It’s not, it’s just how hackernews works. You’ll see new projects hit 1k-10k stars in a matter of a day. You can have the best project, best article to you but if everyone else doesn’t think so it’ll always be at the bottom. Some luck involved too. Bots upvoting a post not organically I doubt is gonna live long on first page.
man has been posting a lot before the initial commit about his library. following the guy on linkedin.
Could be bots.
It’s not, it’s just how hackernews works. You’ll see new projects hit 1k-10k stars in a matter of a day. You can have the best project, best article to you but if everyone else doesn’t think so it’ll always be at the bottom. Some luck involved too. Bots upvoting a post not organically I doubt is gonna live long on first page.
The stars are on GitHub, they can come from somewhere else, e.g. the author himself buying stars.
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That's not how it works. My publication with (subjectively) better language barely had a couple of comments and github stars.
Definitely could be, but the dev has been posting updates on Twitter for a while now. It could be just some amount of hype they have built.