Thursday, November 5, 2026 Today’s Paper
Log in Join free
Vol. I · No. 38 Texas Edition
Thursday, Nov 5
Texas first. Then the world.
Always free Updated 1 minute ago
Read. React. Discuss.
Tech

Show HN: HackerRepos – HackerTube for repos mentioned on HN

By mmvvaa 3 min read 0 views 0 comments

Karpathy posted hackertube.org 5 days ago, and mentioned that it took him 2 hours to build. A day after another fellow posted hackerbooks.org https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50326821, and made it to the top of HN. Some hours after someone else made it to the top of HN with the same for wikis: https://wikihack.netlify.app/
I found particularly interesting the "Trends" section on https://hackerbooks.org/That night, I set out to build something similar but for Repos.So I built https://HackerRepos.fyi. There are 57,316 repositories and 667,508 mentions indexed.I originally made three main sections: Top of all time, Most Recommended, and Trends - per HackerBooks inspiration.It looked/felt good, so I wanted to take it further.I am a big fan of https://github.com/trending, and frequent it often, looking for inspiration. So I built the "Trending now section" https://hackerrepos.fyi/#/trending section. Trending now gives in a quick colour-coded sentiment snapshot of the repos trending on HN, using a grid/map in the style of https://finviz.com/.When you click on a repo, it gives you a summary of the chatter, a colour-coder tag (Favorable, Critical, Debated, Informational), a graph of…

Hacker News (Newest) Original story · HackerRepos.fyi
Read the full story

Discussion (0)

No comments yet. Start the conversation!