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sad that HN is now also getting boted by LLMs. People are just shameless. HN is one of the few places left where you can post / self promote something you have made only for people to take advantage of it.

The strangest part is the weird commenting accounts have pretty old account ages.

I don't know if you're demonstrating reductio ad absurdum, but maybe that's because they are genuine? As people in the thread have pointed out, the author as well as their company is pretty well-known in software circles. They have had multiple projects discussed on HN in the past[1]. 2000 stars is not a lot given that [2].

I fail to understand why a ton of breathless blog posts about the process of AI-assisted coding are more interesting to HNers than some of the actual code (potentially, not claiming anything about it) written.

Maybe you or the GP could actually say what you think are "weird comments" and why you think this is being "boted"?

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[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] Why are people obsessed with star counts? I at least only star things to bookmark them, not vouch for them in any way. It does not seem unreasonable to me that 5 times as many people bookmarked the repo in the early days than are using it on npm. Also, npm is not necessary, the author shows at least 2 other ways to use it (direct download, link to GitHub pages) which will not show up in npm stats.

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