About Hacker GitHub

Hacker GitHub ranks the GitHub repositories that come up most on Hacker News, across every story and comment since GitHub launched in 2008. It is in the spirit of HackerBooks and Wikihack, but for code.

How it counts

• A mention is one HN story or comment that links to github.com/owner/repo. A deeper path, such as an issue or a file, counts for its repo. One item counts once per repo, however often it repeats the link.
• Deleted and dead items are ignored. GitHub's own pages (/blog, /features, /orgs …) are not repos and are ignored.
• Repos with fewer than 3 mentions are left out. Repos that GitHub reports as moved or renamed are merged into their current name; repos that no longer exist are dropped.
• Hidden gems ranks repos linked by at least 8 different HN accounts by people × 1000 ÷ (stars + 1000): many people point to it, few have starred it. People rather than mentions, so self-promotion does not count.

Data

HN items come from the public ClickHouse playground's live copy of Hacker News. Stars, languages and descriptions come from the GitHub API. The snapshot is rebuilt daily.

This snapshot: 44,192 repos, 384,444 mentions, built 2026-11-02 10:57 UTC.

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