Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning

Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by evrenesat on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @01:45PM (#47051314)

Yes, any metric can be gamed. But I believe measuring the entropy of a repository, comparing state of the code-base over time can be done deterministically, which would make it harder to game it.

So either we are going to completely avoid automation and create a community council to decide what deserves to be shown to rest of the community or just let best AI models to decide if a project is worth show up on front page?

Or we can do all of the above :)

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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by saghm on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:37PM (#47052052)

Isn't it possible to fabricate the timestamps on commits and then push them up all at once? If you're planning on literally checking that the commits are publicly available for a certain amount of time, that seems like it would needlessly punish projects that someone worked on offline and then happened to push up once it was completed.

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Re:Is Show HN Dead? No, but It's Drowning by accurrent on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:21PM (#47051808)

What about hardware projects without a code base? Those are fun too and deserve front page

I suspect automating "code base over time" metric is tricky. Not everyone will be using git or a vcs and somethings dont need a codebase to be shared.

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