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Re:Ask HN: Why did the number of new GitHub repos crash in l... by fiddlerwoaroof on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @06:54PM (#37935897)
People not wanting copilot to be trained on their code?
Re:Ask HN: Why did the number of new GitHub repos crash in l... by altdataseller on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:00PM (#37935950)
When you see stuff like this happens. It’s most likely something wrong with the tool that is gathering this data. They lost data access or something funky like the max number of pages they can iterate went down
Re:Ask HN: Why did the number of new GitHub repos crash in l... by jjgreen on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:15PM (#37936081)
Mandatory 2FA announced mid 2022?
Re:Ask HN: Why did the number of new GitHub repos crash in l... by gustavus on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:24PM (#37936155)
I'd probably put money on that. Not that it stopped people from creating repos but that it did something with the permissions of the tool gathering the data and the rate limiting to reduce the amount of data ingested.
Re:Ask HN: Why did the number of new GitHub repos crash in l... by mattdeboard on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:29PM (#37936194)
that query isn’t for new Github repos, it’s for the number of github repos the counter was 1. allowed to count and 2. knew how to count. all that said it is pretty interesting 90k repos went away somehow between August 1 and September 1 last year. Good question. (Also, interesting tool. Never heard of ossinsight before.)
Re:Ask HN: Why did the number of new GitHub repos crash in l... by thunderbong on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:02PM (#37937812)
Could it be due to [0]:

> Most likely better bot protection, almost all of npm is currently scrapped to teach ai bots coding

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/16mna5z/whats_...

Re:Ask HN: Why did the number of new GitHub repos crash in l... by SushiHippie on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:59PM (#37938205)
On clickhouse I can't see that crash. IIRC clickhouse sources their data from https://www.gharchive.org/

The query I used: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIAogICAgZ...

EDIT: just saw that ossinsight also uses gharchive