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OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
- ramon156 7mo agoIs there some hidden thing that stars the repo when you use it? I cannot imagine 200.000 people caring about OpenClaw
- big-chungus4 7mo agoHow do I downvote a comment
- FloatArtifact 7mo agoRegardless of which way you slice it, it is really neet to be able to automate more aspects of our lives than ever before. It's not so much about the framework we use, the fact that we have the endpoints to use them.
- Yanko_11 7mo ago[dead]
- whit537 7mo agoYes, stars are a popularity contest. No open source project has ever become this popular this quickly.
- chromehearts 7mo agoI don't know but this AI wrapper tool will never create something life changing imo.. But that stargraph is ridiculous .. absolutely crazy
- halicarnassus 7mo agoMaybe a bunch of AI agents ganged up on starring it to help a fellow AI out?
- root_axis 7mo agoI don't believe the activity on this repo is legitimate by any means.
- amelius 7mo agoThey probably used a claw to increase the ranking.
- jsheard 7mo agoThe 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.
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- petetnt 7mo agoEvery other minute some bots is creating an issue that a bot is trying to solve via a pull request which is reviewed by multiple bots. Future is now, good luck and have fun.
- jsheard 7mo agoIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a bot stamping LGTM! :sparkles: :rocket: on a pull request - forever.
- OpenWaygate 7mo agoThis repo is a big stitches
- ekianjo 7mo agoBy design, with llm agents and all, surely not
- hansonkd 7mo agoAgents will dominate the internet and open source code in a few years.
- sschueller 7mo agoWhat 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.
- jcgrillo 7mo agoYou give it your etrade login and retire early.
- silversmith 7mo agoI guess we are just boring and/or unimaginative. I don't get that many communications per day to require an abstraction level between me and the messages. The daily automations I need are more efficiently carried out by home assistant / n8n. I'm not in a position where I need automated briefs on every new company started in my area. I genuinely don't see how it could benefit me.
- theshrike79 7mo agon8n can't handle abiguity, unless you program it to. Like if you want bad weather alerts, you need to specifically define every situation of "bad weather" by givin exact weather / wind / rain limits. What happens if it's cold, windy and rainy, but every value is juust 0.1 over the threshold of notifying you? It's still objectively shit weather. Or can n8n go through your emails and check for promo codes or sales you're looking for - in ad mails that are 90% images with text?
- monax 7mo agoHow many of theses are just OpenClaw agents staring the repo ?
- kmaitreys 7mo agoRelevant https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140
- ZiiS 7mo agoMy React website can't star React on GitHub.
- ch4s3 7mo agoNot with that attitude it can't!
- egeozcan 7mo agoNow I have this terrible idea: const openClawInstance = useOpenClaw(config); Did anyone already vibe-code such silliness? If not, I want to give it a try.
- ch4s3 7mo agoI'd love to read about that going super sideways. Bonus points if you run it in a webworker like those crypto miners.
- podgorniy 7mo ago__ but everyone knows about facebook though __ React popularity is also a phenomenon closely tied to popularity of the fb
- xnx 7mo agoIs staring the repo the "hello world" for a new OpenClaw install? #growthhack
- nimbus-hn-test 7mo ago[dead]
- croes 7mo agoThe final proof that Github stars are a useless metric
- japhyr 7mo agoI have a friend who's fond of saying, "GitHub stars are great for measuring the number of GitHub stars a project has."
- SecretDreams 7mo agoWell, they're not wrong!
- amelius 7mo agothey just need better captchas.
- thomasingalls 7mo agoTouch this grass to prove you're not a robot
- silon42 7mo agoThey are now for this project... should be hidden.
- 12ajsh 7mo agoThe ruling party in East Germany always had 99% of the popular vote. Steinberger and his VC club on Twitter were so salty about HN not understanding his grand creation that something needed to be done.
- mannanj 7mo agoDidn't they employ astro-turfing, too
- goodmodule 7mo agoeven more GitHub stars after this post in 3 2 1
- indigodaddy 7mo agoAnd I still would not touch it even with my mother in law's 100 foot stick
- wolvesechoes 7mo agoTotally grassroot
- liveoneggs 7mo agoin what sense is this software not a virus?
- Upvoter33 7mo agoHonestly this thread was been one of the funniest HN threads I've seen. So much gold in here - for which I thank you all. "My React website can't star React" "in what sense is this software not a virus?" "GitHub stars are great for measuring the number of GitHub stars a project has" etc. All gold.
- alansaber 7mo agoWell deserved, the best written piece of software ever.
- sgalbincea 7mo agoThis is going to be more profitable for the public AI companies than cell phone minutes and SMS limits were for the telcos. It's a brilliant business move, given that hardly anyone is competent enough to recognize the gross inefficiencies in the code and prompts.
- xantronix 7mo agoNobody has the _time_, that's for goddamned sure. The business model sounds very similar to that of Philip Morris International.
- polytely 7mo agowhen i use claude opus via opencode/openrouter i'm sometimes suprised by how quickly costs can get out of hand. What are the costs of running openClaw, it seems like it would get crazy expensive crazy fast?
- laweijfmvo 7mo agoDoes this mean that the creator of OpenClaw qualifies for that free Claude Max trial?
- siva7 7mo agoNo, Openai employees are banned by Anthropic from using Claude.
- furyofantares 7mo agoOpenAI employees are also banned from using Claude by Pete Hegseth, according to Pete Hegseth
- mccoyb 7mo agoGitHub has a bot problem: https://github.com/trending https://github.com/trending
- Alifatisk 7mo ago”ruvnet / wifi-densepose” is currently at the top in the moment. Apparently, its a non functional AI slop. Someone tried installing it ago only to find out the full thing was vibe coded and the entire repo is probably just a front to look good on the their resume.
- luke5441 7mo agoAnthropic giving away Claude if you get 5000 stars doesn't help either
- theshrike79 7mo agoI'm pretty sure it's not "if 5000 stars then free Claude". It's just an initial limit before they bother a human to check if your open source project is valid. Just like Jetbrains gives away IDEA licenses for open source projects, you need to have some metrics go up before they even consider you.
- h1fra 7mo agoThis is going to be the most starred and unused repo very quickly. The hype is already fading, as expected
- bwb 7mo agoI'm blown away by the comments. This is a cool project someone created with clear warnings about its current state (beta), and the community is being utterly disrespectful. They are building something that many people find useful/fascinating/intriguing/fun. Come on HN.
- brakup 7mo agoWhy should people find an automated, buggy, risky slopworm for script kiddies that relies on an external slop provider who also gets all your data interesting? This is the lowest, most boring form of programming.
- bwb 7mo agoI think if you dig into it and play with it, you will find that it is doing some really cool stuff. I started playing with it a few weeks ago, and I am having a blast messing around with it. Hoping to hook it up to a robot kit next month to try some fun stuff. Are some people using it in absolutely shitty ways? Yes, but that isn't the majority of the people playing with it. The negativity I am seeing here is off the charts and undserved.
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- g947o 7mo agoA comment on OpenClaw about how useful it is with absolutely no concrete examples? That's a surprise.
- tredre3 7mo agoYes the cynical tropes are getting tired by now, even though I personally agree with most of them. But suspicions on the legitimacy of the stars seems reasonable, wouldn't you agree? Look at the rate of stars, look at the comments/issues/prs on the repo. It feels safe to assume that most of them are from bots and not organic humans who went out to star a cool project.
- SunshineTheCat 7mo agoI keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated at all (do you really need to be reminded to make coffee?) I fully realize this is probably me being a curmudgeon, however, I have yet to see someone make an actual, practical use case for it. (I would genuinely like to know one, I just haven't seen it)
- michihuber 7mo agowhen the internet started you were sending "funny" messages on ICQ, sharing mp3s with your friends, browsing weird websites on geocities, maybe ordered a book on amazon that you could have gotten down the street much faster. all the things I do with openclaw are in that ballpark of usefulness/importance.
- theshrike79 7mo agoI'm a skeptic myself and a long-time developer. But I do have to admit there's a nugget of truth in the Claws. I installed picoclaw on a whim (or nano? can't remember). In maybe 15 minutes I had it make a "get weather for this specific area using the met.no API" skill and "check the train tables at these two stops for this specific line" skill. Then I could just say "I go to the office every Monday on a train that leaves at 8, notify me if the weather is bad or there are delays in the train schedules" And it just worked. The "make a skill" bit was optional, it could've figured out both on its own, but I've been doing this for a while and figured out it's a lot more (token) efficient to have it specifically know how to do the things I want it to do. --- Now lets take this loop and think about the system and what it could do. Even if I wasn't a programmer and just went with "tell me when the train line I use for my commute is late" the system itself could see that "hmm, this looks like a thing I'll be doing often" and create a script/skill/plugin to do that via an official API (or WebMCP in the future). You can't do that with Zapier or N8N. There are many cool ways a pure LLM-powered system like that can be optimised, and more importantly, can be taught to self-optimise. By default I think the systems use the "main" model to read the HEARTBEAT.md file, which is stupid expensive. That could be done with a local model small enough to run on a modern phone. And if that small local model says "yep, there's something to do", then it can either give the full task to a LLM or if it's smart enough it can spread specific tasks to small or medium local models first. tl;dr OpenClaw is what Siri should've been after that epic fail of a Apple Keynote.
- fidotron 7mo agoWhat's so incredible about OpenClaw is so much of the value people are deriving from it relates to: cron jobs, remote access, "privacy" (which really it's not if using remote LLMs) and an inability to fuse data across siloes by normal people, so relying on AI to do it. If we had a decent technical universe much of this stuff would work in ways that simply don't require LLMs for anything other than the initial setup.
- brtkwr 7mo agoI got OpenClaw to compile Node from source on my old Jetson Nano so that I can run OpenClaw natively instead of using Bun. It took 30 hours but it did it by spinning up a tmux session for the build and using a cron to monitor the tmux pane every hour and even fixing a failure at 5 am which I would have had to find out later had crashed but it had actually found what needed to be changed for the build to continue and it continued building.... Now I have the latest version of OpenClaw running on Node 22 on my 5 year old Jetson Nano running Ubuntu 18 which I cannot upgrade. What they say is all true, it is incredible stuff when it works! Full story: https://brtkwr.com/posts/2026-03-02-upgrading-openclaw-to-latest-node22-on-jetson-nano/ https://brtkwr.com/posts/2026-03-02-upgrading-openclaw-to-la...
- rune-dev 7mo agoApologies if I missed it while skimming your blog post. But could you estimate the token cost of this? Or were you able to comfortably do this with a subscription plan?
- bombela 7mo agoThat's really cool. But wouldn't have been quicker and simpler to add ".bun/" to the pattern of authorized paths the same way it presumably works for ".npm/"?
- xantronix 7mo agoIt's bizarre to me how Microsoft somehow owns two of the largest social networks for software developers.
- ChristianDavis 7mo agoOh look, another public service being looted for nefarious purposes. Thanks OpenAI!
- DeathArrow 7mo agoOpenClaw agents are starring OpenClaw project? What a surprise!
- neals 7mo agoGives me mongodb vibes. This whole Ai coding thing too. On one side, religious loud following, on the other side the nay sayers. We'll probably end up in the middle.
- cpursley 7mo agoFwiw, Claude and Codex are very very good at SQL and have actually taught me some new tricks. No reason to use mongodb or firebase in 2026: https://postgresisenough.dev https://postgresisenough.dev
- Bridged7756 7mo agoI agree. I for one, welcome LLMs for sensible uses, like trivia, code boilerplate, as a content synthesizer. I wouldn't trust it with anything else, and have found that any gains obtained by speedups in code writing are offset by the extra cognitive load from digesting code I didn't write.
- dsr_ 7mo agoCocAIne is a hell of a drug.
- informal007 7mo agoIs there a place to show what users use OpenClaw in life or work? I’ve tried OpenClaw two weeks but don’t know what it can do for me. I let it to finish some project for me, but the most hard work for project is validating the results over giving instructions
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- r0b05 7mo agoSo React was the last most human-starred project on GitHub before the dawn of agent-starred projects.
- hinkley 7mo agoI say, 'your civilization' because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became... our... civilization.
- blueTiger33 7mo agojust gave a star to Linux
- toinewx 7mo agoI tried it today for the first time. The onboarding is okay. I picked Whatsapp but it ended up using my own account! So it's absolutely too dangerous. We are supposed to create a separate account but with which phone number? I only have one. So I picked Telegram instead, added it to a group chat, but it was a slog to set the authorizations. In the end I don't trust it to read my mails for security reasons so I uninstalled it!
- AbraKdabra 7mo ago> I picked Whatsapp but it ended up using my own account! So it's absolutely too dangerous. We are supposed to create a separate account but with which phone number? I only have one. You're joking right?
- toinewx 7mo agonope, they recommend creating a separate whatsapp account. but fall short of saying you need a separate number (and subscription)
- recursive 7mo agoWhat would the joke be? I haven't touched OpenClaw and probably won't. I use WhatsApp lightly, but it seems like it requires a distinct phone number, used as an account identifier. So for the benefit of those of us not immersed in this scene, could you elaborate?
- permo-w 7mo agoPresumably they're referring to the general ease of obtaining a second phone number. I think the bigger issue could be making a second Whatsapp account though. WhatsApp does not want you having multiple accounts. Last I checked there's no in-app option to log out on Android other than to delete your account
- AdamN 7mo agoMacOS supports multiple users - I would absolutely sandbox any agent like this and only slowly give it permissions (and never to anything that's critical without compensating controls).
- eddof13 7mo agoI'm tempted not to use it to control everything, but install it on my mac and give it access to keyboard maestro macros and that's it
- TrackerFF 7mo agoWonder how much of that is contributed by bot/farm accounts. The creator certainly has the means. EDIT: I should mention, I'm talking about the initial growth / traction.
- dokdev 7mo agoGithub stars started feeling more and more meaningless every day.
- nkzd 7mo agoI am yet to see one good use case for it.
- sva_ 7mo ago... It was mostly starred by OpenClaw B̶o̶t̶s̶ Agents, wasn't it?
- amelius 7mo agoWhen I ask ChatGPT about OpenClaw, it refers to: https://github.com/pjasicek/OpenClaw https://github.com/pjasicek/OpenClaw OpenClaw - Captain Claw (1997) reimplementation
- maybeiambatman 7mo agoGreat game.
- hmokiguess 7mo agoWho are these people? I was skeptical at first and seriously thinking surely not the software engineers out there as we see in HN how risky and wild this is. Then, to my surprise, a coworker came and told me they were running it and happy with that setup. I was baffled, but I work with Gen Z in a pretty niche Gen Alpha market, so I kinda feel like they’re somewhat more likely to go for these things. What’s your experience?
- sva_ 7mo ago> Who are these people? For example, someone working in safety and alignment at Meta: https://nitter.net/FakePsyho/status/2025857836014538818 https://nitter.net/FakePsyho/status/2025857836014538818
- g947o 7mo agoThat kind of explains why Meta's AI effort has been going so well for the past year.
- hmokiguess 7mo agoMixed feelings here, if she is a researcher then I guess part of her research should be explore this in some level of depth with real stakes. Though this does make it seem like that was not what she was doing there.
- ffsm8 7mo agoIf I could use it at my day job, I'd do it within a heartbeat - albeit only with readonly access (with write only on it's own files/output/sandbox) There are so many mails and communications with so many tasks to research via confluence etc But on my private hardware? Idk, I haven't found a use for it...
- hmokiguess 7mo agoI'm sure you can already do some kind of scripting + LLMs without necessarily needing this at your work though, no? Email is stored in your device somewhere, you could just get its content sent to your preferred agent, you can use one of the many mobile clients if you rather interact through that kind of UX (like self hosted hapi.run + tailscale for example), and you could setup a cronjob or something like it on your machine to do it based on whatever interval. This is just one way I personally could go about it, YMMV obviously. Is there a specific reason why you will not do something like that for example?
- croddin 7mo agoAs many other comments have said there probably is a good percent of stars by claws themselves, I would be curious what percent this is but it is also interesting: current "dumb bot" stars/spam etc is entirely automated and coordinated but these claws probably independently reasoned over long thought chains about why it is a good idea to star openclaw.
- ivanjermakov 7mo agoGitHub star count was a good metric until it became clear that it is a good metric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
- jiangyangcreate 7mo agosuch as : algorithms test
- blenderob 7mo agoLook at the graph - https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=facebook/react,openclaw/openclaw,torvalds/linux&type=Date https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=facebook/react,opencl... React and Linux got their 200K stars slowly but surely over 10 years. OpenClaw got their 200K stars in like 3 months! Is this any meaningful comparison? Getting 200K stars today doesn't mean much because today stars can be bought. There's a big shady thriving business of selling stars. Stars today can be generated using swarm of thoughtless agents. What's the use of counting these stars when they don't mean anything anymore?
- theshrike79 7mo agoEveryone's Clawd has a Github account that most likely has liked the OpenClaw project Would be nice to see a graph of stars by account age, how many of the stars come from accounts that are under 6 months old for example?
- marginalia_nu 7mo agoI was looking at the accounts that have starred the OpenClaw project. Many seem relatively old, but I couldn't find more than a handful that seemed to be publicly active in any sense (e.g. making PRs or commits). Same story with the forks. A metric shit-ton ton of forks, no branches or commits or any sign of activity on the forks. Compared that to the people who have been starring my projects, and every single one of them had some sort of activity on record. --edit-- Checked again now, seems more recent accounts have some activity. But still, lots of accounts like these https://github.com/hannhow https://github.com/hannhow https://github.com/197291 https://github.com/197291 https://github.com/Honstanding https://github.com/Honstanding https://github.com/FriTOol https://github.com/FriTOol
- d4rkp4ttern 7mo agoThe first use case of OpenClaw is…
- crumpled 7mo agoI agree with your point, and am only responding to the last sentence. Starring can be useful to the starer. They are just counted because it is countable. Whether you find the number meaningful remains up to you.
- mikey_p 7mo agoWho cares about stars on Github??? "If dev null is fast and webscale I will use it" "Does dev null support sharding" Who remembers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
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- croddin 7mo agoIn other news, "Show HN: This up votes itself"[1] from 14 years ago is still the 20th most voted story in HN history.[2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902 [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- iJohnDoe 7mo agoI have a strong hunch that everything regarding OpenClaw is pure guerrilla marketing. If so, the only thing amazing about OpenClaw is their wildly successful marketing campaign.
- draxil 7mo agohow many of these stars were applied by openclaw?
- mikeocool 7mo agoThis sort of highlights the meaninglessness of GitHub stars? React has been around for over a decade, and in that time pretty significantly impacted web dev paradigms (along with a few other mediums). It’s hard to imagine being a web developer today and not knowing at least some react. OpenClaw has been around for like a few months? And maybe it’s on its way to having that sort of impact? But right now seems to he mostly the purview of very early adopters and AI influencers.
- tacet 7mo agoThere are youtube skits about openclaw. It is discussed in techy podcasts and i think it was mentioned in 404 as well. It's popular because people are exploring "what can i do with compute" once again. React is as meaningless as tickless kernels for vast majority of people. Should be noted that i am not using any claws. Just a person remembering people spending their nights programming all sorts of psychedelic displays in qbasic with some moving on to asm. Asm for fun.
- tantalor 7mo agoIt's basically the same as The New York Times Best Seller list
- Tadpole9181 7mo agoGitHub accounts are free and the project is literally a bot-ing service. It stands to reason that the tens of thousands of robots unleashed on the web are responsible for these stars? It's larger than literally every open source service I thought to use as a benchmark. Rust, React, Vue, Symfony, Laravel, PHP Stan, Python, ESlint, rails, LLVM, Spring, fucking Linux itself. I would wager the legitimate stars for OpenClaw are single digit percents of this. But hey, I haven't actually run the numbers on the GitHub API.
- ramoz 7mo agoOpenClaw is not going away anytime soon. And I don’t think it can be platformed behind web UIs. OpenAI owns an OS with this one. I avoided the hype at first; however, it has become extremely efficient for emails and notes, and I can see how this can extend to any sort of digital workflow. The convenience of chatting with this thing, no matter where I'm at, is a key marker.
- ramesh31 7mo agoStars have become completely meaningless in the last year or two. It's a shame, because having a few thousand Github stars used to be a really big deal, and was a quality marker for libraries that had reached a level of maturity and production grade. Now it's just social media bot driven nonsense.
- cfiggers 7mo agoIt's entertaining to me to imagine future historians arguing with one another, writing dissertations, publishing virtual reality eyeBooks, explaining to one another all about the ancient etymological connection between "claws" and "webhooks".
- faize 7mo agoI spent around $5 setting up a small bot and sending a few requests through the Claude API. For those who use Claude (or similar LLM APIs) on a daily basis, what does your monthly spend look like in practice? And do you feel the cost is justified by the value you’re getting?
- skeledrew 7mo agoI got the full value of my Claude Pro subscription in the first couple few hours of having taking the leap. Hit the message limit and had to edit for reset, but I was already a happy customer given the progress I made on a project that I was trying to recover (couldn't quite figure what was needed to get it ready for real world usable, but Claude Code figured it and it was a good collab getting it there).
- LanceJones 7mo ago$200/mth USD for me. Anthropic's oAuth Max20 subscription via their SDK. I've had several 100M+ token days without even a blip.
- 4dregress 7mo agoI had no idea what openclaw was, just checked and no thanks I’d rather do all that stuff myself. Why are people so keen to let a company get that close to their real life’s, it’s terrifying!
- melonpan7 7mo agoHalf of them coming from agents
- DrammBA 7mo agoI've seen multiple comments saying that openclaw stars itself during onboarding or that it asks its user to star, but noone has posted any proof, is there any concrete evidence for those claims?
- singularity2001 7mo agoAm I blind or does this post not contain any links to the GitHub in question???
- butz 7mo agoSo, how do I use this OpenClaw to automate actually useful things, like sweeping floor, washing dishes and doing laundry?
- recursive 7mo agoGive it one of those tesla bots.
- throwyawayyyy 7mo agoA lack of imagination on my part perhaps, but I can't think of anything I'd use it for which isn't either: 1) cheating myself and others of leisure (e.g. I suppose I could use it to fake-keep up with friends..? Or plan a holiday and book a load of stuff for me. But I like doing that!), 2) not feasible (loading and unloading the dishwasher, which is already the robot I used to wash dishes), 3) utterly insane (it's tax time in the US).
- bionaut 7mo agoThink about how openclaw can automatically send email to book guests on your podcast that no one watches. It is a game changer. It can even automatically send email to other people who have podcasts and youtube channels no one watches to come on your podcast no one watches and you can both discuss what a game changer openclaw is. It can even then watch the podcasts for both of you so now you both have viewers!
- throwyawayyyy 6mo agoI'm reminded of Douglas Adams's take on video recorders as machines to watch television so you don't have to. He should have been around to see Marvin built for real!
- permo-w 7mo agoHave it blackmail someone into doing it for you
- throwaway13337 7mo agoThe stars are probably legitimate. It's weird that most people in these comments are speculating fraud. Why aren't companies with real money to gain from stars gaming the system to the same degree? Why do the other metrics - issues and pull requests - match up with its popularity? Why would the bots starring the repo mean that those same bots are not popular? Those bots are controlled by their users. The project is extremely active because this is what everyone being able to customize their computing looks like. A mess. But it's a good mess. Github was the old code sharing model clearly not designed for this. I'm sure a new model for code sharing will come to fix the growing pains. A ton of people who would have never been able to customize their computing experience are finally able to. And it is magical for them. This means that those same people will finally value having access to source and use of open protocols. It was always valuable to us because we had the power to make it matter. It never mattered to them because they did not. Now they do. The last era of computing was defined by dumbing down computing for the masses. Less information, less customizable, and more metric driven. Control in the hands of the companies. This new era will look more free/libre, more personal, and less enshitified. Control in the hands of the users. This is a very positive development.
- echoangle 7mo ago> Why aren't companies with real money to gain from stars gaming the system to the same degree? How are you gaining money from stars? Why would Facebook bot stars for the react repo?
- adampunk 7mo agoI think the implication here is that if we can’t find evidence of or motivation for companies paying to inflate their star counts, then we should cool it on the accusation that magically fraud has appeared in this case. We also should remember that if this project had zero stars, we would hear crowing from these same people about how true and important that metric was. The idea that “open claw” paid for these stars somehow is mostly just reasoning backwards from the idea that no one would find this project interesting.
- m463 7mo agoMaybe AI is helping with the difficulties of upvoting a project on github. or is it tooting its own horn?
- johnwheeler 7mo agoI wanna understand this, but it's gone from a bunch of people talking about how great it is to a bunch of technical people talking about how worthless it is. So I think it's probably not that great. Who cares if I can chat remotely with my AI? What's the difference? What's so good about that?
- deafpolygon 7mo agoHow much of it is AI agents starring the project?