[HN Gopher] Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of G...
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Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects
Author : anvaka
Score : 75 points
Date : 2023-05-13 18:47 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| bluefishinit wrote:
| This is really neat! Are there any insights you gleaned from
| doing this that were unexpected?
| pvaldes wrote:
| Somebody has been doing a lot of Covid-19 plots in Gnu-R
| anvaka wrote:
| I knew GitHub is not a tiny website, but I didn't imagine how
| big it actually is. Each of those dots are giant parts of
| someone's life.
|
| There are a lot of interests that I didn't know exist. For
| example https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-
| Programming-... - someone collects anime girls holding
| programming books.
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| https://github.com/tylertreat/Comcast - and here is someone who
| is amazing at coming up with funny project names =)
| junon wrote:
| The data seems a bit dated, but this is really cool.
|
| I know this because I moved visionmedia/debug to debug-js/debug
| in November of 2021.
| anvaka wrote:
| I've got data from 2020 to end of March 2023
| irrational wrote:
| Is there a page that explains what the island names mean? I
| understand Minecraftria, but Fluttopia (and most others)? No
| clue.
| detaro wrote:
| it usually becomes clear when zooming in and looking at the
| examples. E.g. "Fluttopia" is Flutter-related repos.
| anvaka wrote:
| Yes! Thank you
|
| Note that some country are missing their names because I
| didn't have enough knowledge to assign a name to them.
|
| Here is my naming process if anyone wants to help with the
| rest: https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-github#country-names
| swyx wrote:
| very cool! how did you decide on the boundaries and
| placement of the continents?
| paulddraper wrote:
| Nice!!
|
| But how do I zoom in/out?
| bluefishinit wrote:
| Scroll wheel works for me.
| paulddraper wrote:
| IDK how I feel about Kubernation: Firecracker, Grafana,
| Localstack, Podman, Terraform, Vault?
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| Seems like a really overreaching power. Wait, never mind, that
| makes sense.
| anvaka wrote:
| :D btw, if you find any country label to be missing or could be
| improved - right click it, change it, and then send a PR (it's
| two clicks away)
| swyx wrote:
| how exactly did you name and cluster these things? i love how
| you presented it and dont know of any existing quantitative
| methodology
| anvaka wrote:
| Check this out https://github.com/anvaka/map-of-github#how-
| was-it-made - I gave a short overview there - does this
| help?
| edrxty wrote:
| This is amazing, the GitHub ham radio and hardware scenes are way
| bigger than I previously thought. Shout-out to OpenRTX and M17
| along with all the awesome SDR applications!
| divan wrote:
| Check out other anvaka's projects, there are gems:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=anvaka.github.io
| tomthe wrote:
| Or check them out directly on the map:
| https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/#12.36/-31.74456/14.8...
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