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Re:Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React by huhtenberg on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:58AM (#20830070)
Can someone explain what's this is about?

> Please (star) this repo if you found it useful (star) (star) (star)

Gotta be very important for something, since it's literally the second line in the readme.

Re:Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React by burning-madness on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:52AM (#20830583)
Recruiters use GitHub profiles as a proxy for engagement and, I would assume, amount-of-stars-in-pet-project to be used as a KPI in this measurement.

I think that's asinine but I don't make the rules.

That's not how I evaluate people when I'm doing the hire.

Re:Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React by WorldMaker on Thursday August 29, 2019 @11:55AM (#20830614)
GitHub Trending Repository lists, for one. Some (idiot) third party sites use stars as some weird approximation metric for "quality" or "usefulness", for the other.