Ask HN: Is GitHub's #1 repo fake? build-your-own-x 491K stars
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Ask HN: Is GitHub's #1 repo fake?
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build-your-own-x 491K stars.
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GitHub's #1 most starred repo is build-your-own-x [1] with 491K stars.
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Even the few HN posts about it are very suspicious.
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A post with 800 points usually has over 400 comments that go very deep, but now look at the build-your-own-x's hn submission [2].
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