I'm always baffled whenever a GitHub repo trends on here. I would have guessed a list of files and a Readme would be the last thing that would trend.

GitHub projects trend on HN because a GitHub page is certainly not ‘just’ a ReadMe and a list of files, any more than a programming book is a just pile of paper and ink.

GitHub is one of the most valuable troves of information we have on the entire Internet, certainly - and represents countless hours of work from millions of people all over the world, openly contributing and sharing knowledge and tools with others, without the interest of profit.

I don’t think there are many other websites in the world that align with HN’s values more than GitHub. It’s almost invaluable to humanity.

Microsoft is using the code in GitHub to train their machine learning bots.

I guess the idea is that the bots can take over writing bug fixes for Windows.

Probably easier on desktop, but on the device I actually consume Netflix, it's not as straight forward:

- Apple TV: not sure how - iOS: blocks screenshots (you get a black frame)

You get the same thing on desktop. A couple months ago I wanted to share a clip of a show that was very relevant to a conversation and just ended up with black where the video was. Had to use Firefox to be able to capture it since that doesn't support the same DRM as Chrome-based browsers and Safari (the lack of that DRM support is also why the services limit what quality is streamed to Firefox clients).

Web page bandwidth quota exhausted by adware and JS plugins. No more left for an image.

Not really an issue for a project hosted on GitHub.

It does take significantly longer than just writing a few sentences. I loathe having to gather screenshots when creating documentation, despite not minding the other aspects of documentation much.

Not disagreeing with you, but just answering the implied question of…

> I just cannot understand people…

On a Mac, it’s as quick as hitting CMD+Shift+4 and I get a PNG on my desktop.

If I’m creating a CSS framework anyway, I’ve gotta test it. It literally takes 2 seconds - literally - to hit CMD+Shift+4 (I don’t know the Windows equivalent) - and when I publish to GitHub and write my readme, it takes another handful of seconds to add that image into the article.

Since that GitHub page is about a CSS framework, people are much more likely to download, use, fork or contribute to it - if you’ve spent this less than ten seconds to help your potential users out.

There’s lots and lots of utilities and articles for which you wouldn’t need to use screenshots as examples - command line utilities, certain frameworks, etc - but this article is an example of the opposite.

The reason I can’t understand people who would do that - especially in the example of said CSS framework - is if you’ve spent all this time working on something like that, and you’re choosing to share it with people - why not undergo that ~10-15 second long process for their sake?

Windows equivalent: Win-Shift-S