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tloganyesterday at 9:03 PM6 repliesview on HN

The actual number is that 98% have less than 2 stars (0 or 1). About 90.25% has zero stars.


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driftnodetoday at 6:15 AM

So Claude repos are statistically more likely to have stars than the average GitHub repo. Not the conclusion the headline was going for.

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GorbachevyChasetoday at 4:54 AM

Sounds like Claude commits are, on average, going into higher visibility repositories than humans… maybe the author would like to reconsider their approach?

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ZeWakayesterday at 10:13 PM

I think this is useful in answering the grandparent comment's question:

stars : uniq(k)

1 : 14946505

10 : 1196622

100 : 213026

1000 : 28944

10000 : 1847

100000 : 20

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jwpapiyesterday at 11:40 PM

You should check recent commits, because obviously there are a lot of forked 0 star repos.

wetoastfoodyesterday at 9:16 PM

How do you know that?

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Bratmonyesterday at 10:07 PM

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