OpenClaw Surpasses React to Become the Most-Starred Software Project on GitHub

https://www.star-history.com/blog/openclaw-surpasses-react-most-starred-software

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whit537•1h ago

Yes, stars are a popularity contest. No open source project has ever become this popular this quickly.

chromehearts•1h ago

I don't know but this AI wrapper tool will never create something life changing imo..

But that stargraph is ridiculous .. absolutely crazy

halicarnassus•1h ago

Maybe a bunch of AI agents ganged up on starring it to help a fellow AI out?

monax•1h ago

How many of theses are just OpenClaw agents staring the repo ?

GaggiX•39m ago

Phase one of the self-replicating machine (/s or not I don't know anymore).

kmaitreys•1h ago

Relevant

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36151140

sschueller•1h ago

What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

jcgrillo•1h ago

You give it your etrade login and retire early.

cm2187•57m ago

Retire under a bridge...

silversmith•59m ago

I guess we are just boring and/or unimaginative. I don't get that many communications per day to require an abstraction level between me and the messages. The daily automations I need are more efficiently carried out by home assistant / n8n. I'm not in a position where I need automated briefs on every new company started in my area. I genuinely don't see how it could benefit me.

mercwear•56m ago

Here are some of the things I did with it while running locally: - Ask it to perform a scan of your local network and give you advice on output - Tell it to login to various computers and re-boot them (I have a few servers I host and setup openclaw to have a user on them) - Replace web search by asking openclaw

It's neat but the token use is pretty inefficient and security of course is a mess but it's been fun to play with.

I am messing with NanoClaw now and it's pretty much the same but only support Claude (uses code to do everything)

dmd•50m ago

I don't see how any of those require a constant-heartbeat loop. Those all work just fine in claude code / cowork.

vanillameow•45m ago

And in reality most of what does need a heartbeat loop can also easily be automated by just asking Claude to set up a cronjob. I think genuinely the most "novel" thing about something like OpenClaw is just that it "feels" more like a "real entity", like a partner rather than a chatbot, and for some reason that resonates with people. Whether that's by itself kind of a huge red flag or kind of a nothingburger, everyone has to decide for themselves.

swader999•48m ago

It's useful for clearing out Mac inventory before the launch this week.

qoez•38m ago

There is none. It's just a way for coders to feel or be able to say they "work with AI" imo. Same with doing light wrapper coding to do agents stuff. The real AI work is on actual math and ML with the internet scale data, but only four big companies does that and this is the closest regular coders can get.

nicbou•37m ago

There is a thread from February with more credible use cases from real users. As someone said, it does what everyone expected Siri to do by now.

hobofan•31m ago

Which one? None of those that came up when I searched were really containing a lot of real uses. Both top threads[0][1] don't really contain much of substance.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838946 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147183

sumeno•37m ago

Separating fools from their money and data

arewethereyeta•11m ago

you're talking about a free tool you know that right?

Jcampuzano2•35m ago

I don't doubt that there are people using it for legitimate stuff, but I'd wager the vast majority just set it up for the hype and to feel in the "in crowd".

I set it up, and had it do a few things, then decided its too risky after seeing some of the drastic failures it had caused some people.

Sure I understand you can sandbox it and all, but even then I couldn't think of much stuff I wouldn't want to do myself just nor justify the cost to run it.

sodapopcan•23m ago

It useful for producing content about how you're using it.

lm28469•16m ago

Wannabe Tony Stark love these gadgets, and there are a lot of them out there. Just look at what tech content is trending on youtube &co these days, we got gangrened by influencers like most other hobbies/lucrative industries

ZiiS•1h ago

My React website can't star React on GitHub.

ch4s3•44m ago

Not with that attitude it can't!

egeozcan•37m ago

Now I have this terrible idea:

const openClawInstance = useOpenClaw(config);

Did anyone already vibe-code such silliness? If not, I want to give it a try.

ch4s3•15m ago

I'd love to read about that going super sideways. Bonus points if you run it in a webworker like those crypto miners.

podgorniy•32m ago

__ but everyone knows about facebook though __

React popularity is also a phenomenon closely tied to popularity of the fb

hobofan•28m ago

Maybe for the first 2-3 years. The association to Meta is barely mentioned (even on the official page) nowadays.

xnx•57m ago

Is staring the repo the "hello world" for a new OpenClaw install? #growthhack

croes•50m ago

The final proof that Github stars are a useless metric

japhyr•34m ago

I have a friend who's fond of saying, "GitHub stars are great for measuring the number of GitHub stars a project has."

SecretDreams•8m ago

Well, they're not wrong!

amelius•33m ago

they just need better captchas.

thomasingalls•16m ago

Touch this grass to prove you're not a robot

silon42•19m ago

They are now for this project... should be hidden.

12ajsh•49m ago

The ruling party in East Germany always had 99% of the popular vote.

Steinberger and his VC club on Twitter were so salty about HN not understanding his grand creation that something needed to be done.

mannanj•35m ago

Didn't they employ astro-turfing, too

goodmodule•45m ago

even more GitHub stars after this post in 3 2 1

root_axis•35m ago

I don't believe the activity on this repo is legitimate by any means.

amelius•34m ago

They probably used a claw to increase the ranking.

jsheard•29m ago

The whole repo must be absolutely swarming with agents, just look at the sheer rate of issues and pull requests. There's 6 new PRs in the last 10 minutes at the time of writing. It's not much of a stretch to assume the stars are also inorganic.

ekianjo•25m ago

By design, with llm agents and all, surely not

hansonkd•23m ago

Agents will dominate the internet and open source code in a few years.

lm28469•19m ago

I'm convinced more than 50% of "human" web traffic is already automated, blog posts, comments, social media, &c.

mister_mort•8m ago

"Dead Internet Theory" is, even if it wasn't real 5 years ago, now hyperstitioned into truthfulness as the days go on.

sigmoid10•19m ago

Geniune online user sentiment has died out a long time ago. If you're still basing any opinion or decision on what other "people" voted or commented online, you're easy prey for the algorithmic manipulation machine.

indigodaddy•33m ago

And I still would not touch it even with my mother in law's 100 foot stick

wolvesechoes•29m ago

Totally grassroot

liveoneggs•28m ago

in what sense is this software not a virus?

Upvoter33•24m ago

Honestly this thread was been one of the funniest HN threads I've seen. So much gold in here - for which I thank you all.

"My React website can't star React"

"in what sense is this software not a virus?"

"GitHub stars are great for measuring the number of GitHub stars a project has"

etc.

All gold.

alansaber•18m ago

Well deserved, the best written piece of software ever.

sgalbincea•16m ago

This is going to be more profitable for the public AI companies than cell phone minutes and SMS limits were for the telcos. It's a brilliant business move, given that hardly anyone is competent enough to recognize the gross inefficiencies in the code and prompts.

polytely•11m ago

when i use claude opus via opencode/openrouter i'm sometimes suprised by how quickly costs can get out of hand. What are the costs of running openClaw, it seems like it would get crazy expensive crazy fast?

laweijfmvo•11m ago

Does this mean that the creator of OpenClaw qualifies for that free Claude Max trial?

mccoyb•7m ago

GitHub has a bot problem: https://github.com/trending

h1fra•7m ago

This is going to be the most starred and unused repo very quickly. The hype is already fading, as expected

bwb•4m ago

I'm blown away by the comments. This is a cool project someone created with clear warnings about its current state (beta), and the community is being utterly disrespectful. They are building something that many people find useful/fascinating/intriguing/fun.

Come on HN.

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