Those colour combinations are simply awful. It's like they were designed by a university professor.

It's just HTML, you could use any color you want. I'm curious why you specifically call out university professors as people of average design skill, though.

Hmm, should've specified better. It reminds me of those webpages professors have in the website of the university, for which they write the HTML themselves, and they always use Times New Roman with some horrible colour scheme, heh

Whats with the GDPR compliant thing? This seems disingenuous.

Probably just a joke as everybody seems to be a bit insecure these days about what is GDPR compliant and what is not.

I assume it's because it's fully in HTML, no external images or scripts to load, so you don't need to worry about your user's IP's being collected in someone's log files.

The GDPR reference is totally relevant. You see, every popular library or js include has some kind of tracking in it. It’s default implementation, the one you copy and paste, or added via package manager, is either by default contains something hosted on a cdn, other server outside your control, contains embedded google analytics or other. It’s all justified. But it’s not GDPR compliant without my explicit plain language opt in. This little bit of html, you can freely copy and paste, into whatever you feel like, has no tracking in it. It’s completely self contained, any tracking of its usage must be done by the copy/paster, the company that oversees your browsers activity, or your isp’s deep packet sniffing. Also, the project now has 5 stars. Not fake either, sorry about that. The project must be resonating. Perhaps the flagging made it more important.

At least Github doesn't need JS to show a readme.

Shouldn't the L in GitLab in the images be capitalised?

Looks like it is capitalized in the HTML snippets, it just doesn't reflect in the example images.

Please can someone help me understand how placing a link on a webpage got to page 1 on hacker news?

Adding to what @jarfil said, it is also Saturday.

Many non-relevant stories show up in the front page of HN during the weekend because many people disconnect from the website to stay with their families or whatever. Many of these missing upvotes/downvotes are also the ones that make up the self-moderation that the website is known for. Don't think too much about it, the GitHub + Microsoft thing is just in the air nowadays, anything that teases the acquisition will sparkle a reaction from the community, today that reaction translates into upvotes of this type of links.

It's GDPR compliant, also GitHub is now MS, so like the dark side, and GitLab is Han Solo.

In one word: populism.