[HN Gopher] Congratulations on creating the one billionth reposi...
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       Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub
        
       Author : petercooper
       Score  : 574 points
       Date   : 2025-06-11 21:37 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | bitpush wrote:
       | curl -s https://api.github.com/repositories/1000000000 { "id":
       | 1000000000, "node_id": "R_kgDOO5rKAA", "name": "shit",
       | "full_name": "AasishPokhrel/shit" }
        
       | samgranieri wrote:
       | Well shit!
        
       | mistersquid wrote:
       | Is this what folks mean by enshittification?
        
         | arcanemachiner wrote:
         | For anyone wondering, the name of the repo is literally "shit".
        
       | Cyphase wrote:
       | I'm wondering if AasishPokhrel created this repo for the purpose
       | of being the billionth.
        
         | joshdavham wrote:
         | I highly doubt it, but that does sound possible.
        
         | paxys wrote:
         | It's pretty easy to game this. Just keep creating repos till
         | you hit # one billion and remove the old ones. Their API makes
         | it trivial. The only issue will be rate limits, and other
         | people simultaneously creating repos, so it's a matter of luck.
        
           | recursive wrote:
           | I don't believe they will renumber the old ones. Also, it
           | can't be trivial, since two people can try this, and only one
           | can win.
        
             | handfuloflight wrote:
             | There is always one trillion to look forward to!
        
               | hu3 wrote:
               | bogus ai agents stuck in loops will get us there soon
               | enough
        
             | Macha wrote:
             | The one who lost doesn't get discussed in this thread.
        
               | recursive wrote:
               | Yes, but that doesn't make it trivial.
        
           | GodelNumbering wrote:
           | There was a guy who got fired from Meta for creating
           | excessive automated diffs in pursuit of a certain magic
           | number
        
             | paxys wrote:
             | I hope PR #80085 was worth it.
        
             | fancyswimtime wrote:
             | 69 doesn't seem excessive
        
             | nithssh wrote:
             | Sounds interesting, is there anything online about this?
        
         | maniacalhack0r wrote:
         | AasishPokhrel made 2 repos yday - shit and yep. no activity
         | between may 17th and june 10th.
         | 
         | i have no idea if its possible to calculate the rate at which
         | repos are being created and time your repo creation to hit
         | vanity numbers
        
         | kylehotchkiss wrote:
         | I think he's in university for software development in Nepal,
         | and it's really touching that a milestone could go so deeply
         | into the world. Hopefully he has a big spot for this on his
         | resume and can find a great career in development!
        
           | netsharc wrote:
           | I don't get why this needs a big spot in his resume, and why
           | it should lead to a great career. A company/hiring manager
           | that thinks being lucky to hit a magic number on some system
           | has any relevance to work, I'd rate as very insane...
        
             | mkagenius wrote:
             | I will be really sus of someone's intelligence if they
             | mentioned this as an achievement. It's fine as a joke,
             | though.
        
           | notfed wrote:
           | I find a bit of humor in the fact that this is completely
           | unrequited attention. There's even a chance the guy is
           | oblivious.
        
       | fHr wrote:
       | repo named shit LMFAO nice
        
       | joshdavham wrote:
       | This is actually incredible.
        
       | umanwizard wrote:
       | On a serious note, I'm a bit surprised that GitHub makes it
       | trivial to compute the rate at which new repositories are
       | created. Isn't that kind of information usually a corporate
       | secret?
        
         | raincole wrote:
         | Is there any reason for GitHub to hide this information though?
         | How could it be used against them?
         | 
         | (I understand many companies default to not expose any
         | information unless forced otherwise.)
        
           | toast0 wrote:
           | The rate of creation is like meh, but being able to enumerate
           | all of the repos might be problematic, following new repos
           | and scanning them for leaked credentials could be a
           | negative... but github may have a feed of new repos anyway?
           | 
           | Also, having a sequence implies at least a global lock on
           | that sequence during repo creation. Repo creation could
           | otherwise be a scoped lock. OTOH, it's not necessarily
           | handled that way --- they could hand out ranges of sequences
           | to different servers/regions and the repo id may not be
           | actually sequential.
        
             | colechristensen wrote:
             | >following new repos and scanning them for leaked
             | credentials could be a negative
             | 
             | People do this. GitHub started doing it too so now you get
             | a nice email from them first instead of another kind of
             | surprise.
        
               | mdaniel wrote:
               | Email, bleh, I'm sure I'm not the only one who basically
               | /dev/null's emails from github about pearl-clutching
               | "security" but I wanted to point out that for _quite a
               | few_ providers they actually have an integration to
               | _revoke_ them if found in a public repo, which I think is
               | way more handy
               | 
               | https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-
               | scanning/sec...
               | 
               | and the list is way bigger than I recalled:
               | https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-
               | scanning/int...
        
               | colechristensen wrote:
               | You can turn those GitHub security warnings off if you
               | don't want them.
               | 
               | >quite a few providers they actually have an integration
               | to revoke them if found in a public repo, which I think
               | is way more handy
               | 
               | Yes I've also gotten an email from Amazon saying they
               | revoked a key someone inadvertently leaked (but so long
               | ago I only remember that it happened). I read my AWS
               | emails at least.
        
             | 4hg4ufxhy wrote:
             | What would be the issue with global lock? I think repo
             | creation is a very rare event when measured in computer
             | time.
        
             | progval wrote:
             | > but github may have a feed of new repos anyway?
             | 
             | Yes: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/repos/repos?apiVersion
             | =2022-... (you can filter to only show repositories created
             | since a given date).
        
               | tough wrote:
               | and using their obscure graphql api, you can do the same
               | for -new commits- across any repos.
               | 
               | they have some secret leaking infra for enterprise
        
           | xboxnolifes wrote:
           | Companies usually hide this type of information so
           | competitors have a harder time determining if they are
           | growing/shrinking/neutral.
        
             | dietr1ch wrote:
             | And engineers thinking of scale would usually try to steer
             | away from a sequential id because of self inflicted global
             | locking and hot spots.
        
             | blitzar wrote:
             | Companies usually hide this type of information so VC's /
             | stonk investors will give them more money.
        
         | cheschire wrote:
         | When your moat is a billion wide, you tend to walk around in
         | your underwear a bit more I guess.
        
           | 90s_dev wrote:
           | Excellent Diogenes quote reference.
        
             | sebastiennight wrote:
             | Do you mean a specific quote here? I couldn't find the
             | reference.
        
               | 90s_dev wrote:
               | The answer to that question is in the eye of the beholder
               | or something idk
        
           | NooneAtAll3 wrote:
           | unless you're youtube?
        
         | paulddraper wrote:
         | You can see the rate of creation of new users too.
         | 
         | Which is arguably even more interesting...
        
         | beaugunderson wrote:
         | and you can find the latest ID incredibly quickly using binary
         | search! (I used to track a bunch of websites' growth this way)
        
       | jaynate wrote:
       | The repo three comma club
        
         | badc0ffee wrote:
         | Tres commas
        
           | cheschire wrote:
           | Commits that go like \o/ this.
        
             | codethief wrote:
             | References for everyone else:
             | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wGy5SGTuAGI @ 4:28-6:30
        
             | morkalork wrote:
             | I still that line whenever I see a car that has doors that
             | go like o/ and not like o_
        
           | opello wrote:
           | but, tres comas; only one m :)
        
           | adsteel_ wrote:
           | I only realized last week that Tres Comas tequila is just a
           | bottle of 1800 Reposado with a different label
        
             | mkagenius wrote:
             | Tastes best when put on a keyboard
        
       | 9dev wrote:
       | Sigh. You can't make that shit up. I'm sure there's a witty
       | metaphor in there, somewhere...
        
       | 8organicbits wrote:
       | While we are doing cool GitHub repo IDs, the first is here:
       | 
       | https://api.github.com/repositories/1
       | 
       | https://github.com/mojombo/grit
        
         | mkagenius wrote:
         | The millionth one is "vim-scripts/nexus.vim"
         | 
         | The 1000th is missing.
        
         | dgellow wrote:
         | And the first commit:
         | https://github.com/mojombo/grit/commit/634396b2f541a9f2d58b0...
        
       | Aachen wrote:
       | Makes me wonder how many repositories exist in general, from all
       | the local Forgejo and Gitlab servers. Heck, include Subversion
       | and Mercurial and git's other friends (and foes!)
       | 
       | Did anyone make a search engine for these yet, so we'd be able to
       | get an estimate by searching for the word "a" or so?
       | 
       | (This always seemed like the big upside of centralised GitHub to
       | me: people can actually find your code. I've been thinking of
       | making a search since MS bought GH but didn't think I could do
       | the marketing aspects and so it would be a waste of effort and I
       | never did it. Recently I was considering whether this would be
       | worth revisiting, with the various projects I'm putting on
       | Codeberg, but maybe someone beat me to the punch)
        
         | mdaniel wrote:
         | Well, based on the API enumeration mentioned in sibling
         | comments, surely one doesn't have to estimate
         | 
         | https://docs.gitlab.com/api/projects/#list-all-projects (for
         | dumb reasons it seems GL calls them Projects, not Repositories)
         | 
         | https://codeberg.org/api/swagger#/repository/repoGetByID (that
         | was linked to by the Forgejo.org site, so presumably it's the
         | same for it and Codeberg) and its friend
         | https://gitea.com/api/swagger#/repository/repoGetByID
         | 
         | Heptapod is a "friendly fork" of GitLab CE so its API works the
         | same: https://heptapod.net/pages/faq#api-hgrc
         | 
         | and then I'd guess one would need to index the per-project
         | GitLab instances: Gnome, GNU (if they ever open theirs back
         | up), whatever's going on with Savannah, probably Sourceforge,
         | maybe sourcehut (assuming he doesn't have some political reason
         | to block you), etc
         | 
         | If I won the lottery, I'd probably bankroll a sourcegraph
         | instance (from back when they were Apache) across everything I
         | could get my hands upon, and donate snapshots of it to the
         | Internet Archive
        
         | progval wrote:
         | At Software Heritage, we listed 380M public repositories, 280M
         | of which are on Github: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/
         | 
         | Repository search is pretty limited so far: only full-text
         | search on URLs or in a small list of metadata files like
         | package.json.
        
       | 90s_dev wrote:
       | This is either staged,
       | 
       | or incredible commentary on _most github repos_ ,
       | 
       | having no purpose, never being realized, and even having given up
       | _dreaming_.
        
         | kristopolous wrote:
         | Honestly I think the plurality are by students, maybe even the
         | majority.
         | 
         | When I was a student I had to manually set up CVS pserver and
         | CVSWeb to collaborate with other students on assignments.
         | 
         | This is a bit easier by at least a few orders of magnitude.
        
         | MindTheAbstract wrote:
         | I really hope it's the latter, that would be quite brilliant
        
           | 90s_dev wrote:
           | I don't mean _intentionally_.
           | 
           | I mean maybe he made that repo because he'd given up on his
           | coding dreams. Almost.
           | 
           | That would be some interesting accidental meta commentary on
           | the state of things.
        
         | extraduder_ire wrote:
         | I think, by design, every commit in git is staged.
        
           | 90s_dev wrote:
           | Wow.
        
       | caleblloyd wrote:
       | Awesome! Only a little over a billion more to go before GitHub's
       | very own OpenAPI Spec can start overflowing int32 on repositories
       | too, just like it already does for workflows run IDs!
       | 
       | https://github.com/github/rest-api-description/issues/4511
        
         | bartread wrote:
         | The company where I did my stint as CTO I turned up, noticed
         | they were using 32-bit integers as primary keys on one of their
         | key tables that already had 1.3 billion rows and, at the rate
         | they were adding them, would overflow on primary key values
         | within months... so we ran a fairly urgent project to upgrade
         | the IDs to 64-bit to avoid the total meltdown that would have
         | ensued otherwise.
        
           | hobs wrote:
           | heh, that's happened at at least 5 companies I have worked at
           | - go to check the database, find - currency as floats,
           | hilarious indexes, integers gonna overflow, gigantic types
           | with nothing in them.
        
             | rudasn wrote:
             | I bet you haven't seen indeces on decimals though! Fun
             | times :)
        
               | azophy_2 wrote:
               | Just curious as someone with limited experience on this.
               | Whats wrong with it? decimal is consistent & predictable
               | (compared than float), so it shouldn't be that big of a
               | deal right? CMIIW
        
               | rudasn wrote:
               | Yeah, not a big deal but completely useless nonetheless
               | as you would never really query your table for just the
               | one decimal column (eg the price) but a couple more (eg
               | the category and the price) so you'd have a multi-column
               | index on those columns. The index on just the price
               | column never gets used.
        
               | cwbriscoe wrote:
               | What if you wanted to select "top 100 most expensive
               | products" or number of products between $0.01 and $10,
               | $10.01 and $100, $100.01 and $1000? Sure you could do a
               | full table scan on your products table on both queries
               | but an index on price would speed both queries up a lot
               | if you have a lot of products. Of course you have to
               | determine if the index would be used enough to make up
               | for the extra time on index update when the price changes
               | or products are added or deleted.
        
               | erulabs wrote:
               | Cheap solution, sure, add an index. But you're asking an
               | OLAP question question of an OLTP system. Questions like
               | that are best asked at least of an out-of-production read
               | replica or better an analytics db.
        
               | robertlagrant wrote:
               | I don't really understand this - what is an out of
               | production read replica? Why wouldn't it just go to a
               | production read replica?
               | 
               | And what is an "analytics db" in this context?
        
               | gkalin59 wrote:
               | You stream CDC events to have a 1 to 1 read replica in
               | something like Snowflake/Databricks where you can run all
               | kinds of OLAP workflows on this analytics db replica.
        
               | cwbriscoe wrote:
               | In the real world, people want cheap solutions and they
               | want it yesterday.
        
           | gchamonlive wrote:
           | What are the challenges of such projects? How many people are
           | usually involved? Does it incur downtimes or significant
           | technical challenges for either the infrastructure or the
           | codebase?
        
             | jiggawatts wrote:
             | Not the original commenter, but I've read through half a
             | dozen post-mortems about this kind of thing. The answer is:
             | yes. There's challenges and sometimes downtime and/or
             | breaking changes are inevitable.
             | 
             | For one, if your IDs are approaching the 2^31 signed
             | integer limit, then by definition, you have _nearly two
             | billion rows_ , which is a very big DB table! There are
             | only a handful of systems that can handle any kind of
             | change to that volume of data quickly. Everything you do to
             | it will either need hours of downtime or careful
             | orchestration of incremental/rolling changes. This issue
             | tends to manifest first on the "biggest" and hence most
             | important table in the business such as "sales entries" or
             | "user comments". It's never some peripheral thing that
             | nobody cares about.
             | 
             | Second, if you're using small integer IDs, that decision
             | was _probably_ motivated in part because you 're using
             | those integers as foreign keys and for making your
             | secondary indexes more efficient. GUIDs are "simpler" in
             | some ways but need 4x the data storage (assuming you're
             | using a clustered database like MySQL or SQL Server). Even
             | just the change from 32-bits to 64-bits doubles the size of
             | the storage in a lot of places. For 2 billion rows, this is
             | 8 GB more data _minimum_ , but is almost certainly north of
             | 100 GB across all tables and indexes.
             | 
             | Third, many database engines will refuse to establish
             | foreign key constraints if the types don't match. This can
             | force big-bang changes or very complex duplication of data
             | during the migration phase.
             | 
             | Fourth, this is a breaking change to all of your APIs, both
             | internal and external. Every ORM, REST endpoint, etc...
             | will have to be updated with a new major version. There's a
             | chance that all of your analytics, ETL jobs, etc... will
             | also need to be touched.
             | 
             | Fun times.
        
               | lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
               | > For one, if your IDs are approaching the 2^31 signed
               | integer limit, then by definition, you have nearly two
               | billion rows
               | 
               | Just wanted to nitpick this; this is not actually
               | definitively true. A failed insert in some systems will
               | increment the counter and deleting rows usually does not
               | allow the deleted ID to be re-used (new inserts use the
               | current counter). Of course, that is beside the point:
               | the typical case of a table approaching this limit is a
               | very large table.
        
               | lmm wrote:
               | It's actually fairly common to see this problem crop up
               | in systems that are using a database table as a queue
               | (which is a bad idea for many reasons, but people still
               | do it) in which case the number of live rows in the table
               | can be fairly small.
        
               | jamwil wrote:
               | If a SQLServer instance is killed unceremoniously it adds
               | 1000 to the pk increment.
        
               | jiggawatts wrote:
               | I'm trying not to imagine the poor SQL Server that has
               | crashed _one or two million times_ and hence pushed the
               | ID values into the billions!
        
               | jamwil wrote:
               | haha--somewhere out there it's crashing right now. Keep
               | it in your thoughts.
        
             | bartread wrote:
             | Changing the type of the column is no big deal per se,
             | except on a massive table it's a non-trivial operation, BUT
             | you also have to change the type in everything that touches
             | it, everywhere it's assigned or copied, everywhere it's
             | sent over the wire and deserialized where assumptions might
             | be made, any tests, and on, and on. And god help you if
             | you've got stuff like int.MaxValue having a special meaning
             | (we didn't in this context, fortunately).
             | 
             | Our hosting environment at that time was a data centre so
             | we were limited on storage, which complicated matters a
             | bit. Like ideally you'd create a copy of the table but with
             | a wider PK column and write to both tables, then migrate
             | your reads, etc., but we couldn't do that because the table
             | was massive and we didn't have enough space. Procuring more
             | drives was possible but took sometimes weeks - no just
             | dragging a slider in your cloud portal. And then of course
             | you'd have to schedule a maintenance window for somebody to
             | plug it in. It was absolutely archaic, especially when you
             | consider this was late 2017/early 2018.
             | 
             | You need multiple environments so you can do thorough
             | testing, which we barely had at that point, and because
             | every major system component was impacted, we had to
             | redeploy our entire platform. Also, because it was the PK
             | column affected, we couldn't do any kind of staged
             | migration or rollback without the project becoming much
             | more complex and taking a _lot_ longer - time we didn't
             | have due to the rate at which we were consuming 32-bit
             | integer values.
             | 
             | In the end it went off without a hitch, but pushing it live
             | was still a bit of a white knuckle moment.
        
               | robertlagrant wrote:
               | Well done. Unsung heroes keeping it all going, and unsung
               | villains who chose int32 in the first place long gone :-)
        
               | ipaddr wrote:
               | This comment can be reused when int64 is forced to change
               | into int128 or int255 in the future.
        
             | tengbretson wrote:
             | If you've written your services in JavaScript, going from
             | i32 to i64 means your driver is probably going return it as
             | a string (or a BigInt or some custom Decimal type), rather
             | than the IEEE754 number you were getting before. This means
             | you now need change your interfaces (both internal and
             | public-facing) to a string or some other safely
             | serializable representation. And if you are going to go
             | through all that trouble, you may as well take the
             | opportunity to just switch to some uuid strategy anyway.
             | 
             | The alternative is that you can monkey-patch the database
             | driver to parse the i64 id as an IEEE754 number anyway and
             | deal with this problem later when you overflow the
             | JavaScript max safe integer size (2^53), except when that
             | happens it will manifest in some really wacky ways, rather
             | than the db just refusing to insert a new row.
        
               | dietr1ch wrote:
               | Maybe you are better off moving to UUIDs then? It seems
               | that there's packages to make handling them easier, but
               | you'll still need a tiny hack to map old i32 Ids to some
               | UUID.
        
             | roberttod wrote:
             | I remember such a project, and due to our large and aging
             | TypeScript frontend projects it would have added a couple
             | of weeks to adjust all the types affected. All IDs in many
             | places deep in code caused thousands of errors from the
             | mismatch which was a nightmare. I can't remember exactly
             | why it was so tough to go through them all, but we were
             | under intense time pressure.
             | 
             | To speed things up we decided to correct the ID types for
             | the server response, which was key since they were
             | generated from protobuf. But we kept everything using
             | number type IDs everywhere else, even though they would
             | actually be strings, which would not cause many issues
             | because there ain't much reason to be doing numeric
             | operations on an ID, except the odd sort function.
             | 
             | I remember the smirk on my face when I suggested it to my
             | colleague and at the time we knew it was what made sense.
             | It must have been one of the dumbest solutions I've ever
             | thought of, but it allowed us to switch the type eventually
             | to string as we changed code, instead of converting the
             | entire repos at once. Such a Javascript memory that one :)
        
           | cyberax wrote:
           | The same story happened inside Amazon.
        
           | darkwater wrote:
           | Lived that with a MySQL table. The best thing is that the
           | table was eventually dismissed (long after the migration)
           | because the whole data model around it was basically wrong.
        
         | neomantra wrote:
         | A couple weeks ago there was some Lua community issues because
         | LuaRocks surpassed 65,535 packages.
         | 
         | There was a conflict between this and the LuaRocks
         | implementation under LuaJIT [1] [2], inflicting pain on a
         | narrow set of users as their CI/CD pipelines and personal
         | workflows failed.
         | 
         | It was resolved pretty quick, but interesting!
         | 
         | [1] https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues/1797
         | 
         | [2] https://github.com/openresty/docker-openresty/issues/276
        
       | Drblessing wrote:
       | Imagine if this was private. We would've lost out on this
       | glorious moment.
        
       | jonplackett wrote:
       | Holy shit, that's amazing.
        
       | Aachen wrote:
       | Reminds me of the 100 millionth OpenStreetMap changeset (commit).
       | A few people, myself included, were casually trying for it but in
       | the end it went to someone who wasn't trying and just busy
       | mapping Africa! Much more wholesome, seeing it with hindsight.
       | This person was also previously nominated for an OSM award. I
       | guess it helps that openstreetmap doesn't really allow for
       | creating crap, because it's all live in production, and that's
       | how the Nth commit is way more likely to be someone's random
       | whim? Either way, a fun achievement for Github :)
       | 
       | In case anyone cares to read more about the OSM milestone, the
       | official blog entry:
       | https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2021/02/25/100-million-edits-...
       | My write-up of changeset activity around the event:
       | https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/LucGommans/diary/395954
        
         | chneu wrote:
         | Your kind of comment is exactly why HN still rules. What a fun
         | story. Thanks for sharing
        
           | Aachen wrote:
           | Aww, thanks! I wasn't sure if I should go off-topic this much
           | so I'm happy to hear this!
        
         | ash_091 wrote:
         | A friend of mine spent an entire workday figuring out how to
         | ensure he created the millionth ticket in our help desk. Not
         | sure how he cracked it in the end but we had a little team
         | party to celebrate the achievement.
         | 
         | This was probably fifteen years ago. I feel like working in
         | tech was more fun back then.
        
           | darkwater wrote:
           | I wonder which is the latest ID today then...
        
           | deruta wrote:
           | I was involved in the 99,999th and the 100,000th one in my
           | FQA days.
           | 
           | We were being onboarded, they were just for demo and were
           | promptly deleted. No one cared about the Cool Numbers.
        
             | jpsouth wrote:
             | In my first job I raised JIRA-1337 and was pretty chuffed
             | with myself, being on a team of young, nerdy gamer type
             | folk. My manager not so much, they wanted to raise it (for
             | a meme?) but I was doing actual work rather than watching
             | numbers go up so that was quite satisfying when it was a
             | genuine defect.
        
       | lbeckman314 wrote:
       | > https://ohshitgit.com
        
         | hyperhopper wrote:
         | https://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/04/git-koans/
        
       | zaps wrote:
       | Respect to GitHub for committing to the bit
        
       | Lammy wrote:
       | check 'em https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dubs-guy-check-em
        
       | CGamesPlay wrote:
       | Probably created via a script that just repeatedly checked
       | https://api.github.com/repositories/999999999 until it showed up,
       | and then created a new repository. Since repositories can be
       | modified, could have even given it some buffer and created a
       | bunch of repos, just delete the ones that don't get the right
       | number. [append] Looking at the author's other repo created
       | yesterday, I'm betting "yep" was _supposed_ to be the magic
       | number, and  "shit" was an admission of missing the mark.
       | 
       | Does anyone remember D666666 from Facebook? It was a massive
       | codemod; the author used a technique similar to this one to get
       | that particular number.
        
         | topherPedersen wrote:
         | You solved the mystery!
        
         | notfed wrote:
         | Or...not. Why are you assuming this guy purposely grabbed the
         | repo?
        
           | CGamesPlay wrote:
           | Mostly just to share an approach to solving the "problem" of
           | getting memorable numbers from a pool of sequential IDs.
           | 
           | But given that this user doesn't have activity very often,
           | and created two repositories as the number was getting close,
           | it feels likely that it was deliberate. I could be wrong!
        
       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | I wish I were still at Apple. Probably most people here know that
       | Apple uses an internal tool called "Radar" since, forever. Each
       | "Radar" has an ID (bug #) associated with it.
       | 
       | Radars that were bug #1,000,000, etc. were kind of special.
       | Unless someone screwed up (and let down the whole team) they were
       | usually faux-Radars with lots of inside jokes, etc.
       | 
       | Pulling up one was enough since the Radar could reference other
       | Radars ... and generally you would go down the rabbit hole at
       | that point enjoying the ride.
       | 
       | I was a dumbass not to capture (heck, even print) a few of those
       | when I had the opportunity.
        
         | xmprt wrote:
         | > I was a dumbass not to capture (heck, even print) a few of
         | those when I had the opportunity.
         | 
         | On the other hand, given how Apple deals with confidential
         | data, you probably wouldn't want to be caught exfiltrating
         | internal documents however benign they are.
        
         | msarnoff wrote:
         | #SnakesOnARadar
        
         | bjackman wrote:
         | At Google, the monorepo VCS has monotonic IDs like this for
         | changes. Unfortunately a few years ago when approaching some
         | round number, the system was DOS'd by people running scripts
         | trying to snag the ID. So now it skips IDs in the vicinity of
         | big round numbers :(
         | 
         | I think there's probably a lesson in there about schema
         | design...
        
       | almosthere wrote:
       | facepalm
        
       | bigbuppo wrote:
       | Aww, he renamed it from shit to historic-repo.
        
       | Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
       | The repo seems to have gotten renamed and now redirects to
       | https://github.com/AasishPokhrel/repository/
       | 
       | Lame. :-(
        
         | Sohcahtoa82 wrote:
         | It was renamed back! :-D
        
       | nojs wrote:
       | Haha, he's renamed it from "shit" to "repository" which makes the
       | comments less funny
        
         | carlhjerpe wrote:
         | Readme still has shit in it
        
       | jonasdegendt wrote:
       | Check 'em! Sick dubs :^)
        
       | ChoGGi wrote:
       | That's a perfect one billion repo.
        
       | hoppp wrote:
       | Nerd humor is funny as shit
        
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