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Comment by DaSHacka | Hacker News Reader

I'm always amazed at how many stars these glorified `list.txt` repos get

https://star-history.com/#deepseek-ai/awesome-deepseek-integ...

Amazing, besides most of these links in the provided list are not anywhere near awesome as for example the Awesome Spatial or Awesome JS are. And still - are we not beyond Mozilla directory for 20 years now? I’m expecting someone implements and Amazing RAG for these lists… otherwise they are of little help to the novi ce as many sentries are dubiously amazing.

DeepSeek's stuff might be getting many of their stars based on patriotic or nationalistic motives. Also there's a lot of people in software in China who do not read English at all (I would say 95+% of all IT people). Something familiar might get a star.

I guess it signifies something closer to a bookmark than approval as a repo with quality code

This is how I use stars - as bookmarks. Am I doing it wrong?

>I use stars - as bookmarks. Am I doing it wrong?

Nope. Github stars are intended to be used the way you've described:

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/exploring-projects-on...

It's similar to a user clicking the "favorite" link on a particular HN comment. It's a way for HN users to "bookmark" old comments to be saved in their own "favorites" list.

No, but there there is a strangely prominent belief that "starring" a repo is supposed to convey a signal of some sort. I suppose people who didn't experience life without 'social media' lack a mental model to understand other uses.

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