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26points
11comments
#1,076of 2,272 in 2014
Top 48%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Idea is great and makes the commenter happy
From 2 comments
This is so great. I tweeted this idea a few months ago with the hopes that someone would make it. I doubt you guys saw it but it does makes me happy that this exists.
jw989 on HNNice work!
LERobot on HN
Objections
Picks mostly large, well-known projects rather than random ones
From 1 comment
Is this truly random? The first ten or so that I clicked through seemed to be HUGE open source projects like modernizer, cocoapods, less, etc. Not just random projects by random…
shortstuffsushi on HN
Submit page requires a Twitter account
From 1 comment
So I cannot submit without having a Twitter account?
m90 on HN
Requests
Filter projects by language
From 1 comment
Maybe add an option to filter on languages ? As a Go user I am just mildly interested in libs for js (as example). But I would be interested in passing some time flipping through…
Gys on HN
Show source code or open source the site itself
From 1 comment
Did you decide to open source these projects? We love the idea and would love to see how it works. Thanks!
graham1776 on HN
Questions
Is the selection truly random or hand-picked?
From 2 comments
Is this truly random? The first ten or so that I clicked through seemed to be HUGE open source projects like modernizer, cocoapods, less, etc. Not just random projects by random…
shortstuffsushi on HNIt appears to be from this list: http://www.randomgit.org/projects
finnn on HN
Why does the CSS of the sister site look broken?
From 1 comment
What happened to that site's CSS?
spb on HN