Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e...
by davnn on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:28AM
(#47168251)
What was happening with this account? I was often seeing popular but empty (only title of the paper and maybe a short readme) repositories that were created directly after a paper was published?
Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e...
by observationist on Thursday February 26, 2026 @12:44PM
(#47169363)
Just part of the process - he'd queue up the projects as interesting things came in, then plow through. Usually he'd have a rough framework within a day or two, and then a working proof of concept within a week, and then return to the most promising, useful, or interesting projects.
Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e...
by davnn on Thursday February 26, 2026 @04:10PM
(#47172040)
I really appreciated his coding-style, but the bar is quite low on research/ML-algorithms to be fair. I still wonder how he managed to get „trending“ repositories regularly despite the repositories being empty.
Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e...
by nextaccountic on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:17PM
(#47171465)
Is this mirrored on gitlab or somewhere else? Nobody should trust Github to store all their data
Re:Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam e...
by observationist on Saturday February 28, 2026 @11:15AM
(#47197042)
https://codeberg.org/lucidrains
Can't keep a good guy down. Probably high time to leave github behind, as well, all things considered.
Mind fixing lucidrains account? Something happened without notice or recourse. He's one of, if not the most well known open source AI researchers on the planet, with implementations and explanations of papers and ideas that are wonderful. If you could bring some sanity to that situation and take it out of whatever kafkaesque account purgatory it fell into, you'd be doing the work of angels.
Thanks!