On: My journey from high school to a feature in Forbes...

[minimaxir]

Free Code Camp is a massive outlier. It received most stars of any repo at 177,914 stars in 2016, and the second most (the google-interview-university which has appeared a few times on HN) has only received a fraction of that at 28,727 stars in 2016, which likely did not use as much growth hacking.

Full list of the Top 1000 Repos, freshly queried from BigQuery: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11bGpZq6ixlhrmQnzEUqb...

[tskaiser → minimaxir]

While it is an outlier it is also proof that it is a poor system of measurement.

[bcook → tskaiser]

It is? I think the problem is how we (mis)interpret the data to mean anything more than what it actually says.

[wlesieutre → bcook]

So what's the takeaway, "Repo stars are an accurate measurement of how many stars a repo has"?